Chaos and catastrophe theories:
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Main Author: Brown, Courtney (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications © 1995
Series:Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-107
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 77 pages)
ISBN:0585212104
9780585212104
9781412983624
1412983622
0803958471
9780803958470

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