Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Mathematical statistics and applications: Festschrift for Constance van Eeden

Editor: Marc Moore
Editor: Sorana Froda
Editor: Christian Léger

Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 42
Beachwood, OH: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2003.
495 pp.

Subjects:

62-06 (primary)
Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215091920
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR2138280
ISBN:0-940600-57-9

Copyright © 2003, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

i-vi

Contributors

vii-xii

Preface

Marc Moore, Sorana Froda, and Christian Léger; xiii-xiv

Biography

xv-xviii

Bibliography

xix-xxiv

The Scientific Family Tree of Constance van Eeden

xxv-xxx

Decision Theory

On minimax estimation of a normal mean vector for general quadratic loss

William E. Strawderman; 3-14

Old and new aspects of minimax estimation of a bounded parameter

Guido Bader, and Wolfgang Bischoff; 15-30

Some aspects of matching priors

N. Reid, R. Mukerjee, and D. A. S. Fraser; 31-43

Improving on the MLE of $p$ for a binomial $(n,p)$ when $p$ is around $\frac 12$

François Perron; 45-61

Nonparametric Statistics

Asymptotically most accurate confidence intervals in the semiparametric symmetric location model

Chris A. J. Klaassen; 65-84

Aligned rank test for the bivariate randomized block model

Denis Larocque, and Isabelle Bussières; 85-97

Testing symmetry of the errors of a linear model

Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Joseph W. McKean, and Simon J. Sheather; 99-112

Spearman's rho and Kendall's tau for multivariate data sets

Hamani El Maache, and Yves Lepage; 113-130

Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Accardi contra bell (cum mundi): the impossible coupling

Richard D. Gill; 133-154

Uncertainty, entropy, variance and the effect of partial information

James V. Zidek, and Constance van Eeden; 155-167

Toetjes na

Thomas S. Ferguson, and Christian Genest; 169-183

On random walks and diffusions related to Parrondo's games

Ronald Pyke; 185-216

Derivative in the mean of a density and statistical applications

J. Jurečková, and X. Milhaud; 217-230

Statistical Theory and its Applications

Asymptotics for robust sequential designs in misspecified regression models

Sanjoy Sinha, and Douglas P. Wiens; 233-247

Explicit solutions in a smooth change problem

Andrew L. Rukhin; 249-260

On threshold-based classification rules

Leila Mohammadi, and Sara van de Geer; 261-280

Two types of infectives among homogeneous IVDU susceptibles

J. Gani; 281-289

Optimal group sequential designs for the Anscombe-Colton model

A. John Petkau; 291-315

General saddlepoint approximation methods for smooth functions of M-estimates with bootstrap applications

D. F. Andrews, and A. Feuerverger; 317-331

Log-normal durations can give long range dependence

Jan Hannig, J. S. Marron, Gennady Samorodnitsky, and F. D. Smith; 333-344

On estimating the period of a cyclic Poisson process

Roelof Helmers, and I. Wayan Mangku; 345-356

Some efficiency comparisons for estimators from quasi-likelihood and generalized estimating equations

S. Liu, and C. C. Heyde; 357-371

Dependent Data Modelling

An analysis of a bivariate time series in which the components are sampled at different instants

David R. Brillinger; 375-396

Tests for non-correlation of two multivariate time series: a nonparametric approach

Khalid El Himdi, Roch Roy, and Pierre Duchesne; 397-416

Affine invariant linear hypotheses for the multivariate general linear model with VARMA error terms

Marc Hallin, and Davy Paindaveine; 417-432

Censoring

Score tests for dependent censoring with survival data

Mériem Saïd, Nadia Ghazzali, and Louis-Paul Rivest; 435-461

On local polynomial estimation of hazard rates and their derivatives under random censoring

Jiancheng Jiang, and Kjell Doksum; 463-481

A simulation study of a minimum distance estimator for finite mixtures under censoring

René Ferland, Sorana Froda, and Jean Lavigne; 483-495

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series