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BL
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947136
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b701506
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| Title & Author
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Stochastic musings : : perspectives from the pioneers of the late 20th century : a volume in celebration of the 13 years of the Department of Statistics of the Athens University of Economics Business in honour of Professors C. Kevork P. Tzortzopoulos /\ edited by John Panaretos.
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Mahwah, N.J. :: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,, 2003.
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1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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141060912X
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: 9781410609120
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080584614X
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Sample Ordering for Effective Statistical Inference with Particular Reference to Environmental Issues / Vic Barnett -- A Unified Statistical Approach to Some Measurement Problems in the Social Sciences / David Bartholomew -- Some Remarks on Statistical Aspects of Econometrics / David R. Cox -- The Statistical Century / Bradley Efron -- From Association to Causation: Some Remarks on the History of Statistics / David Freedman -- Scanning a Lattice for a Particular Pattern / Joe Gani -- Mixtures Everywhere / Dimitris Karlis & Evdokia Xekalaki -- New Paradigms (Models) for Probability Sampling / Leslie Kish -- Limit Distributions of Uncorrelated but Dependent Distributions on the Unit Square / Samuel Kotz & Norman L. Johnson -- Latent Variable Models with Covariates / Irini Moustaki -- Some New Elliptical Distributions / Saralees Nadarajah & Samuel Kotz -- Extreme Value Index Estimators and Smoothing Alternatives: A Critical Review / John Panaretos & Zoi Tsourti -- On Convex Sets of Multivariate Distributions and Their Extreme Points / Radhakrishna C. Rao, Bhaskara M. Rao & Damodar N. Shanbhag -- The Lifespan of a Renewal / Jef Teugels -- Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Genetic Effects / Wolfgang Urfer & Katharina Emrich -- A Predictive Model Evaluation and Selection Approach: The Correlated Gamma Ratio Distribution / Evdokia Xekalaki, John Panaretos & Stelios Psarakis -- Convergence Rate Estimates in Functional Limit Theorems / Vladimir M. Zolotarev.
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| Abstract
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This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is the only book to assemble the views of these leading scientists--the pioneers in their respective fields.
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Statistics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Statistics.
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Statistics.
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| Dewey Classification
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310
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QA276.16.S849 2003eb
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Kevork, Kōnst. Ēl.,1928-
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Panaretos, John.
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Tzōrtzopoulos, P. Th.
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