Jiayang Sun, Anirban DasGupta, Vince Melfi, Connie Page, eds., Recent Developments in Nonparametric Inference and Probability: Festschrift for Michael Woodroofe (Beachwood, Ohio, USA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006)

Recent Developments in Nonparametric Inference and Probability: Festschrift for Michael Woodroofe

Editor: Jiayang Sun
Editor: Anirban DasGupta
Editor: Vince Melfi
Editor: Connie Page

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Number 50
Beachwood, Ohio, USA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006.
231 pp.

Abstract:

There have been extensive developments recently in modern nonparametric inference and modeling. Nonparametric and semi-parametric methods are especially useful with large amounts of data that are now routinely collected in many areas of science. Probability and stochastic modeling are also playing major new roles in scientific applications. This refereed special volume highlights challenges and developments at this interface of statistics, probability and the sciences, and honors Michael B. Woodroofe for his pioneering contributions to nonparametric inference and probability.

Subjects:

62-06 (primary)
60-06 (secondary)
62G99 (secondary)
00B30 (secondary)
00B25 (secondary)

Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1196284044
ISBN:0-940600-66-9
Zentralblatt Math Identifier: 1113.62003

Title and Copyright Pages

Table of Contents

iii

Preface

Jiayang Sun, Anirban DasGupta, Vince Melfi, and Connie Page; v

List of Contributors

vi-vii

Probability, Bayesian Inference and Stochastic Process

Group invariant inferred distributions via noncommutative probability

B. Heller, and M. Wang; 1-19

Invariance principles for fractionally integrated nonlinear processes

Wei Biao Wu, and Xiaofeng Shao; 20-30

Random walk on a polygon

Jyotirmoy Sarka; 31-43

Contemporary Sequential Analysis

Bias correction and confidence intervals following sequential tests

Tze Leung Lai, Zheng Su, and Chin Shan Chuang; 44-57

Multivariate sequential analysis with linear boundaries

Robert Keener; 58-79

Corrected confidence intervals for secondary parameters following sequential tests

R. C. Weng, and D. S. Coad; 80-104

Efficient three-stage t-tests

Jay Bartroff; 105-111

Biased Sampling, Measurement Error Models and Restricted Inference

On the behavior of Bayesian credible intervals for some restricted parameter space problems

Éric Marchand, and William E. Strawderman; 112-126

Sieve estimates for biased survival data

Jiayang Sun, and Bin Wang; 127-143

Existence of the signal in the signal plus background model

Tonglin Zhang; 144-155

A test for equality of multinomial distributions vs increasing convex order

Arthur Cohen, John Kolassa, and Harold Sackrowitz; 156-163

Nonlinear Renewal Theory

Nonlinear renewal theorems for random walks with perturbations of intermediate order

Keiji Nagai, and Cun-Hui Zhang; 164-175

A non-linear Renewal Theorem with stationary and slowly changing perturbations

Dong-Yun Kim, and Michael Woodroofe; 176-189

Multiple Testing, FDR, Statistics in Imaging and Data Mining

On the false discovery rates of a frequentist: Asymptotic expansions

Anirban DasGupta, and Tonglin Zhang; 190-212

Spatial-temporal data mining procedure: LASR

Xiaofeng Wang, Jiayang Sun, and Kath Bogie; 213-231