Statistical Theory and Applications

by Nagaraja, H. N.; Sen, Pranab Kumar; Morrison, Donald F.

• ISBN13: 9780387945910
• ISBN10: 0387945911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This volume in honor of Herbert A. David spans several areas of statistics, notably order statistics, inference, analysis of variance, and biometry. The range of contributors also reflects the scope of Professor David's work.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
PIC: Power Divergence Information Criterion	p. 3
Multivariate Student's t and Its Applications	p. 15
Two Sets of Multivariate Bonferroni-type Inequalities	p. 29
On the Proportion above Sample Mean for Symmetric Stable Laws	p. 37
The Relative Efficiency of Several Statistics Measuring Skewness	p. 43
On a Class of Symmetric Nonnormal Distributions with a Kurtosis of Three	p. 55
Moments of the Selection Differential from Exponential and Uniform Parents	p. 67
The Tallest Man in the World	p. 81
Characterizing Distributions by Properties of Order Statistics - A Partial Review	p. 89
Stochastic Ordering of the Number of Records	p. 105
Moments of Cauchy Order Statistics via Riemann Zeta Functions	p. 117
Order Statistics of Bivariate Exponential Random Variables	p. 129
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Laplace Parameters Based on Type-II Censored Samples	p. 145
The Impact of Order Statistics on Signal Processing	p. 153
A Nonlinear Ordered Rank Test to Detect Stochastic Ordering Between Two Distributions	p. 177
Estimation of Location and Scale Parameters of a Logistic Distribution Using a Ranked Set Sample	p. 187
Probability Models for an Employment Problem	p. 199
On the Robustness of Bayes Estimators of the Variance Ratio in Balanced One-Way ANOVA Models with Covariates	p. 217
Interchange Algorithms for Constructing Designs with Complex Blocking Structures	p. 233
Paired Comparisons for Multiple Characteristics: An ANOCOVA Approach	p. 247
On Assessing Multiple Equivalences with Reference to Bioequivalence	p. 267
Competing Risks	p. 279
Statistical Aspects of the Detection of Activation Effects in Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism by Positron Emission Tomography	p. 293
On Optimality of Q-Charts for Outliers in Statistical Process Control	p. 305
Herbert A. David	p. 313
Conference Abstracts, Anecdotes, and Appreciation	p. 327
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