Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 4: Biology and Health

Conference: Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Date: June 21-July 18, 1970, April 9-12, June 16-21, and July 19-22, 1971
Location: Statistical Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley

Editors: Lucien M. Le Cam, Jerzy Neyman and Elizabeth L. Scott

Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1972
353 pp.

Subjects:

Mathematical statistics--Congresses
Probabilities

Permanent link to this proceedings: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bsmsp/1200514448
ISSN:0097-0433

Miscellaneous front pages, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 4: Biology and Health

Statistical aspects of clinical trials

Byron Wm. Brown, Jr.; 1-13

Automated diagnosis in multiphasic screening

Dankward Kodlin and Morris F. Collen; 15-23

Some practical problems in clinical trials

William F. Taylor and Peter C. O'Brien; 25-32

When is a fixed number of observations optimal?

D. A. Darling; 33-35

A class of stopping rules for testing parametric hypotheses

Herbert Robbins and David Siegmund; 37-41

Sequential medical trials with data dependent treatment allocation

B. J. Flehinger and T. A. Louis; 43-51

Comparisons of sequential procedures for selecting the best binomial population

David Hoel and Milton Sobel; 53-69

Critical age dependent branching processes

Howard J. Weiner; 71-78

Equilibria for genetic systems with weak interaction

Samuel Karlin and James McGregor; 79-87

The mathematics of sex and marriage

Nathan Keyfitz; 89-108

Measurement of diversity: multiple cell contents

F. N. David; 109-136

Models and approximations for synchronous cellular growth

W. A. O'N. Waugh; 137-146

A time dependent simple stochastic epidemic

Grace L. Yang and Chin Long Chiang; 147-158

Galton-Watson processes with generation dependence

Dean H. Fearn; 159-172

Markov chain clustering of births by sex

Jerome Klotz; 173-185

An equality in stochastic processes

Chin Long Chiang; 187-197

A systematic approach to graphical methods in biometry

M. Tarter and S. Raman; 199-222

Applications of Neyman's C(α) technique

F. N. David; 223-230

On a mathematical theory of quantal response assays

Prem S. Puri and Jerome Senturia; 231-247

Estimating the mean of a random binomial parameter

G. Morris Southward and J Van Ryzin; 249-263

Nonthreshold models of the survival of bacteria after irradiation

Peter Clifford; 265-286

Studies of the mechanism of induction of pulmonary adenomas in mice

Margaret R. White; 287-307

Evaluation of the internal exposure due to various administered dosages of urethane to mice

Claude L. Guillier; 309-315

Source of evaluations reformulated and analyzed

I. Richard Savage and Murray Webster; 317-327

Self-selection—a major problem in observational studies

J. Yerushalmy; 329-342

Index, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Vol. 1-6

343-353