Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 15

2. Volume 15 Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-74403-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Norman L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kotz, Samuel

Balakrishnan, Narayanaswamy

Read, Campbell B.

Vidakovic, Brani

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1. A to buys ballot table
Volume 2. Calcutta Statistical Association bulletin to cyclic sampling

Volume 3. D'Agostino test of normality to eye estimate

Volume 4. Faa´ Di Bruno's formula to graduation, Whittaker Henderson

Volume 5. Graeco-Latin squares to International Statistical Institute (ISI)

Volume 6. International statistical review to line intersect sampling

Volume 7. Lineo-normal distribution to mixtures of normal distributions, estimation of

Volume 8. Mizutani distribution to Nyquist frequency

Volume 9. Oakes's test of concordance to preference functions

Volume 10. Preference mapping to recovery of interblock information

Volume 11. Rectangular distribution to sequential estimation

Volume 12. Sequential estimation of the mean in finite populations to Steiner's most frequent value

Volume 13. Stein's method to Tobit Model, Burr

Volume 14. Toeplitz Lemma to V[subscript N]-Test

Volume 15. Wagr test to Zyskind-Martin models

Volume 16. Cumulative index, volumes 1-15

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Kotz (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1960) is Visiting Professor of Operations Research and Statistics at The George Washington University. He is the senior Co-Editor-in-Chief of the 13-volume Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (1982-1999) and author or co-author of over 300 books and articles on statistical methodology and theory. He is an honorary fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

Campbell B. Read (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969) is Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University. He is a junior Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences and author or co-author of over 150 books and articles. He is a member of over a half dozen professional societies.

N. Balakrishnan (Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, 1982) is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. He holds numerous honors, awards, and editorial positions in the field of statistics. He has published more than 50 books on various subjects in the discipline. He is an avid traveler.

Brani Vadakovic (Ph.D. Purdue University, 1992) is Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology where he concentrates most of his time in the study and analysis of wavelets. He received the I.W. Burr Award for excellence in teaching, consulting, and research at Purdue University in 1992.