Application in physical, social, and life sciences

Author(s)

• NATO Advanced Study Institute
• Taillie, C.
• Patil, Ganapati P.
• Baldessari, Bruno
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division

Bibliographic Information

Application in physical, social, and life sciences

edited by Charles Taillie,Ganapati P. Patil, and Bruno A. Baldessari

（NATO advanced study institutes series, Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; v. 79 . Statistical distributions in scientific work : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, July 10-August 1, 1980 ; v. 6）

D. Reidel Pub. Co., c1981

Note

lncludes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Trieste, Italy, July 10-August 1, 1980

Table of Contents

Section I: Applications in the Physical Sciences.- Recent Directional Distributions with Applications.- Size Distribution of Suspended Particles — Unimodality, Symmetry and Lognormality.- Offshore Oil/Gas Lease Bidding and the Weibull Distribution.- Statistical Distributions Occurring in Photoelectron Phenomena, Radar and Infrared Applications.- Application of Discrete Distributions for Estimating the Number of Organic Compounds in Water.- Some Bivariate Probability Models Applicable to Traffic Accidents and Fatalities.- Role and Use of Statistical Distributions in Information Theory as Applied to Chemical Analysis.- Section II: Applications in the Social Sciences.- Modeling the Distribution of Fingerprint Characteristics.- Stochastic Modeling in Political Science Research.- Statistical Distribution Models in the Behavioral Sciences: A Review of Theory and Applications.- Some Issues Associated with the Measurement of Income Inequality.- Lorenz Ordering Within the Generalized Gamma Family of Income Distributions.- The Choice of a Distribution to Describe Personal Incomes.- Relationships Between Income Distributions for Individuals and for Households.- Section III: Applications in the Life Sciences.- Spike Interval Distributions for Neurons and Random Walks with Drift to a Fluctuating Threshold.- Probability Distributions Arising from the Ascertainment and the Analysis of Data on Human Families and Other Groups.- A Stochastic Model for the Study of the Distribution of Chromosome Aberrations in Human and Animal Cells Exposed to Radiation or Chemicals.- A Model for the Analysis of Platelet Survival.- Extinction and Waiting Times in Birth-Death Processes: Applications to Endangered Species and Insect Pest Control.- The Poisson Lognormal Distribution and its Use as a Modelof Plankton Aggregation.- Some Applications of Statistical Distribution Theory to Biology and Medicine.- Section IV: Extreme Values and Order Statistics.- Extreme Value Theory with Application to Hydrology.- Properties of Extreme Order Statistics and Their Application to Fire Losses and Earthquake Magnitudes.- Statistical Choice of Univariate Extreme Models.- An i-Dimensional Limiting Distribution Function of Largest Values and its Relevance to the Statistical Theory of Extremes.- Waiting Times and Return Periods to Exceed the Maximum of a Previous Sample.- Waiting Times and Return Periods Related to Order Statistics: An Application of Urn Models.- Author Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA24845116
• ISBN:
  • 9027713340
• LCCN: 81012043
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Dordrecht
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 445 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA273.6
  • DC19 : 519.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Distribution (Probability theory) -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Mathematical statistics -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00221036