Advances in statistical modeling and inference essays in honor of Kjell A. Doksum (World Scientific, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface; Contents; Kjell Doksum: Family, Career, and Contributions; Reminiscences of a 40-year Friendship Peter J. Bickel; Part 0: Statistics and Soccer; Part 1: Survival Analysis; Part 2: Reliability Techniques; Part 3: Semiparametric Methods; Part 4: Transformation Models; Part 5: Nonparametric Regression; Part 6: Clustering and Mixture Models; Part 7: Bayesian Nonparametric Inference; Part 8: Rank-Based Methods; Part 9: Monte Carlo and Resampling Methods; Part 10: Constrained Inference; Subject Index
There have been major developments in the field of statistics over the last quarter century, spurred by the rapid advances in computing and data-measurement technologies. These developments have revolutionized the field and have greatly influenced research directions in theory and methodology. Increased computing power has spawned entirely new areas of research in computationally-intensive methods, allowing us to move away from narrowly applicable parametric techniques based on restrictive assumptions to much more flexible and realistic models and methods. These computational advances have als