Probability, statistics and optimisation : a tribute to Peter Whittle

Partial table of contents: PROBABILITY Probability Vicit Expectation (D. Stirzaker) The Random-Cluster Model (G. Grimmett) Fractal Dynamics of Eden Clusters (J. Hammersley) APPLIED PROBABILITY Threshold Phenomena in Epidemic Theory (A. Barbour) On the Interaction of Unreliable Routes (I. Mitrani & P. Wright) Large Deviation and Fluid Approximations in Control of Stochastic Systems (R. Weber) TIME SERIES ANALYSIS The Whittle Likelihood and Frequency Estimation (E. Hannan) Comments on Prediction by Nonlinear Least-Square Methods (H. Tong) NEURAL NETS AND COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS Network Methods in Statistics (B. Ripley) Monte-Carlo Likelihood in Genetic Analysis (E. Thompson) STATISTICS How to Look at Objects in a 5-Dimensional Shape Space II: Looking at Diffusions (D. Kendall) Applications of Quadratic Programming in Statistics (B. Brown & C. Goodall) OPTIMISATION OF NETWORK FLOW Optimisation of Flows in Networks Over Time (E. Anderson & A. Philpott) Optimal Routeing in Loss Networks (F. Kelly) OPTIMISATION OVER TIME Indices on Thin Ice (J. Gittins) A New Formula for the Deviation Matrix (A. Hordijk & F. Spieksma) Index.