Overview
- Contributors examine recent developments and advances in ranking and selection, multiple comparisons, and reliability
- Open problems existing in the literature are discussed and analyzed
- Various industrial problems are included with illustrations, data sets, and methodologies
- Systematic presentation with sufficient history and coverage of the fundamentals of the subject
- Extensive bibliography, with special emphasis on recent literature; subject index
Part of the book series: Statistics for Industry and Technology (SIT)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Inference
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Ranking and Selection
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Multiple Comparisons and Tests
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Agreement Assessment
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Reliability
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Keywords
About this book
S. Panchapakesan has made significant contributions to ranking and selection and has published in many other areas of statistics, including order statistics, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, and inference. Written in his honor, the twenty invited articles in this volume reflect recent advances in these areas and form a tribute to Panchapakesan’s influence and impact on these areas.
Thematically organized, the chapters cover a broad range of topics from:
- Inference
- Ranking and Selection
- Multiple Comparisons and Tests
- Agreement Assessment
- Reliability
- Biostatistics
Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Thematically organised, the chapters cover a broad range of topics from: inference, ranking and selection, multiple comparisons and tests, agreement assessment, reliability, biostatistics. Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities." —Bulletin Bibliographique
"This book is written in the honor of S. Panchapakesan, whose significant contributions belong to the area of ranking and selection. … The book addresses to a graduate reader … . all of the methods are illustrated by many examples from medicine and engineering. Generally the data sets are taken from real-life." (Liliana Popa, Iasi Polytechnic Magazine, Vol. 18 (1/4), 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability
Book Subtitle: Methodology and Applications
Editors: N. Balakrishnan, H. N. Nagaraja, N. Kannan
Series Title: Statistics for Industry and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138793
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3232-8Published: 15 December 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4422-2Published: 28 December 2007
Series ISSN: 2364-6241
Series E-ISSN: 2364-625X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 412
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance