Focusing on the application of spatiotemporal random field models, this updated edition delves into their relevance across various scientific disciplines, including ocean, earth, and atmospheric sciences. It also addresses spatiotemporal statistics and geostatistics, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of theoretical foundations and practical applications in these fields.
This book offers a comprehensive study of Integrative Problem-Solving (IPS), merging advanced mathematics, scientific methods, and philosophical insights. It emphasizes the importance of understanding 'Decadence' in addressing environmental issues and highlights the role of stochastic reasoning in navigating complex, multidisciplinary problems.
Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
If you want to achieve something, if you want to write a book, paint a picture, be sure the center of your existence is somewhere else and that it’s solidly grounded; only then will you be able to keep your cool and laugh at the attacks that are bound to come. ” P. Feyerabend This is a book about interdisciplinary public health reasoning and epidemic m- th elling, in general, and the study of the infamous 14 century AD Black Death d- aster, in particular. We focus on the intellectual context in which epidemic mod- ling takes place, in a way that accounts for the present-day interdisciplinary and multicultural trends in scientific inquiry. Like most scientific fields, public health research defines itself based on knowledge, which raises serious epistemic and cognitive issues. Therefore, we maintain that for public health modellers to fu- tion in an often complex environment, they should be aware of the divergent c- ceptions of knowledge and the technological changes that these imply, the mul- ple sources of information commonly available and their reliability, the different styles of thinking adopted by the disciplines involved, and the importance of - veloping sound interdisciplinary knowledge integration skills.
Advanced Functions for Field-Based Applications
CD-ROM contains: BMElib, a set of programs for spatiotemporal geostatistics in Temporal GIS written in MatLab (version 5.3 and later).