Some recent advances in statistics

Author(s)

• Oliveira, J. Tiago de
• Epstein, Benjamin
• Academia das Sciências de Lisboa

Bibliographic Information

Some recent advances in statistics

edited by J. Tiago de Oliveira and Benjamin Epstein

Academic Press, 1982

Note

"Based on a symposium held in 1980 under the sponsorship of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in their series: Frontiers of science"--p. facing t.p

Includes bibliographies

Contents of Works

• Measurement and burden of evidence / Herbert Solomon
• Data modeling using quantile and density-quantile functions / Emanuel Parzen
• Stochastic processes in the theory of epidemics / J. Gani
• The Bayesian approach to statistics / Dennis V. Lindley
• Concomitants of order statistics / H.A. David
• Decision and modelling for extremes / J. Tiago de Oliveira
• An overview of techniques of data analysis, emphasizing its exploratory aspects / Colin L. Mallows and John W. Tukey
• Computer intensive methods in statistics / Bradley Efron
• Current issues in robust statistics / Peter J. Huber
• Bayesian evaluation of life test sampling plans / Richard E. Barlow and Alexander S. Wu
• The statistical analysis of incomplete life length data / Benjamin Epstein

Details

• NCID: BA0727771X
• ISBN:
  • 0126915806
• LCCN: 82181038
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 248 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA276.16
  • DC19 : 519.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mathematical statistics -- Addresses, essays, lectures