Chaos and catastrophe theories:
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1. Verfasser: Brown, Courtney (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications © 1995
Schriftenreihe:Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-107
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76)
What is chaos? How can it be measured? How are the models estimated? What is catastrophe? How is it modelled? How are the models estimated? These questions are the focus of this volume
1. Working with deterministic mathematical models -- The argument in favor of the deterministic approach -- Part I: 2. What is chaos? -- Necessary conditions for chaos -- Characteristics of chaos -- 3. Measuring chaos -- Lyapunov characteristic exponents -- Fourier analysis -- Phase space reconstruction of an attractor using data -- The spatial correlation test -- 4. Estimating chaos models -- The problem of step size -- Comparing the model's predicted values to the data -- The future of chaotic studies in the social sciences -- An alternative approach for maps -- Part II: 5. What is a catastrophe? -- Placing the cusp in the range of the data -- 6. Strategies for specifying catastrophe models -- 7. Estimating catastrophe models
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 77 pages)
ISBN:0585212104
9780585212104
9781412983624
1412983622
0803958471
9780803958470

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