UID:
almahu_9949084215902882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 421 pages).
Series Statement:
Institute of Mathematical Statistics collections (Online) ; Volume 2
Content:
This volume is our tribute to David A. Freedman, whom we regard as one of the great statisticians of our time.
Note:
Probability theory and its models -- Dutch book in simple multivariate normal prediction: Another look -- A transient Markov chain with finitely many cutpoints -- Moments of convex distribution functions and completely alternating sequences -- Brownian motion on disconnected sets, basic hypergeometric functions, and some continued fractions of Ramanujan -- Characteristics of hand and machine-assigned scores to college students' answers to open-ended tasks -- Alternative formulas for synthetic dual system estimation in the 2000 census -- On the history and use of some standard statistical models -- Counting the homeless in Los Angeles County -- Statistical adjustment for a measure of healthy lifestyle doesn't yield the truth about hormone therapy -- Multiple tests of association with biological annotation metadata -- Multivariate data analysis: The French way -- The future of census coverage surveys -- Three months journeying of a Hawaiian monk seal -- Projection pursuit for discrete data -- DNA Probabilities in People v. Prince: When are racial and ethnic statistics relevant? -- Testing earthquake predictions -- Curse-of-dimensionality revisited: Collapse of the particle filter in very large scale systems -- Higher order influence functions and minimax estimation of nonlinear functionals.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-940600-74-9
Language:
English
