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Evolutionary statistical procedures. An evolutionary computation approach to statistical procedures designs and applications. (English) Zbl 1378.62005

Statistics and Computing (Cham). Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-16217-6/hbk; 978-3-642-16218-3/ebook). xi, 276 p. (2011).
Publisher’s description: This proposed text appears to be a good introduction to evolutionary computation for use in applied statistics research. The authors draw from a vast base of knowledge about the current literature in both the design of evolutionary algorithms and statistical techniques. Modern statistical research is on the threshold of solving increasingly complex problems in high dimensions, and the generalization of its methodology to parameters whose estimators do not follow mathematically simple distributions is underway. Many of these challenges involve optimizing functions for which analytic solutions are infeasible. Evolutionary algorithms represent a powerful and easily understood means of approximating the optimum value in a variety of settings. The proposed text seeks to guide readers through the crucial issues of optimization problems in statistical settings and the implementation of tailored methods (including both stand-alone evolutionary algorithms and hybrid crosses of these procedures with standard statistical algorithms like Metropolis-Hastings) in a variety of applications. This book would serve as an excellent reference work for statistical researchers at an advanced graduate level or beyond, particularly those with a strong background in computer science.

MSC:

62-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics
62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics
62J12 Generalized linear models (logistic models)
62H30 Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)
62K05 Optimal statistical designs
62M10 Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH)
68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence

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