Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics : In Celebration of Professor Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday

by Zhang, Yaoting; Huang, Jian; Zhang, Heping

• ISBN13: 9789812383952
• ISBN10: 9812383956
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book encompasses a wide range of important topics. The articles cover the following areas: asymptotic theory and inference, biostatistics, economics and finance, statistical computing and Bayesian statistics, and statistical genetics. Specifically, the issues that are studied include large deviation, deviation inequalities, local sensitivity of model misspecification in likelihood inference, empirical likelihood confidence intervals, uniform convergence rates in density estimation, randomized designs in clinical trials, MCMC and EM algorithms, approximation of p-values in multipoint linkage analysis, use of mixture models in genetic studies, and design and analysis of quantitative traits.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
An Interview with Professor Yaoting Zhang	1	(9)
Qiwei Yao and Zhaohai Li
Significance Level in Interval Mapping	10	(10)
David O. Siegmund and Benny Yakir
An Asymptotic Pythagorean Identity	20	(18)
Zhiliang Ying
A Monte Carlo Gap Test in Computing HPD Regions	38	(15)
Ming-Hui Chen, Xuming He, Qi-Man Shao and Hai Xu
Estimating Restricted Normal Means Using the EM-type Algorithms and IBF Sampling	53	(21)
Ming Tan, Guo-Liane Tian and Hong-Bin Fang
An Example of Algorithm Mining: Covariance Adjustment to Accelerate EM and Gibbs	74	(15)
Chuanhai Liu
Large Deviations and Deviation Inequality for Kernel Density Estimator in Li (Rd)-distance	89	(9)
Liangzhen Lei, Liming Wu and Bin Xie
Local Sensitivity Analysis of Model Misspecification	98	(10)
Guobing Lu
Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Quantiles of a Population	108	(10)
Yongsong Qin and Yuehua Wu
Exponential Inequalities for Spatial Processes and Uniform Convergence Rates for Density Estimation	118	(11)
Qiwei Yao
A Skew Regression Model for Inference of Stock Volatility	129	(11)
Tuhao J. Chen and Hanfeng Chen
Explicit Transitional Dynamics in Growth Models	140	(16)
Danyang Xie
A Fiscal Federalism Approach to Optimal Taxation and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dynamic Model	156	(23)
Liutang Gong and Heng-Fu Zou
Sharing Catastrophe Risk under Model Uncertainty	179	(10)
Xiaodong Zhu
Ranked Set Sampling: A Methodology for Observational Economy	189	(16)
Zehua Chen
Some Recent Advances on Response-Adaptive Randomized Designs	205	(15)
Feifang Hu
A Childhood Epidemic Model with Birthrate-Dependent Transmission	220	(16)
Yingcun Xia
Linear Regression Analysis with Observations Subject to Interval Censoring	236	(10)
Linxiong Li
When Can the Haseman-Elston Procedure for Quantitative Trait Loci be improved? Insights from Optimal Design Theory	246	(16)
Zhaohai Li, Minyu Xie and Joseph L. Gastwirth
A Semiparametric Method for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci	262	(10)
Jian Huang and Kai Wang
Structure Mixture Regression Models	272
Hongtu Zhu and Heping Zhang