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Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

Volume 4 — Models, Structures, and Characterizations, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, July 10 – August 1, 1980

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Charles Taillie

    1. Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  2. Ganapati P. Patil

    1. Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  3. Bruno A. Baldessari

    1. Instituto di Calcolo delle Probabilità, Facoltà di Scienze Statistische Demografiche e Attuariali, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Continuous Models

    1. Statistical Predictive Distributions

      • J. Aitchison
      Pages 1-17

    2. Hyperbolic Distributions and Ramifications: Contributions to Theory and Application

      • O. Barndorff-Nielsen, P. Blaesild
      Pages 19-44

    3. Multivariate Distributions of Hyperbolic Type

      • P. Blaesild, J. L. Jensen
      Pages 45-66

    4. The Multimodal Exponential Families of Statistical Catastrophe Theory

      • Loren Cobb
      Pages 67-90

    5. Regression Models for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution

      • J. Leroy Folks, Anne S. Davis
      Pages 91-97

    6. A Note on the Inverse Gaussian Distribution

      • V. Seshadri
      Pages 99-103

    7. Some Properties of the Log-Laplace Distribution

      • V. R. R. Uppuluri
      Pages 105-110

    8. Compound Distributions Relevant to Life Testing

      • J. J. J. Roux, P. J. Becker
      Pages 111-124

    9. Distributions Associated with Neutrality Properties for Random Proportions

      • Ian James
      Pages 125-136

    10. The Independence of Size and Shape before and after Scale Change

      • James E. Mosimann, James D. Malley
      Pages 137-145

    11. Distributions on the Simplex for the Analysis of Neutrality

      • J. Aitchison
      Pages 147-156

  3. Discrete Models

    1. Chance Mechanisms for the Univariate Generalized Waring Distribution and Related Characterizations

      • Evdokia Xekalaki
      Pages 157-171

    2. On a New Family of Discrete Distributions

      • Carlo Ferreri
      Pages 173-180

    3. On the Stirling Distribution of the First Kind

      • Ramalingam Shanmugam, Jagbir Singh
      Pages 181-187

    4. On the Moments and Factorial Moments of a MPSD

      • Pushpa Lata Gupta, Jagbir Singh
      Pages 189-195

    5. On Bivariate Discrete Distributions Generated by Compounding

      • Theophilos Cacoullos, H. Papageorgiou
      Pages 197-212

    6. Bivariate Generalized Discrete Distributions and Bipartitional Polynomials

      • Ch. A. Charalambides
      Pages 213-223

    7. A Bivariate Hyper-Poisson Distribution

      • Munir Ahmad
      Pages 225-230

    8. On the Multinomial Distributions Generated by Stochastic Matrices and Applications

      • B. Gyires
      Pages 231-242
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Charles Taillie, Ganapati P. Patil

  • Instituto di Calcolo delle Probabilità, Facoltà di Scienze Statistische Demografiche e Attuariali, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy

    Bruno A. Baldessari

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 4 — Models, Structures, and Characterizations, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, July 10 – August 1, 1980

  • Editors: Charles Taillie, Ganapati P. Patil, Bruno A. Baldessari

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8549-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1332-2Published: 30 September 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8551-3Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8549-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 455

  • Topics: Mathematics, general, Statistical Theory and Methods, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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