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Advances in distribution theory, order statistics, and inference / N. Balakrishnan, Enrique Castillo, Jose Maria Sarabia, editors.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Statistics for industry and technologyPublication details: Boston : Birkhäuser, c2006.Description: liii, 483 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780817643614
  • 9780817644871
  • 0817643613 (hd. bd.)
  • 9780817643614 (hd. bd.)
  • 0817644873 (e-isbn)
  • 9780817644871 (e-isbn)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.24
LOC classification:
  • .I56 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Stochastic Comparisons of Bernoulli Sums and Binomial Random Variables -- Stopped Compound Poisson Process and Related Distributions -- Constructions of Discrete Bivariate Distributions
Normal-Laplace Distribution and Its Relatives -- Some Observations on a Simple Means of Generating Skew Distributions -- Bivariate Distributions Based on the Generalized Three-Parameter Beta Distribution -- A Kotz-Type Distribution for Multivariate Statistical Inference -- Range of Correlation Matrices for Dependent Random Variables with Given Marginal Distributions -- Multifractional Probabilistic Laws
Topics in the History of Order Statistics -- Order Statistics from Independent Exponential Random Variables and the Sum of the Top Order Statistics -- Fisher Information and Tukey's Linear Sensitivity Measure Based on Ordered Ranked Set Samples -- Information Measures for Pareto Distributions and Order Statistics -- Confidence Coefficients of Interpolated Nonparametric Sign Intervals for Medians Under No or Weak Shape Assumptions -- Small Sample Asymptotics for Higher-Order Spacings -- Best Bounds on Expectations of L-Statistics from Bounded Samples
Failure Rates of Mixtures -- Characterizations of the Relative Behavior of Two Systems via Properties of Their Signature Vectors -- Systems with Exchangeable Components and Gumbel Exponential Distribution -- Estimating the Mean of Exponential Distribution from Step-Stress Life Test Data -- Random Stress-Dependent Strength Models Through Exponential Conditionals Distributions
Some New Methods for Local Sensitivity Analysis in Statistics -- t-Tests with Models Close to the Normal Distribution -- Computational Aspect of the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Applications -- An Objective Bayesian Procedure for Variable Selection in Regression -- On Bayesian and Decision-Theoretic Approaches to Statistical Prediction -- Phi-Divergence-Type Test for Positive Dependence Alternatives in 2 x k Contingency Tables -- Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Time Series -- The Hat Problem and Some Variations
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Selected papers from the International Conference on Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference held June 16-18, 2004, at the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain and organized in honor of the 65th birthday of Barry C. Arnold.

[Part I: Discrete Distributions and Applications] Stochastic Comparisons of Bernoulli Sums and Binomial Random Variables -- Stopped Compound Poisson Process and Related Distributions -- Constructions of Discrete Bivariate Distributions

[Part II: Continuous Distributions and Applications] The Normal-Laplace Distribution and Its Relatives -- Some Observations on a Simple Means of Generating Skew Distributions -- Bivariate Distributions Based on the Generalized Three-Parameter Beta Distribution -- A Kotz-Type Distribution for Multivariate Statistical Inference -- Range of Correlation Matrices for Dependent Random Variables with Given Marginal Distributions -- Multifractional Probabilistic Laws

[Part III: Order Statistics and Applications] Topics in the History of Order Statistics -- Order Statistics from Independent Exponential Random Variables and the Sum of the Top Order Statistics -- Fisher Information and Tukey's Linear Sensitivity Measure Based on Ordered Ranked Set Samples -- Information Measures for Pareto Distributions and Order Statistics -- Confidence Coefficients of Interpolated Nonparametric Sign Intervals for Medians Under No or Weak Shape Assumptions -- Small Sample Asymptotics for Higher-Order Spacings -- Best Bounds on Expectations of L-Statistics from Bounded Samples

[Part IV: Reliability and Applications] The Failure Rates of Mixtures -- Characterizations of the Relative Behavior of Two Systems via Properties of Their Signature Vectors -- Systems with Exchangeable Components and Gumbel Exponential Distribution -- Estimating the Mean of Exponential Distribution from Step-Stress Life Test Data -- Random Stress-Dependent Strength Models Through Exponential Conditionals Distributions

[Part V: Inference] Some New Methods for Local Sensitivity Analysis in Statistics -- t-Tests with Models Close to the Normal Distribution -- Computational Aspect of the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Applications -- An Objective Bayesian Procedure for Variable Selection in Regression -- On Bayesian and Decision-Theoretic Approaches to Statistical Prediction -- Phi-Divergence-Type Test for Positive Dependence Alternatives in 2 x k Contingency Tables -- Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Time Series -- The Hat Problem and Some Variations

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