Celebrating statistics : papers in honour of Sir David Cox on the occasion of his 80th birthday /
'Celebrating Statistics' is a tribute to Sir David Cox who has had an immense influence on modern statistics. Each chapter presents current developments across a range of research areas from epidemiology, environmental science, finance, computing and medicine.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Oxford statistical science series ;
no. 33. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures; List of plates; List of tables; David R. Cox: A brief biography; 1 Stochastic models for epidemics; 2 Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and vegetation response; 3 Theoretical statistics and asymptotics; 4 Exchangeability and regression models; 5 On semiparametric inference; 6 On non-parametric statistical methods; 7 Some topics in social statistics; 8 Biostatistics: the near future; 9 The early breast cancer trialists' collaborative group: a brief history of results to date; 10 How computing has changed statistics; 11 Are there discontinuities in financial prices?