| Description |
liii, 483 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Statistics for industry and technology
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| Note(s) |
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. |
| Contents |
[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. |
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[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. |
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[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. |
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[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. |
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[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. |
| Local Note / Price |
104.00 |
| Subject(s) |
Arnold, Barry C.
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Distribution (Probability theory) -- Congresses.
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Order statistics -- Congresses.
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Mathematical statistics -- Congresses.
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| Alt Author |
Arnold, Barry C.
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Balakrishnan, N., 1956-
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Castillo, Enrique, 1946-
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Sarabia, José-Mariá.
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| ISBN |
0817643613 (hd. bd.) |
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9780817643614 (hd. bd.) |
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0817644873 (e-isbn) |
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9780817644871 (e-isbn) |
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