Overview
- Features research topics inspired by the substantial contributions of Professor Barry C. Arnold to probability and statistics, in areas such as distribution theory, order statistics, stochastic processes, statistical modeling, characterizations, inequality measurement, multivariate distributions, and statistical inference
- Provides the timely updates and recent developments on some essential and emerging areas of probability, statistics, and biostatistics
- Presents some novel statistical methodologies and theories and the related important future research directions as well as potential practical applications in social sciences, economics, engineering, and medical sciences
Part of the book series: Emerging Topics in Statistics and Biostatistics (ETSB)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Univariate Distribution Theory
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General
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Statistical Inference
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Distinguished University Professor, is in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Professor Balakrishnan is an internationally recognized expert on many areas of statistics, including statistical distribution theory and ordered data analysis. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Statistics (Taylor & Francis), and was previously the Editor-in-Chief for the revised version of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (John Wiley & Sons). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and in 2016 he received an Honorary Doctorate from The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Hon Keung Tony Ng is a Professor of Statistical Science with the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA. He is an associate editor of Communications in Statistics, Computational Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Naval Research Logistics, Sequential Analysis and Statistics & Probability Letters. His research interests include reliability, censoring methodology, ordered data analysis, nonparametric methods, and statistical inference. He is the co-editor of Ordered Data Analysis, Modeling and Health Research Methods, Statistical Modeling for Degradation Data, and Statistical Quality Technologies: Theory and Practice (all published by Springer). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected senior member of IEEE and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Statistics - Theory and Applications
Book Subtitle: Honoring the Contributions of Barry C. Arnold in Statistical Science
Editors: Indranil Ghosh, N. Balakrishnan, Hon Keung Tony Ng
Series Title: Emerging Topics in Statistics and Biostatistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62900-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62899-4Published: 01 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62902-1Published: 02 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62900-7Published: 01 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7735
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7743
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 421
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Biostatistics, Bayesian Inference