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Bradley / Meek Matrices and Society
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5853-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Matrix Algebra and Its Applications in the Social Sciences
E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5853-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Matrices offer some of the most powerful techniques in modem mathematics. In the social sciences they provide fresh insights into an astonishing variety of topics. Dominance matrices can show how power struggles in offices or committees develop; Markov chains predict how fast news or gossip will spread in a village; permutation matrices illuminate kinship structures in tribal societies. All these invaluable techniques and many more are explained clearly and simply in this wide-ranging book.
Originally published in 1986.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FrontMatter, pg. 1
Contents, pg. 5
Preface, pg. 7
1. Matrices and How to Manipulate Them, pg. 13
2. Matrix Inversion, pg. 30
3. The Ins and Outs of Economic Planning, pg. 42
4. Matrices and Matrimony in Tribal Societies, pg. 61
5. Dominance in Coops and Courts, pg. 79
6. The Simple Mathematics of Markov Chains, pg. 92
7. Models of Mobility, pg. 106
8. The Mathematics of Absorbing Markov Chains, pg. 122
9 ‘Everywhere Man Is in Chains’, pg. 130
10. The Seven Ages of Man and Population Problems, pg. 149
11. Playing Games in Theory, pg. 173
12. Magic, Fishing and Farming — Some Applications of Constant-sum Games Theory, pg. 194
13. Conflict or Co-operation, pg. 207
Epilogue and Further Reading, pg. 231
