Advances in Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference

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Advances in Distribution Theory, Order Statistics, and Inference edited by N. Balakrishnan, José María Sarabia, Enrique Castillo. -
LVI, 484 p. online resource. - (Statistics for Industry and Technology, ) Content notes : Discrete Distributions and Applications -- Stochastic Comparisons of Bernoulli Sums and Binomial Random Variables -- Stopped Compound Poisson Process and Related Distributions -- Constructions of Discrete Bivariate Distributions -- Continuous Distributions and Applications -- The Normal-Laplace Distribution and Its Relatives -- Some Observations on a Simple Means of Generating Skew Distributions -- Bivariate Distributions Based on the Generalized Three-Parameter Beta Distribution -- A Kotz-Type Distribution for Multivariate Statistical Inference -- Range of Correlation Matrices for Dependent Random Variables with Given Marginal Distributions -- Multifractional Probabilistic Laws -- Order Statistics and Applications -- Topics in the History of Order Statistics -- Order Statistics from Independent Exponential Random Variables and the Sum of the Top Order Statistics -- Fisher Information and Tukey’s Linear Sensitivity Measure Based on Ordered Ranked Set Samples -- Information Measures for Pareto Distributions and Order Statistics -- Confidence Coefficients of Interpolated Nonparametric Sign Intervals for Medians Under No or Weak Shape Assumptions -- Small Sample Asymptotics for Higher-Order Spacings -- Best Bounds on Expectations of L-Statistics from Bounded Samples -- Reliability and Applications -- The Failure Rates of Mixtures -- Characterizations of the Relative Behavior of Two Systems via Properties of Their Signature Vectors -- Systems with Exchangeable Components and Gumbel Exponential Distribution -- Estimating the Mean of Exponential Distribution from Step-Stress Life Test Data -- Random Stress-Dependent Strength Models Through Bivariate Exponential Conditionals Distributions -- Inference -- Some New Methods for Local Sensitivity Analysis in Statistics -- t-Tests with Models Close to the Normal Distribution -- Computational Aspect of the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Application -- An Objective Bayesian Procedure for Variable Selection in Regression -- On Bayesian and Decision-Theoretic Approaches to Statistical Prediction -- Phi-Divergence-Type Test for Positive Dependence Alternatives in 2×k Contingency Tables -- Dimension Reduction in Multivariate Time Series -- The Hat Problem and Some Variations. 9780817644871 * Distribution (Probability theory. Mathematical statistics. Statistics. Mathematics. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Statistical Theory and Methods. Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. Applications of Mathematics. * Balakrishnan, N., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtSarabia, José María., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtCastillo, Enrique., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt * Title * Series