Records : mathematical theory / Valery B. Nevzorov.
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- Physical Description:
- x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, [2001]
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- Part 1. Order Statistics 5
- Lecture 2. Order Statistics and Their Distributions 5
- Lecture 3. Three Classical Representations for Order Statistics 10
- Lecture 4. Markov Property and Conditional Independence of Order Statistics 15
- Lecture 5. Order Statistics for Nonstationary Sequences 18
- Lecture 6. Moments of Order Statistics 21
- Lecture 7. Moments of Order Statistics (continued) 26
- Lecture 8. Asymptotic Distributions of the Middle Order Statistics 32
- Lecture 9. Asymptotic Distributions of the Middle Order Statistics (continued) 38
- Lecture 10. Asymptotic Distributions of Maxima 42
- Lecture 11. Domains of Attraction of the Limiting Distributions of Extremes 47
- Lecture 12. Some Topics Related to the Distribution of Extremes 50
- Part 2. Record Times and Record Values 55
- Lecture 13. Maxima and Records 55
- Lecture 14. Distributions of Record Times 59
- Lecture 15. Distributions of Record Values 65
- Lecture 16. Shorrock's Representation for Discrete Records 69
- Lecture 17. Joint Distributions of Record Times and Record Values 76
- Lecture 18. Asymptotic Distributions of Record Values 79
- Lecture 19. The kth Records 82
- Lecture 20. Generating Function of the kth Record Times 86
- Lecture 21. Moment Characteristics of the kth Record Times 89
- Lecture 22. Tata's Representation and Its Generalizations 92
- Lecture 23. Correlation Coefficients for Records 95
- Lecture 24. Records for Nonstationary Sequences of Random Variables 101
- Lecture 25. Record Times in the F[superscript alpha]-Scheme 107
- Lecture 26. Independence of Record Indicators and Maxima 114
- Lecture 27. Asymptotic Distribution of Record Values in the F[superscript alpha]-Scheme 116
- Lecture 28. Records in Sequences of Dependent Random Variables 119
- Lecture 29. Records and the Secretary Problem 125
- Lecture 30. Statistical Procedures Related to Records 129
- Appendix 1. Theory of Records: Historical Review 133
- Appendix 2. Hints, Solutions, and Answers 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164).
- ISBN:
- 0821819453
- OCLC:
- 44727683
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