Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 1: Contributions to the Theory of Statistics

Conference: Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Date: December 1954 and July-August 1955
Location: Statistical Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley

Editor: Jerzy Neyman

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1956
208 pp.

Subjects:

Mathematical statistics--Congresses
Probabilities
Permanent link to this proceedings: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bsmsp/1200501640
ISSN:0097-0433

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Miscellaneous front pages, Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 1: Contributions to the Theory of Statistics

Estimation by Least Squares and by Maximum Likelihood

Joseph Berkson; 1-11

On a Use of the Mann-Whitney Statistic

Z. W. Birnbaum; 13-17

The Estimation of the Location of a Discontinuity in Density

Herman Chernoff and Herman Rubin; 19-37

On Stochastic Approximation

Aryeh Dvoretzky; 39-55

Complete Class Theorems in Experimental Design

Sylvain Ehrenfeld; 57-67

Selection of Nonrepeatable Observations for Estimation

G. Elfving; 69-75

Some Problems in Estimating the Spectrum of a Time Series

Ulf Grenander and Murray Rosenblatt; 77-93

Two Approximations to the Robbins-Monro Process

J. L. Hodges and E. L. Lehmann; 95-104

The Role of Assumptions in Statistical Decisions

Wassily Hoeffding; 105-114

Decision Theory for Pólya Type Distributions. Case of Two Actions, I

Samuel Karlin; 115-128

On the Asymptotic Theory of Estimation and Testing Hypotheses

L. Le Cam; 129-156

An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics

Herbert Robbins; 157-163

Some Regression Problems in Time Series Analysis

Murray Rosenblatt; 165-186

Efficient Nonparametric Testing and Estimation

Charles Stein; 187-195

Inadmissibility of the Usual Estimator for the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution

Charles Stein; 197-206

The Computation of the X-distribution

B. L. van der Waerden; 207-208

Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability