Selected Works of C.C. Heyde [electronic resource] /
Heyde, C. C.
Maller, Ross.editor.
Basawa, Ishwar.editor.
Hall, Peter.editor.
Seneta, Eugene.editor.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor C.C. (Chris) Heyde (1939-2008), distinguished statistician, mathematician and scientist. Chris worked at a time when many of the foundational building blocks of probability and statistics were being put in place by a phalanx of eminent scientists around the world. He contributed significantly to this effort and took his place deservedly among the top-most rank of researchers. Throughout his career, Chris maintained also a keen interest in applications of probability and statistics, and in the history of the subject. The magnitude of his impact on his chosen area of research, both in Australia and internationally, was well recognised by the abundance of honours he received within and without the profession. The book is comprised of a number of Chris's papers covering each one of four major topics to which he contributed. These papers are reproduced herein. The topics, and the papers in them, were selected by four of Chris's friends and collaborators: Ishwar Basawa, Peter Hall, Ross Maller (overall Editor of the volume) and Eugene Seneta. Each topic is provided with an overview by the selecting editor. The topics cover a range of areas to which Chris made especially important contributions: Inference in Stochastic Processes, Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem, the Law of the Iterated Logarithm, and Branching Processes and Population Genetics. The Editor and the other contributors to the volume include well known researchers in probability and statistics. The collection begins with an "author's pick" of a number of his papers which Chris considered most interesting and significant, chosen by him shortly before his death. A biography of Chris by his close friend and collaborator, Joe Gani, is also included. An introduction by the Editor and a comprehensive bibliography of Chris's publications complete the volume. The book will be of especial interest to researchers in probability and statistics, and in the history of these subjects.
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Author's Pick -- Chris Heyde's Contribution to Inference in Stochastic Processes -- Chris Heyde's Work on Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem -- Chris Heyde's Work in Probability Theory, with an Emphasis on the LIL -- Chris Heyde on Branching Processes and Population Genetics -- On a Property of the Lognormal Distribution -- Two Probability Theorems and Their Application to Some First Passage Problems -- Some Renewal Theorems with Application to a First Passage Problem -- Some Results on Small-Deviation Probability Convergence Rates for Sums of Independent Random Variables -- A Contribution to the Theory of Large Deviations for Sums of Independent Random Variables -- On Large Deviation Problems for Sums of Random Variables which are not Attracted to the Normal Law -- On the Influence of Moments on the Rate of Convergence to the Normal Distribution -- On Large Deviation Probabilities in the Case of Attraction to a Non-Normal Stable Law -- On the Converse to the Iterated Logarithm Law -- A Note Concerning Behaviour of Iterated Logarithm Type -- On Extended Rate of Convergence Results for the Invariance Principle -- On the Maximum of Sums of Random Variables and the Supremum Functional for Stable Processes -- Some Properties of Metrics in a Study on Convergence to Normality -- Extension of a Result of Seneta for the Super-Critical Galton-Watson Process -- On the Implication of a Certain Rate of Convergence to Normality -- A Rate of Convergence Result for the Super-Critical Galton-Watson Process -- On the Departure from Normality of a Certain Class of Martingales -- Some Almost Sure Convergence Theorems for Branching Processes -- Some Central Limit Analogues for Supercritical Galton-Watson Processes -- An Invariance Principle and Some Convergence Rate Results for Branching Processes -- Improved classical limit analogues for Galton-Watson processes with or without immigration -- Analogues of Classical Limit Theorems for the Supercritical Galton-Watson Process with Immigration -- On Limit Theorems for Quadratic Functions of Discrete Time Series -- Martingales: A Case for a Place in the Statistician's Repertoire -- On the Influence of Moments on Approximations by Portion of a Chebyshev Series in Central Limit Convergence -- Estimation Theory for Growth and Immigration Rates in a Multiplicative Process -- An Iterated Logarithm Result for Martingales and its Application in Estimation Theory for Autoregressive Processes -- On the Uniform Metric in the Context of Convergence to Normality -- Invariance Principles for the Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Martingales and Processes with Stationary Increments -- An Iterated Logarithm Result for Autocorrelations of a Stationary Linear Process -- On Estimating the Variance of the Offspring Distribution in a Simple Branching Process -- A Nonuniform Bound on Convergence to Normality -- Remarks on efficiency in estimation for branching processes -- The Genetic Balance between Random Sampling and Random Population Size -- On a unified approach to the law of the iterated logarithm for martingales -- The Effect of Selection on Genetic Balance when the Population Size is Varying -- On Central Limit and Iterated Logarithm Supplements to the Martingale Convergence Theorem -- A Log Log Improvement to the Riemann Hypothesis for the Hawkins Random Sieve -- On an Optimal Asymptotic Property of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Parameter from a Stochastic Process -- On Asymptotic Posterior Normality for Stochastic Processes -- On the Survival of a Gene Represented in a Founder Population -- An alternative approach to asymptotic results on genetic composition when the population size is varying -- On the Asymptotic Equivalence of Lp Metrics for Convergence to Normality -- Quasi-likelihood and Optimal Estimation -- Fisher Lecture -- On Best Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Parameters of Stochastic Processes -- A quasi-likelihood approach to estimating parameters in diffusion-type processes -- Asymptotic Optimality -- On Defining Long-Range Dependence -- A Risky Asset Model with Strong Dependence through Fractal Activity Time -- Statistical estimation of nonstationary Gaussian processes with long-range dependence and intermittency.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor C.C. (Chris) Heyde (1939-2008), distinguished statistician, mathematician and scientist. Chris worked at a time when many of the foundational building blocks of probability and statistics were being put in place by a phalanx of eminent scientists around the world. He contributed significantly to this effort and took his place deservedly among the top-most rank of researchers. Throughout his career, Chris maintained also a keen interest in applications of probability and statistics, and in the history of the subject. The magnitude of his impact on his chosen area of research, both in Australia and internationally, was well recognised by the abundance of honours he received within and without the profession. The book is comprised of a number of Chris's papers covering each one of four major topics to which he contributed. These papers are reproduced herein. The topics, and the papers in them, were selected by four of Chris's friends and collaborators: Ishwar Basawa, Peter Hall, Ross Maller (overall Editor of the volume) and Eugene Seneta. Each topic is provided with an overview by the selecting editor. The topics cover a range of areas to which Chris made especially important contributions: Inference in Stochastic Processes, Rates of Convergence in the Central Limit Theorem, the Law of the Iterated Logarithm, and Branching Processes and Population Genetics. The Editor and the other contributors to the volume include well known researchers in probability and statistics. The collection begins with an "author's pick" of a number of his papers which Chris considered most interesting and significant, chosen by him shortly before his death. A biography of Chris by his close friend and collaborator, Joe Gani, is also included. An introduction by the Editor and a comprehensive bibliography of Chris's publications complete the volume. The book will be of especial interest to researchers in probability and statistics, and in the history of these subjects.
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