Advances in the Statistical Sciences: Foundations of Statistical Inference

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Probability and the Future of Statistics

   • A. P. Dempster

   Pages 1-7

3. A Neyman-Pearson-Wald View of Fiducial Probability

   • Colin R. Blyth, James V. Bondar

   Pages 9-20

4. Statistical Principles and Tangent Models

   • M. Evans, D. A. S. Fraser, G. Monette

   Pages 21-29

5. Data Based Choice of an Ancillary Statistic

   • V. P. Godambe

   Pages 31-38

6. Bernoulli Pairs with Invariant Reversals: An Example of Partial Likelihood

   • Dennis V. Lindley

   Pages 39-50

7. A Decision-Likelihood Solution to the Problem of Comparing Two Simple Hypotheses

   • André Plante

   Pages 51-62

8. Statistical Inference for the Overlap Hypothesis

   • Larry V. Hedges, Ingram Olkin

   Pages 63-72

9. Bayesian Method of Detecting Change Point in Regression and Growth Curve Models

   • I. Guttman, M. S. Srivastava

   Pages 73-91

10. How Much Improvement can a Shrinkage Estimator Give?

    • James V. Bondar

    Pages 93-103

11. On Shrinkage and Preliminary Test M-Estimation in a Parallelism Problem

    • A. K. Ehsanes Saleh, Pranab Kumar Sen

    Pages 105-119

12. An Algorithm for Concave Regression

    • D. A. S. Fraser, H. Massam

    Pages 121-132

13. On the Prediction of the Difference between Responses from Two Linear Models

    • M. Safiul Haq

    Pages 133-138

14. On Ultrastructural Relationships Models

    • D. S. Tracy, K. G. Jinadasa

    Pages 139-147

15. Testing for the Nullity of the Multiple Correlation Coefficient with Incomplete Multivariate Data

    • Serge B. Provost

    Pages 149-161

16. Missing Value Problems in Multiple Linear Regression with Two Independent Variables

    • M. A. Ali

    Pages 163-182

17. A Bound for the Tail Area of the t Distribution for Samples from a Symmetrically Truncated Normal Population

    • M. M. Ali

    Pages 183-187

18. Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Stochastically Ordered Multinomial Populations with Fixed and Random Zeros

    • Chu-In Charles Lee

    Pages 189-197

19. On the Definition of Asymptotic Expectation

    • Masafumi Akahira, Kei Takeuchi

    Pages 199-208

20. Robust Techniques for Quantifying Categorical Data

    • Shizuhiko Nishisato

    Pages 209-217

On May 27-31, 1985, a series of symposia was held at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Pro­ fessor V. M. Joshi. These symposia were chosen to reflect Professor Joshi's research interests as well as areas of expertise in statistical science among faculty in the Departments of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, Economics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Philosophy. From these symposia, the six volumes which comprise the "Joshi Festschrift" have arisen. The 117 articles in this work reflect the broad interests and high quality of research of those who attended our conference. We would like to thank all of the contributors for their superb cooperation in helping us to complete this project. Our deepest gratitude must go to the three people who have spent so much of their time in the past year typing these volumes: Jackie Bell, Lise Constant, and Sandy Tarnowski. This work has been printed from "camera ready" copy produced by our Vax 785 computer and QMS Lasergraphix printers, using the text processing software TEX. At the initiation of this project, we were neophytes in the use of this system. Thank you, Jackie, Lise, and Sandy, for having the persistence and dedication needed to complete this undertaking.

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• Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Ian B. MacNeill, Gary J. Umphrey, M. Safiul Haq, Serge B. Provost

• Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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