Proceedings of the First US/Japan Conference on the Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: An Informational Approach : Volume 3 Engineering and Scientific Applications

These three volumes comprise the proceedings of the US/Japan Conference, held in honour of Professor H. Akaike, on the `Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: an Informational Approach'. The major theme of the conference was the implementation of statistical modeling through an informational approach to complex, real-world problems. __Volume 1__ contains papers which deal with the __Theory and Methodology____of Time Series Analysis__. Volume 1 also contains the text of the Banquet talk by E. Parzen and the keynote lecture of H. Akaike. __V____olume 2__ is devoted to the general topic of __Multivariate Statistical____Modeling__, and __Volume 3__ contains the papers relating to __Engineering____and Scientific Applications__. For all scientists whose work involves statistics. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Summary of Contributed Papers to Volume 3....Pages 1-25 Implications of Informational Point of View on the Development of Statistical Science....Pages 27-38 From Comparison Density to Two Sample Analysis....Pages 39-56 Statistical Identification and Optimal Control of Thermal Power Plants....Pages 57-79 Applications of Auto Regressive Model to Control Ship’s Motions and Marine Engine....Pages 81-104 Statistical Models for Earthquake Occurrence: Clusters, Cycles and Characteristic Earthquakes....Pages 105-136 Seismological Applications of Statistical Methods for Point-Process Modelling....Pages 137-163 One Channel At-A-Time Multichannel Autoregressive Modeling of Stationary and Nonstationary Time Series....Pages 165-192 Separation of Spin Synchronized Signals Using a Bayesian Approach....Pages 193-215 The Local Linearization Filter with Application to Nonlinear System Identifications....Pages 217-240 Inference of Evolutionary Trees from DNA and Protein Sequence Data....Pages 241-248 New Structure Criteria in Group Method of Data Handling....Pages 249-266 The Use of the Kullback-Leibler Distance for Learning in Neural Binary Classifiers....Pages 267-292 Likelihood Estimation of Directional Interaction....Pages 293-313 New Approach to Optimization of Stable Estimation....Pages 315-340 Back Matter....Pages 341-346 These three volumes comprise the proceedings of the US/Japan Conference, held in honour of Professor H. Akaike, on the `Frontiers of Statistical Modeling: an Informational Approach'. The major theme of the conference was the implementation of statistical modeling through an informational approach to complex, real-world problems. Volume 1 contains papers which deal with the Theory and Methodology of Time Series Analysis . Volume 1 also contains the text of the Banquet talk by E. Parzen and the keynote lecture of H. Akaike. V olume 2 is devoted to the general topic of Multivariate Statistical Modeling , and Volume 3 contains the papers relating to Engineering and Scientific Applications . For all scientists whose work involves statistics.