Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

State of the art in probability and statistics: Festschrift for Willem R. van Zwet, Papers from the symposium held at the University of Leiden, Leiden, March 23--26, 1999

Editor: Mathisca de Gunst
Editor: Chris Klaasen
Editor: Aad van der Vaart

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 36
Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2001.
616 pp.

Subjects:

62-06 (primary)
00B30 (secondary)
Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215090053
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1836549
ISBN:0-940600-50-1

Copyright © 2001, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Front Cover and Title Pages

i-ii

Preface

Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, and Aad van der Vaart; iii-iv

Contents

v-vii

Contributors

viii-xi

Curriculum Vitae of Willem Rutger van Zwet

xii-xiii

Publications of Willem R. van Zwet

xiv-xvii

From A to Z: asymptotic expansions by van Zwet

W. Albers; 2-20

Likelihoods and pseudolikelihoods for Markov spatial processes

A. J. Baddeley; 21-49

Laser cooling and stochastics

O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen, and F. E. Benth; 50-71

Extremal fits in REACT confidence sets

Rudolf Beran; 72-90

The bootstrap in hypothesis testing

Peter J. Bickel, and Jian-Jian Ren; 91-112

An alternative point of view on Lepski's method

Lucien Birgé; 113-133

Localization and decay of correlations for a pinned lattice free field in dimension two

Erwin Bolthausen, and David Brydges; 134-149

Quadratic statistics in testing problems of large dimension

D. M. Chibisov; 150-164

Some remarks on likelihood factorization

D. R. Cox; 165-172

Trimmed sums from the domain of geometric partial attraction of semistable laws

Sándor Csörgő, and Zoltán Megyesi; 173-194

Statistical problems involving permutations with restricted positions

Persi Diaconis, Ronald Graham, and Susan P. Holmes; 195-222

Markov chain conditions for admissibility in estimation problems with quadratic loss

Morris L. Eaton; 223-243

The scientific family tree of Willem R. van Zwet

Constance van Eeden; 244-254

Asymptotics in quantum statistics

Richard D. Gill; 255-285

Adaptive choice of bootstrap sample sizes

Friedrich Götze, and Alfredas Račkauskas; 286-309

Conformal invariance, droplets, and entanglement

Geoffrey Grimmett; 310-323

Nonparametric analysis of earthquake point-process data

Edwin Choi, and Peter Hall; 324-344

A note on estimators of gradual changes

M. Hušková; 345-358

Estimation of analytic functions

I. Ibragimov; 359-383

The deterministic evolution of general branching populations

Peter Jagers; 384-398

Chi-square oracle inequalities

Iain M. Johnstone; 399-418

A statistical approach to the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation

G. Golubev, and R. Khasminskii; 419-433

The two-sample problem in $\Bbb R\sp m$ and measure-valued martingales

J. H. J. Einmahl, and E. V. Khmaladze; 434-463

On central limit theory for random additive functions under weak dependence restrictions

M. R. Leadbetter, H. Rootzén, and H. Choi; 464-476

An exponential inequality for a weighted approximation to the uniform empirical process with applications

David M. Mason; 477-498

A nonparametric asymptotic version of the Cramér-Rao bound

J. Pfanzagl; 499-517

The reassembling of shattered Brownian sheet

Ronald Pyke; 518-532

Inverting noisy integral equations using wavelet expansions: a class of irregular convolutions

Peter Hall, Frits Ruymgaart, Onno van Gaans, and Arnoud van Rooij; 533-546

Note on a stochastic recursion

David Siegmund; 547-554

Ancillary history

Stephen M. Stigler; 555-567

On order statistics close to the maximum

Jef L. Teugels; 568-581

Adaptive tuning, 4-D Var and representers in RKHS

G. Wahba; 582-592

Some converse limit theorems for exchangeable bootstraps

Jon A. Wellner; 593-606

Perfect stochastic EM

Erik van Zwet; 607-616

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series