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Contributions to probability and statistics :

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1281373052

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Contributions to probability and statistics :

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applications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005

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Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma.

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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J.

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World Scientific

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©2006.

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(x, 311 pages) : illustrations

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Preface --;pt. A. Mathematics and statistics in society. Estimating internet access for welfare recipients in Australia / A. Daly & R. Lloyd. Two classification methods of individuals for educational data and an application / A. Hayashi. Measurement of skill and skill change / R. Kelly & P.E.T. Lewis. Some comments about Issai Schur (1875-1941) and the early history of Schur complements / S. Puntanen & G.P.H. Styan --;pt. B. Applications of statistics. Estimating the number of SARS cases in mainland China in 2002-3 / J. Gani. Using statistics to determine the effectiveness of prescribed burning / K.J. King & J. Chapman. A fair tennis scoring system for doubles in the presence of sun and wind effects --;an application of probability / G. Pollard --;Theoretical issues in probability and statistics. Perturbed Markov chains / J.J. Hunter. Matrix tricks for linear statistical models: a short review of our personal top fourteen / J. Isotalo, S. Puntanen & G.P.H. Styan. On influence diagnostics in multivariate regression models under elliptical distributions / S. Liu. A necessary condition for admissibility of nonnegative quadratic estimators of variance components when the moments are not necessarily as under normality / C.-Y. Lu, Y. Gao & B. Zhang. Small-sample performance of robust methods in logistic regression / S. Nargis & A. Richardson. On the asymptotic distribution of the 'natural' estimator of Cronbach's alpha with standardised variates under non-normality, ellipticity and normality / H. Neudecker. On the approximate variance of a nonlinear function of random variables / H. Neudecker & G. Trenkler. On oblique and orthogonal projectors / G. Trenkler. Fiducial inference of means and variances from normal populations under order restrictions / B.X. Zhang, X.Z. Xu & X. Li --;pt. Probabilistic models in economics and finance. When large claims are extremes / R. Gay. Shrinkage estimation of Gini index / R. Ghori, S.E. Ahmed & A.A. Hussein. On the problem of discriminating between the tails of distributions / C.C. Heyde & K. Au --;pt. E. Numerical methods. An approximate maximum a Posteriori method with Gaussian process priors / M. Hegland. Data extraction for improved prediction outcomes in organ transplantation --;a hybrid approach / F. Shadabi et al. Mining multiple models / G.J. Williams --;pt. F. Abstracts with papers. Ranked set sampling: a simple idea of great use / Z. Chen. Properties of nearest-neighbour classifiers / P. Hall. Large covariance matrices: estimation and inference in high dimensions / I.M. Johnstone. Bootstrapping in clustered populations / A.H. Welsh. On the linear aggregation problem in the general Gauss-Markov model / H.J. Werner.

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Features a range of topics in modern statistical theory and methodology, economics and finance, ecology, education, health and sports studies, and computer and IT-data mining. Some of the contributions contain illustrations of the applied methods or photos of historic mathematicians.

Mathematical statistics -- Congresses.

MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.

Probabilities -- Congresses.

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Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma.

Dharmendra Sharma

Peter Brown

Shuangzhe Liu

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