Selected Proceedings of the Sheffield Symposium on Applied Probability: Held at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, August 16--19, 1989
Editor: Ishwar V. Basawa
Editor: Robert L. Taylor
Lecture Notes--Monograph Series, Volume 18
Hayward, CA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1991.
278 pp.
Subjects:
60-06 (primary)62-06 (secondary)
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1193056
ISBN:0-940600-25-0
Copyright © 1991, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Introduction
Some Aspects of the Sheffield Symposium
Ishwar V. Basawa, and Robert L. Taylor; 1-2
The Promotion and Development of Applied Probability: A Note on the Contributions of Joe Gani
Chris C. Heyde; 9-11
Selected Invited Papers of the Symposium
Analysis of Infectious Disease Data from a Sample of Households
Niels G. Becker; 27-40
A Central Limit Theorem for Evolving Random Fields
P. E. Greenwood, and Mina Ossiander; 66-99
When Did Joe's Great...Grandfather Live? Or: On the Time Scale of Evolution
Peter Jagers, Olle Nerman, and Ziad Taib; 118-126
Peter Whittle; 149-155
Selected Contributed Papers of the Symposium
Accumulation Points of a Particular Normalized Random Walk
Andre Adler; 156-158
Uniform Convergence of Martingales in the One-Dimensional Branching Random Walk
J. D. Biggins; 159-173
An Urn Model and the Coalescent in Neutral Infinite-Alleles
David Branson; 174-192
Extinction Probabilities of Branching Processes in Random Environments
D. R. Grey, and Lu Zhunwei; 205-211
Measure-Valued Processes: Techniques and Applications
Kenneth J. Hochberg; 212-235
Saddlepoint Approximations in the Case of Intractable Cumulant Generating Functions
John E. Kolassa; 236-255
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