Methods and Models in Statistics : In Honour of Professor John Nelder, Frs

by Adams, Niall M.; Crowder, Martin; Hand, D. J.; Stephens, Dave

• ISBN13: 9781860944635
• ISBN10: 1860944639
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-31
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

John Nelder is one of today's leading statisticians, having made an impact on many and various areas of data analysis. This book contains reviews of some of those areas, written by top researchers. It is accessible to non-specialists, and is noteworthy for its breadth of coverage.

Table of Contents

1. Preface	ix
N.M. Adams, M.J. Crowder, D.J. Hand, and D.A. Stephens
2. Foreword	xi
J.A. Nelder
3. John Nelder: From General Balance to Generalised Models (Both Linear and Hierarchical)	1	(12)
S. Senn
4. Some Remarkes on Model Criticism	13	(10)
D.R. Cox
5. Likelihood Perspectives in the Consensus and Controversies of Statistical Modelling and Inference	23	(30)
Y. Pawitan
6. Perspectives of ANOVA, REML and a General Linear Mixed Model	53	(42)
B.R. Cullis, A.B. Smith and R. Thompson
7. Algorithms, Data Structures and Languages - the Computational Ingredients for Innovative Analysis	95	(24)
R. Payne
8. Non-Linear Regression Modelling and Inference	119	(36)
J.C. Wakefield
9. Selecting Amongst Large Classes of Models	155	(16)
B.D. Ripley
10. Principles of Designed Experiments in J. A. Nelder's Papers	171	(24)
R.A. Bailey
11. Likelihood-based Models Beyond GLMs	195	(20)
Y. Lee
12. A Statistical Examination of the Hastings Rarities	215	(20)
J.A. Nelder
13. The Works of John Nelder	235