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Parametric and Nonparametric Inference from Record-Breaking Data

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Authors:
  1. Sneh Gulati

    1. Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA

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  2. William J. Padgett

    1. Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics (LNS, volume 172)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 1-4

  3. Preliminaries and Early Work

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 5-9

  4. Parametric Inference

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 11-32

  5. Nonparametric Inference—Genesis

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 33-44

  6. Smooth Function Estimation

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 45-65

  7. Bayesian Models

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 67-80

  8. Record Models with Trend

    • Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett
    Pages 81-104

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 105-117
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About this book

As statisticians, we are constantly trying to make inferences about the underlying population from which data are observed. This includes estimation and prediction about the underlying population parameters from both complete and incomplete data. Recently, methodology for estimation and prediction from incomplete data has been found useful for what is known as "record-breaking data," that is, data generated from setting new records. There has long been a keen interest in observing all kinds of records-in particular, sports records, financial records, flood records, and daily temperature records, to mention a few. The well-known Guinness Book of World Records is full of this kind of record information. As usual, beyond the general interest in knowing the last or current record value, the statistical problem of prediction of the next record based on past records has also been an important area of record research. Probabilistic and statistical models to describe behavior and make predictions from record-breaking data have been developed only within the last fifty or so years, with a relatively large amount of literature appearing on the subject in the last couple of decades. This book, written from a statistician's perspective, is not a compilation of "records," rather, it deals with the statistical issues of inference from a type of incomplete data, record-breaking data, observed as successive record values (maxima or minima) arising from a phenomenon or situation under study. Prediction is just one aspect of statistical inference based on observed record values.

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 New record values in sports, finances, climate, ... are of interest to most people, and for about half a century, probabilists and statisticians have taken up the challenge of modelling their behaviour. The present monograph provides results on statistical inference problems for record-breaking data. For example: how to fit a parametric or nonparametric model to such data? Or also: how to predict the next record, based on the values of the past records. The main body of the book (Chapters 4-7) is a discussion of all the known work on nonparametric inference for this type of data.

The book will be a useful reference for researchers in this area. There could also be interest from engineers working in destructive stress testing and quality control.

ISI Short Book Reviews, Vol. 23/2, August 2003

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, Florida International University, Miami, USA

    Sneh Gulati

  • Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    William J. Padgett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Parametric and Nonparametric Inference from Record-Breaking Data

  • Authors: Sneh Gulati, William J. Padgett

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21549-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-00138-8Published: 27 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21549-5Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0325

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7186

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 117

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods

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