Statistics in the 21st Century 1st Edition by Adrian Raftery, Martin Tanner, Martin Wells ISBN 9781584882725 1584882725

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ISBN 10:  1584882725 

ISBN 13: 9781584882725

Author: Adrian E. Raftery, Martin A. Tanner, Martin T. Wells

This volume discusses an important area of statistics and highlights the most important statistical advances. It is divided into four sections: statistics in the life and medical sciences, business and social science, the physical sciences and engineering, and theory and methods of statistics.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

Adrian E. Raftery, Martin A. Tanner, and Martin T. Wells

Statistics in the Life and Medical Sciences

Guest Editor: Norman E. Breslow (University of Washington, USA)

• Survival Analysis – David Oakes

• Causal Analysis in the Health Sciences – Sander Greenland

• Environmental Statistics – Peter Guttorp

• Capture-Recapture Models – Kenneth H. Pollock

• Statistics in Animal Breeding – Daniel Gianola

• Some Issues in Assessing Human Fertility – Clarice R. Weinberg and David B. Dunson

• Statistical Issues in Toxicology – Louise M. Ryan

• Receiver Operating Characteristic Methodology – Margaret Sullivan Pepe

• The Randomized Clinical Trial – David P. Harrington

• Some Contributions of Statistics to Environmental Epidemiology – Duncan C. Thomas

• Challenges Facing Statistical Genetics – B. S. Weir

• Computational Molecular Biology – Wing Hung Wong

Statistics in Business and Social Science

Guest Editor: Mark P. Becker (University of Michigan, USA)

• Finance: A Selective Survey – Andrew W. Lo

• Statistics and Marketing – Peter E. Rossi and Greg M. Allenby

• Time Series and Forecasting: Brief History and Future Research – Ruey S. Tsay

• Contingency Tables and Log-Linear Models: Basic Results and New Developments – Stephen E. Fienberg

• Causal Inference in the Social Sciences – Michael E. Sobel

• Political Methodology: A Welcoming Discipline – Nathaniel L. Beck

• Statistics in Sociology, 1950–2000 – Adrian E. Raftery

• Psychometrics – Michael W. Browne

• Empirical Methods and the Law – Theodore Eisenberg

• Demography: Past, Present, and Future – Yu Xie

Statistics in the Physical Sciences and Engineering

Guest Editor: Diane Lambert (Bell Labs, USA)

• Challenges in Understanding the Atmosphere – Doug Nychka

• Seismology: A Statistical Vignette – David Vere-Jones

• Internet Traffic Data – William S. Cleveland and Don X. Sun

• Coding and Compression: A Happy Union of Theory and Practice – Jorma Rissanen and Bin Yu

• Statistics in Reliability – Jerry Lawless

• The State of Statistical Process Control as We Proceed into the 21st Century – Zachary G. Stoumbos, Marion R. Reynolds Jr., Thomas P. Ryan, and William H. Woodall

• Statistics in Preclinical Pharmaceutical Research and Development – Bert Gunter and Dan Holder

• Statistics in Advanced Manufacturing – Vijay Nair, Mark Hansen, and Jan Shi

Theory and Methods

Guest Editor: George Casella (University of Florida, USA)

• Bayesian Analysis: A Look at Today and Thoughts of Tomorrow – James O. Berger

• An Essay on Statistical Decision Theory – Lawrence D. Brown

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo: 10 Years and Still Running – Olivier Cappe and Christian P. Robert

• Empirical Bayes: Past, Present and Future – Bradley P. Carlin and Thomas A. Louis

• Linear and Log-Linear Models – Ronald Christensen

• The Bootstrap and Modern Statistics – Bradley Efron

• Prospects of Nonparametric Modeling – Jianqing Fan

• Gibbs Sampling – Alan E. Gelfand

• The Variable Selection Problem – Edward I. George

• Robust Nonparametric Methods – Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Joseph W. McKean, and Simon J. Sheather

• Hierarchical Models: A Current Computational Perspective – James P. Hobert

• Hypothesis Testing: From p Values to Bayes Factors – John I. Marden

• Generalized Linear Models – Charles E. McCulloch

• Missing Data: Dial M for ??? – Xiao-Li Meng

• A Robust Journey in the New Millennium – Stephen Portnoy and Xuming He

• Likelihood – Nancy Reid

• Conditioning, Likelihood, and Coherence: A Review of Some Foundational Concepts – James Robins and Larry Wasserman

• The End of Time Series – V. Solo

• Principal Information Theoretic Approaches – Ehsan S. Soofi

• Measurement Error Models – L. A. Stefanski

• Higher Order Asymptotic Approximation: Laplace, Saddlepoint, and Related Methods – Robert L. Strawderman

• Minimaxity – William E. Strawderman

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