Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability: Methodology and Applications

✍ Scribed by C. R. Rao (auth.), N. Balakrishnan, H. N. Nagaraja, N. Kannan (eds.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 438
• Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

S. Panchapakesan has made significant contributions to ranking and selection and has published in many other areas of statistics, including order statistics, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, and inference. Written in his honor, the twenty invited articles in this volume reflect recent advances in these fields and form a tribute to Panchapakesan’s influence and impact on these areas.

Thematically organized, the chapters cover a broad range of topics from:

* Inference

* Ranking and Selection

* Multiple Comparisons and Tests

* Agreement Assessment

* Reliability

* Biostatistics

Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Score Test: Historical Review and Recent Developments....Pages 3-20
EM Algorithm and Optimal Censoring Schemes for Progressively Type-II Censored Bivariate Normal Data....Pages 21-45
Inference Guided Data Exploration....Pages 47-63
Discriminating Between Normal and Laplace Distributions....Pages 65-79
A Simple Classification Rule for Directional Data....Pages 81-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
On Some Ranking and Selection Procedures for MANOVA Models with Applications....Pages 93-116
A Restricted Subset Selection Rule for Selecting At Least One of the t Best Normal Populations in Terms of Their Means: Common Known Variance Case....Pages 117-131
Selecting the Best Population with Two Controls: An Empirical Bayes Approach....Pages 133-142
Simultaneous Selection of Extreme Populations: Optimal Two-stage Decision Rules....Pages 143-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Comparing Variances of Several Measurement Methods Using a Randomized Block Design with Repeat Measurements: A Case Study....Pages 165-178
Impact of Missing Data and Imputation Methods on Multiple Test Procedures....Pages 179-189
Asymptotic Second-order Efficiency for Two-stage Multiple Comparisons with Components of a Linear Function of Mean Vectors....Pages 191-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Measuring Agreement in Method Comparison Studies — A Review....Pages 215-244
Measures of Concordance for Assessing Agreement in Ratings and Rank Order Data....Pages 245-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Cost-effective Analysis of Optimal Order-replacement Policies....Pages 267-301
Estimating Reliabilities Following Purely Sequential Sampling from Exponential Populations....Pages 303-332
Empirical Bayes Estimation of Mean Lifetime for an Exponential Distribution: Unequal Sample Sizes Case....Pages 333-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Bayesian Analysis of Mixtures of Improper Survival Distributions....Pages 353-368
Multivariate Survival Analysis with PVF Frailty Models....Pages 369-384
A Two-stage Design for Choosing Among Experimental Treatments in Clinical Trials....Pages 385-409

✦ Subjects

Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance