Title | The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding [electronic resource] / edited by N. I. Fisher, P. K. Sen |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0865-5 |
Descript | XV, 660 p. online resource |
Three Articles Reviewing Hoeffdingโs Work -- Wassily Hoeffdingโ s Work in the Sixties -- The Impact of Wassily Hoeffdingโs Work on Sequential Analysis -- The Impact of Wassily Hoeffdingโs Research on Nonparametrics -- Publications -- Scale-Invariant Correlation Theory (English Translation) -- Scale-Invariant Correlations for Discontinuous Distributions (English Translation) -- Stochastic Dependence and Functional Relationships (English Translation) -- On the Distribution of the Rank Correlation Coefficient r when the Variates are not Independent -- A Class of Statistics with Asymptotically Normal Distribution -- The Central Limit Theorem for Dependent Random Variables (with Herbert Robbins) -- A Non-Parametric Test of Independence -- โOptimumโ Non-Parametric Tests -- A Combinatorial Central Limit Theorem -- The Large-Sample Power of Tests Based on Permutations of Observations -- On the Distribution of the Expected Values of the Order Statistics -- A Lower Bound for the Average Sample Number of a Sequential Test -- Bounds for the Distribution of a Sum of Independent, Identically Distributed Random Variables (with S.S. Shrikhande) -- The Efficiency of Tests (with J.R. Rosenblatt) -- The Extrema of the Expected Value of a Function of Independent Random Variables -- On the Distribution of the Number of Successes in Independent Trials -- The role of Assumptions in Statistical Decisions -- Distinguishability of Sets of Distributions. (The case of Independent and Identically Distributed Random Variables) (with J Wolfowitz) -- Lower Bounds for the Expected Sample Size and the Average Risk of a Sequential Procedure -- An Upper Bound for the Variance of Kendallโs โTauโ and of Related Statistics -- Lower Bounds for the Expected Sample Size of a Sequential Test -- On Sequences of Sums of Independent Random Vectors -- Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables -- On a Theorem of V.M. Zolotarev -- Asymptotically Optimal Tests for Multinomial Distributions (with Discussion) -- On Probabilities of Large Deviations -- Some Recent Developments in Nonparametric Statistics -- Unbiased Coin Tossing with a Biased Coin (with Gordon Simons) -- Discussion of J. Hรกjek, Miscellaneous Problems of Rank Test Theory -- Discussion of H. Witting, On the Theory of Nonparametric Tests -- The L1 norm of the Approximation Error for Bernstein-Type Polynomials -- On the Centering of a Simple Linear Rank Statistic -- The L1 norm of the Approximation Error for Splines with Equidistant Knots -- Harold Hotelling, 1895-1973 -- H.Hotelling -- Some Incomplete and Boundedly Complete Families of Distributions -- More on Incomplete and Boundedly Complete Families of Distributions -- A Statisticianโs Progress from Berlin to Chapel Hill -- Unbiased Range-Preserving Estimators -- Range Preserving Unbiased Estimators in the Multinomial Case -- Entries in The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences edited by S. Kotz, N.L. Johnson and C.B. Read. New York: Wiley -- Book Reviews