Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information

By: Roy Frieden (Editor), Robert A. Gatenby (Editor)

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"Sustainability" is often used in a qualitative sense. However, there is at present a great need to quantitatively measure (and monitor) its many qualitative aspects in real systems. Real systems are regarded as sustainable if they can maintain their current, desirable productivity and character without creating unfavorable condi- tions elsewhere or in the future [1-4]. Sustainability therefore incorporates both concern for the future of the current system (temporal sustainability) and concern about the degree to which some areas and cultures of the planet are improved at the expense of other areas and cultures (spatial sustainability). That is, sustainability is to hold over both space and time. Sustainability encompasses many disciplines. For example, economic systems are not sustainable if they degrade their natural resource base and impoverish some sectors of the human population [5, 6]. Indices are needed that will measure sustainability through time, and over space, at several scales. These indices must also have the ability to aggregate the many disciplinary facets of sustainability, often incorporatedthrough a large number of environmental, social, and economic variables. Such a multidisciplinary dynamic system can be regarded as sustainable if it maintains a desirable steady state or regime', including fluctuations that are desirable (such as those that respond to natural disturbances [8]).

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"Roy Frieden has been exploring the consequences of studying physical phenomena on the basis of Fisher information and extreme physical information ... . therefore wish to emphasize that the truly original feature of this book ... is precisely its broad coverage; its demonstration that such a simple principle, easily grasped, is capable of yielding valuable results in such a wide range of fields of enquiry. I found Frieden's earlier books immensely original and intellectually thrilling and this one adds yet more weight to that opinion." (P. W. Hawkes, www.amazon.com, October, 2007)

"I personally have used and exploited the Fisher information theme in numerous papers related to quantum mechanics and relativity, in particular via relations of FI to the quantum potential. I would even say that this theme seems to have 'cosmic significance' and in the present arena of information technology, processing, retrieval, and distortion the book should be considered as must reading." (Robert Carroll, www.amazon.com, October, 2007)

"The book begins with an introduction by Frieden, which covers Fisher information and its uses when employing the EPI approach. ... This fascinating book is well organized, written in a careful and systematic way, and contains much new material. It will be useful to those interested in information technology (IT), processing, retrieval, and distortion. It is an excellent source of information for the study and research of exploratory data analysis." (P. R. Parthasarathy, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (8), August, 2008)

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Research & Information Information theory Cybernetics & Systems Theory Mathematics Calculus & Mathematical Analysis Computing & I.T.Databases Data Capture & Analysis Computer Science Artificial Intelligence

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Contributor Details	p. vii
Introduction to Fisher Information: Its Origin, Uses, and Predictions	p. 1
Mathematical Tools	p. 3
A Tutorial on Fisher Information	p. 8
Introduction to Source Fisher Information J	p. 21
Extreme Physical Information (EPI)	p. 23
Getting the Source Information J for a Given Scenario	p. 32
Information Game	p. 34
Predictions of the EPI Approach	p. 38
Financial Economics from Fisher Information	p. 42
Constructing Probability Density Functions on Price Fluctuation	p. 42
Yield Curve Statics and Dynamics	p. 50
Information and Investment	p. 64
Growth Characteristics of Organisms	p. 74
Information in Living Systems: A Survey	p. 74
Applications of IT and EPI to Carcinogenesis	p. 94
Appendix A: Derivation of EPI Power Law Solution	p. 115
Information and Thermal Physics	p. 119
Connections Between Thermal and Information Physics	p. 120
Hamiltonian Systems	p. 123
The Place of A Fisher Thermal Physics	p. 131
Modern Approaches to Statistical Mechanics	p. 134
Fisher Thermodynamics	p. 138
The Grad Approach in Ten Steps	p. 144
Connecting Excited Solutions of the Fisher-SWE to Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics	p. 145
Parallel Information Phenomena of Biology and Astrophysics	p. 155
Corresponding Quarter-Power Laws of Cosmology and Biology	p. 155
Quantum Basis for Systems Exhibiting Population Growth	p. 172
Encryption of Covert Information Through a Fisher Game	p. 181
Summary	p. 181
Embedding Covert Information in a Statistical Distribution	p. 191
Inference of the Host Distribution Using Fisher Information	p. 194
Implementation of Encryption and Decryption Procedures	p. 203
Extension of the Encryption Strategy	p. 214
Summary of Concepts	p. 215
Applications of Fisher Information to the Management of Sustainable Environmental Systems	p. 217
Summary	p. 217
Introduction	p. 218
Fisher Information Theory	p. 219
Probability Law on State Variable	p. 222
Evaluating the Information	p. 224
Dynamic Order	p. 225
Dynamic Regimes and Fisher Information	p. 226
Evaluation of Fisher Information	p. 227
Applications to Model Systems	p. 229
Applications to Real Systems	p. 237
Summary	p. 243
Fisher Information in Ecological Systems	p. 245
Predicting Susceptibility to Population Cataclysm	p. 245
Finding the Mass Occurrence Law For Living Creatures	p. 256
Derivation of Power Laws of Nonliving and Living Systems	p. 267
Sociohistory: An Information Theory of Social Change	p. 285
Summary	p. 285
Social Cybernetics	p. 292
Developing a Formal Theory of Sociohistory	p. 296
Sociocultural Dynamics	p. 307
The Paradigm of Sociohistory	p. 309
Exploring the Dynamic of Cultural Disposition	p. 321
The Sociocultural Propositions of EPI	p. 325
An Illustrative Application of EPI to Sociocultural Dynamics	p. 325
A Case Illustration: Postcolonial Iran	p. 330
Overview	p. 334
References	p. 337
Index	p. 357
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