Stochastic musings : perspectives from the pioneers of the late 20th century : a volume in celebration of the 13 years of the Department of Statistics of the Athens University of Economics & Business in honour of Professors C. Kevork & P. Tzortzopoulos / edited by John Panaretos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kevork, Kōnst. Ēl., 1928-

Tzōrtzopoulos, P. Th.

Panaretos, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is the only book to assemble the views of these leading scientists--the pioneers in their respective fields. Stochastic Musings features contributions by: *Sir David Cox on statistics and econometrics; *C.R. Rao, M.B. Rao, and D.N. Shanbhag on convex sets of multivariate distributions and their extreme points; *Bradley Efron on the future of statistics; *David Freedman on

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 SAMPLE ORDERING FOR EFFECTIVE STATISTICAL INFERENCE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; 2 A UNIFIED STATISTICAL APPROACH TO SOME MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; 3 SOME REMARKS ON STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMETRICS; 4 THE STATISTICAL CENTURY; 5 FROM ASSOCIATION TO CAUSATION: SOME REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS; 6 SCANNING A LATTICE FOR A PARTICULAR PATTERN; 7 MIXTURES EVERYWHERE; 8 NEW PARADIGMS (MODELS) FOR PROBABILITY SAMPLING

9 LIMIT DISTRIBUTIONS OF UNCORRELATED BUT DEPENDENT DISTRIBUTIONS ON THE UNIT SQUARE10 LATENT VARIABLE MODELS WITH COVARIATES; 11 SOME NEW ELLIPTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; 12 EXTREME VALUE INDEX ESTIMATORS AND SMOOTHING ALTERNATIVES: A CRITICAL REVIEW; 13 ON CONVEX SETS OF MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS AND THEIR EXTREME POINTS; 14 THE LIFESPAN OF A RENEWAL; 15 MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES OF GENETIC EFFECTS; 16 A PREDICTIVE MODEL EVALUATION AND SELECTION APPROACH-THE CORRELATED GAMMA RATIO DISTRIBUTION; 17 CONVERGENCE RATE ESTIMATES IN FUNCTIONAL LIMIT THEOREMS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-37475-3

9786612374753

1-4106-0912-X

9781410609120

OCLC:

476267332