Statistical Physics: An Advanced Approach with Applications

By Josef Honerkamp

Book Overview

Statistical Physics is more than Statistical Mechanics.- Part I: Modeling of Statistical Systems.- Random Variables: Fundamentals of Probability Theory and Statistics.- Random Variables in State Space: Classical Statistical Mechanics of Fluids.- Random Fields: Textures and Classical Statistical Mechanics of Spin Systems.- Time-Dependent Random Variables: Classical Stochastic Processes.- Quantum Random Systems.- Changes of External Conditions.- Part II: Analysis of Statistical Systems.- Estimation of Parameters.- Signal Analysis: Estimation of Spectra.- Estimators Based on a Probability Distribution for the Parameters.- Identification of Stochastic Models from Observations.- Estimating the Parameters of a Hidden Stochastic Model.- Statistical Tests and Classification Methods.- Appendix: Random Number Generation for Simulating Realizations of Random Variables.- Problems.- Hints and Solutions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642443850
• ISBN13: 9783642443855
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"