Contributions to probability and statistics
Subtitle: essays in honor of Harold Hotelling.
By: Edited by Ingram Olkin [and others].
Contributors: Olkin, Ingram, ed.
Series: Stanford studies in mathematics and statistics,; 2; Stanford studies in mathematics and statistics ;; 2.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Hotelling, Harold, 1895-; Probabilities.; Mathematical statistics.
First sentence: Contents:	 Harold Hotelling / William G. Madow -- Harold Hotelling: a leader in mathematical statistics / Jerzy Neyman -- The teaching of statistics / Harold Hotelling -- Bibliography of Harold Hotelling -- Some remarks on the design and analysis of factorial experiments / R.L. Anderson -- A limitation of the optimum property of the sequential probability ratio test / T.W. Anderson and Milton Friedman -- Decision theory and the choice of a level of significance for the t-test / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Simultaneous comparision of the optimum and sign tests of a normal mean / R.R. Bahadur -- Some stochastic models in ecology and epidemiology / M.S. Bartlett -- Random orderings and stochastic theories of responses / H.D. Block and J. Marschak -- On a method of constructing Steiner's triple systems / R.C. Bose -- A representation of Hotelling's T2 and Anderson's classification statistic W in terms of simple statistics / Albert H. Bowker -- Euler squares / Kenneth A. Bush -- A compromise between bias and variance in the use of nonrepresentative samples / Herman Chernoff -- Construction of fractional factorial designs of the mixed 2m 3n series / W. S. Connor -- Application of boundary theory to sums of independent random variables / J.L. Doob, J.L. Snell, and R.E. Williamson -- Some k-sample rank-order tests / Meyer Dwass -- Characterization of some location and scale parameter families of distributions / S.G. Ghurye -- Generalization of some results for inversion of partitioned matrices / B.G. Greenberg and A. E. Sarhan -- Selecting a subset containing the best of several binomial populations / Shanti S. Gupta and Milton Sobel -- Consistency of maximum likelihood estimation of discrete distributions / J. Hannan -- An upper bound for the variance of Kendall's "tau" and of related statistics / Wassily Hoeffding -- On the amount of information contained in a o-field / Gopinath Kallianpur -- The evergreen correction coefficient / M.G. Kendall -- Robust tests for equality of variances / Howard Levene -- Intrablock and interblock estimates / Henry B. Mann and M.V. Menon -- A bivariate Chebyshev inequality for symmetric convex polygons / Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin -- Notes on the numerical convergence of iterative processes / Sigeiti Moriguti -- Prediction in future samples / George E. Nicholson, Jr. -- Ranking in triple comparisons / R.N. Pendergrass and R.A. Bradley -- A statistical screening problem / Herbert Robbins -- On the power of some rank-order two-sample tests / Joan Raup Rosenblatt -- Some non-parametric analogs of "normal" ANOVA, MANOVA, and of studies in "normal" association / S.N. Roy and V.P. Bhapkar -- Relations between certain incomplete block designs / S.S. Shrikhande -- Infinitesimal renewal processes / Walter L. Smith -- Classification procedures based on dichotomous response vectors / Herbert Solomon -- Multiple regression/ Charles Stein -- An optimum replicated two-sample test using ranks / Milton E. Terry -- A survey of sampling from contaminated distributions / John W. Tukey -- Multidimensional statistical scatter / S.S. Wilks -- Convergence of the empiric distribution function on half-spaces / J. Wolfowitz -- Analysis of two-factor classifications with respect to life tests / M. Zelen.
Notes: Includes bibliographies. "Bibliography of Harold Hotelling": p. 25-32.