Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

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

F. Thomas Bruss (Editor) and Lucien Le Cam (Editor)

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F. Thomas Bruss (Editor) and Lucien Le Cam (Editor)

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

Dates
Publication date: 2000
First available in Project Euclid: 3 July 2008

Permanent link to this book
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.lnms/1215089731

ISBN:
0-940600-48-X

Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet):
MR1833844

Subjects
Primary: 60-06: Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc.
Secondary: 00B30: Festschriften

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Copyright © 2000, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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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)

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Miscellaneous Frontmatteri
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PrefaceF. Thomas Bruss and Lucien Le Cam; ii
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Photograph of Thomas S. Fergusoniii
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Biographyiv - v
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My contacts with Tom FergusonLucien Le Cam; vi - vii
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Bibliography of Thomas S. Fergusonviii - xi
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Papers By Topicsxii - xiii
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Papers in Alphabetical Order of Contributorsxiv
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Acknowledgement and List of Refereesxv - xvi
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I. Game Theory

Sums of $N\times2$ AmazonsElwyn R. Berlekamp; 1 - 34
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The square-root gameDavid Blackwell; 35 - 37
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Randomized strategies and terminal distributionsA. Maitra and W. Sudderth; 39 - 52
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Games against a prophet for stochastic processesA. Meyerthole and N. Schmitz; 53 - 69
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II. Optimal Stopping and Control

A note on Bruss' stopping problem with random availabilityKatsunori Ano and Masakazu Ando; 71 - 82
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On the optimal control of parallel systems and queuesV. D. Dinopoulou and C. Melolidakis; 83 - 100
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Sequential selection of an increasing subsequence from a random sample with geometrically distributed sample-sizeAlex Gnedin; 101 - 109
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A class of best-choice problems on sequences of continuous bivariate random variablesMinoru Sakaguchi and Toshio Hamada; 111 - 125
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Minimal expected ranks for the secretary problems with uncertain selectionMitsushi Tamaki; 127 - 139
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III. Probability

Boundary crossing probabilities in linkage analysisJosée Dupuis and David Siegmund; 141 - 152
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Complete lattices of probability measures with applications to martingale theoryRobert P. Kertz and Uwe Rösler; 153 - 177
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The almost sure number of pairwise sums for certain random integer subsets considered by P. ErdösMichael J. Klass; 179 - 189
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Efficient coupling on the circleT. S. Mountford and M. Cranston; 191 - 203
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IV. Statistics

Computing extended maximum likelihood estimates for Cox proportional-hazards modelsDouglas B. Clarkson and Robert I. Jennrich; 205 - 217
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Graph layout techniques and multidimensional data analysisJan de Leeuw and George Michailidis; 219 - 248
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The efficiency of some nonparametric rank-based competitors to correlogram methodsMarc Hallin and Olivier Tribel; 249 - 262
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Sequential estimation of functions of $p$ for Bernoulli trialsSteven L. Hubert and Ronald Pyke; 263 - 294
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Estimating relative density on a metric spaceJames MacQueen; 295 - 312
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Bayesian designs from asymptoticsDon Ylvisaker; 313 - 324
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Post ScriptumF. Thomas Bruss
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