Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

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)
Permanent link to this monograph: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215459277
Mathmatical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1193056
ISBN:0-940600-25-0

Copyright © 1991, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

i-iii

Preface

Ishwar V. Basawa, and Robert L. Taylor; iv-v

Contributors

vi-vii

Introduction

Some Aspects of the Sheffield Symposium

Ishwar V. Basawa, and Robert L. Taylor; 1-2

Some Remarks on Recent Developments in Applied Probability

Joe Gani; 3-8

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

Applications of Random Walks on Finite Graphs

David Aldous; 12-26

Analysis of Infectious Disease Data from a Sample of Households

Niels G. Becker; 27-40

On Directed Polymers in a Random Environment

Erwin Bolthausen; 41-47

A Look at Perturbation Approximations for Epidemics

Henry E. Daniels; 48-65

A Central Limit Theorem for Evolving Random Fields

P. E. Greenwood, and Mina Ossiander; 66-99

The Two-Locus Ancestral Graph

Robert C. Griffiths; 100-117

When Did Joe's Great...Grandfather Live? Or: On the Time Scale of Evolution

Peter Jagers, Olle Nerman, and Ziad Taib; 118-126

Point Processes and Inference for Rainfall Fields

Michael J. Phelan; 127-148

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

The Genealogy of Patterns of ESS's

Chris Cannings, and G. T. Vickers; 193-204

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

U-statistics and Double Stable Integrals

Joop Mijnheer; 256-268

Gene Conversion and the Infinite-Sites Model

Stanley A. Sawyer; 269-277

Acknowledgement of Referee Service and Editorial Assistance

278

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series