F. Thomas Bruss, and Lucien Le Cam, eds. Game theory, optimal stopping, probability and statistics: Papers in honor of Thomas S. Ferguson (Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000)

Game theory, optimal stopping, probability and statistics: Papers in honor of Thomas S. Ferguson

Editor: F. Thomas Bruss
Editor: Lucien Le Cam

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 35
Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000.
324 pp.

Subjects:

60-06 (primary)
00B30 (secondary)

Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215089731
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1833844
ISBN:0-940600-48-X

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

i

Preface

F. Thomas Bruss, and Lucien Le Cam; ii

Photograph of Thomas S. Ferguson

iii

Biography

iv-v

My contacts with Tom Ferguson

Lucien Le Cam; vi-vii

Bibliography of Thomas S. Ferguson

viii-xi

Papers By Topics

xii-xiii

Papers in Alphabetical Order of Contributors

xiv

Acknowledgement and List of Referees

xv-xvi

I. Game Theory

Sums of $N\times2$ Amazons

Elwyn R. Berlekamp; 1-34

The square-root game

David Blackwell; 35-37

Randomized strategies and terminal distributions

A. Maitra, and W. Sudderth; 39-52

Games against a prophet for stochastic processes

A. Meyerthole, and N. Schmitz; 53-69

II. Optimal Stopping and Control

A note on Bruss' stopping problem with random availability

Katsunori Ano, and Masakazu Ando; 71-82

On the optimal control of parallel systems and queues

V. D. Dinopoulou, and C. Melolidakis; 83-100

Sequential selection of an increasing subsequence from a random sample with geometrically distributed sample-size

Alex Gnedin; 101-109

A class of best-choice problems on sequences of continuous bivariate random variables

Minoru Sakaguchi, and Toshio Hamada; 111-125

Minimal expected ranks for the secretary problems with uncertain selection

Mitsushi Tamaki; 127-139

III. Probability

Boundary crossing probabilities in linkage analysis

Josée Dupuis, and David Siegmund; 141-152

Complete lattices of probability measures with applications to martingale theory

Robert P. Kertz, and Uwe Rösler; 153-177

The almost sure number of pairwise sums for certain random integer subsets considered by P. Erdös

Michael J. Klass; 179-189

Efficient coupling on the circle

T. S. Mountford, and M. Cranston; 191-203

IV. Statistics

Computing extended maximum likelihood estimates for Cox proportional-hazards models

Douglas B. Clarkson, and Robert I. Jennrich; 205-217

Graph layout techniques and multidimensional data analysis

Jan de Leeuw, and George Michailidis; 219-248

The efficiency of some nonparametric rank-based competitors to correlogram methods

Marc Hallin, and Olivier Tribel; 249-262

Sequential estimation of functions of $p$ for Bernoulli trials

Steven L. Hubert, and Ronald Pyke; 263-294

Estimating relative density on a metric space

James MacQueen; 295-312

Bayesian designs from asymptotics

Don Ylvisaker; 313-324

Post Scriptum

F. Thomas Bruss