Recent Advances in Statistics

Contributors

Preface

Herman Chernoff: An Appreciation

I. Sequential Analysis Including Designs

Optimal Stopping of Brownian Motion: A Comparison Technique

Sequential Design of Comparative Clinical Trials

The Cramér-Rao Inequality Holds Almost Everywhere

A Two-Sample Sequential Test for Shift with One Sample Size Fixed in Advance

On Sequential Rank Tests

II. Optimization Including Control Theory

A Non-Homogeneous Markov Model of a Chain-Letter Scheme

Set-Valued Parameters and Set-Valued Statistics

Optimal Sequential Decisions in Problems Involving More than One Decision Maker

An Averaging Method for Stochastic Approximations with Discontinuous Dynamics, Constraints, and State Dependent Noise

Enlighted Approximations in Optimal Stopping

Survey of Classical and Bayesian Approaches to the Change-Point Problem: Fixed Sample and Sequential Procedures of Testing and Estimation

III. Nonparametrics Including Large Sample Theory

Large Deviations of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate in the Markov Chain Case

Bayesian Density Estimation by Mixtures of Normal Distribution

An Extension of a Theorem of H. Chernoff and E. L. Lehmann

The Limiting Behavior of Multiple Roots of the Likelihood Equation

On Some Recursive Residual Rank Tests for Change-Points

Optimal Uniform Rate of Convergence for Nonparametric Estimators of a Density Function and Its Derivatives

Ranks and Order Statistics

IV. Statistical Graphics

M and N Plots

Investigating the Space of Chernoff Faces

On Multivariate Display

V. Other Topics

Minimax Estimation of the Mean of a Normal Distribution Subject to Doing Well at a Point

Some New Dichotomous Regression Methods

The Application of Spline Functions to the Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Methotrexate Infused into Malignant Effusions

Selecting Representative Points in Normal Populations

Least Informative Distributions

Significance Levels, Confidence Levels, Closed Regions, Closed Models, and Discrete Distributions