Robustness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robustness write by Lars Peter Hansen. This book was released on 2016-06-28. Robustness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the model completely. But what should a decision maker do if the model cannot be trusted? Lars Hansen and Thomas Sargent, two leading macroeconomists, push the field forward as they set about answering this question. They adapt robust control techniques and apply them to economics. By using this theory to let decision makers acknowledge misspecification in economic modeling, the authors develop applications to a variety of problems in dynamic macroeconomics. Technical, rigorous, and self-contained, this book will be useful for macroeconomists who seek to improve the robustness of decision-making processes.
Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems
Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems write by Andreas Wagner. This book was released on 2013-10-24. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems tackles this perplexing paradox. The book explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. Andreas Wagner looks at this problem from the ground up, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms. He then develops an evolutionary explanation for robustness. Wagner shows how evolution by natural selection preferentially finds and favors robust solutions to the problems organisms face in surviving and reproducing. Such robustness, he argues, also enhances the potential for future evolutionary innovation. Wagner also argues that robustness has less to do with organisms having plenty of spare parts (the redundancy theory that has been popular) and more to do with the reality that mutations can change organisms in ways that do not substantively affect their fitness. Unparalleled in its field, this book offers the most detailed analysis available of all facets of robustness within organisms. It will appeal not only to biologists but also to engineers interested in the design of robust systems and to social scientists concerned with robustness in human communities and populations.
Characterizing the Robustness of Science
Characterizing the Robustness of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Characterizing the Robustness of Science write by Léna Soler. This book was released on 2012-03-23. Characterizing the Robustness of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since all these notions, and that of robustness in particular, are connected to fundamental issues, which concern nothing less than the very nature of science and its specificity with respect to other human practices, the nature of rationality and of scientific progress; and science’s claim to be a truth-conducive activity. This book offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the problem of robustness, and in general, that of the reliability of science, based on several detailed case studies and on philosophical essays inspired by the so-called practical turn in philosophy of science.
Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research
Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research write by Eric Neumayer. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This highly accessible book presents robustness testing as the methodology for conducting quantitative analyses in the presence of model uncertainty.
Breeding for robustness in cattle
Breeding for robustness in cattle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breeding for robustness in cattle write by Marija Klopcic. This book was released on 2023-09-04. Breeding for robustness in cattle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past decade has revealed unfavourable trends in e.g. fertility, udder health and locomotion in some major dairy cattle breeds due to a large increase in production and insufficient consideration of functional traits in the breeding goals. Such unfavourable trends in some functional traits increase costs. Additionally, the enlargement of herds leads to less available labour time per individual cow. This asks for cows that are easy to handle. At the same time, society is demanding a higher welfare standard of animals. These contradicting developments have increased the desire for so called more robust animals. Robustness can be defined as 'the ability to maintain homeostasis in commonly accepted and sustainable herds of the near future'; or 'the ability of the cow to function well in the environment she lives in as well as in a wide range of climates and production systems'. This book contains a series of articles (26) dealing with the concept of robustness, including aspects like evolution, genetics, environment, animal health and welfare, and integrity. Besides the major functional traits also the links to energy balance, hot climatic conditions, and the attitude and input of stakeholders towards robustness as part of the breeding program are discussed. This book is the first attempt to summarise the available knowledge concerning this topic in cattle, making this book unique. The contributions are from authors of 16 countries from all over the world. However, the focus is presently on farm animal level, while in future robustness of the whole production system may also require additional attention.
