Bayesian and Likelihood Methods in Statistics and Econometrics
Essays in Honour of George A.Barnard
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 23. November 1989
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Hardback
510 pages
978-0-444-88376-6 (ISBN)
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This volume is dedicated to Professor George A. Barnard, an internationally acclaimed statistician, who is renowned not only for his statistical expertise but also for his broad knowledge of the history of statistics and its relation to the philosophy of science and applications in many fields of natural, biological and social science. The papers in this volume treat a broad spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical inference to applied forecasting and computation, which reflects George Barnard's wide ranging interest in, and work on, theoretical and applied statistical problems.
This volume is dedicated to Professor George A. Barnard, an internationally acclaimed statistician, who is renowned not only for his statistical expertise but also for his broad knowledge of the history of statistics and its relation to the philosophy of science and applications in many fields of natural, biological and social science. The papers in this volume treat a broad spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical inference to applied forecasting and computation, which reflects George Barnard's wide ranging interest in, and work on, theoretical and applied statistical problems.
This volume is dedicated to Professor George A. Barnard, an internationally acclaimed statistician, who is renowned not only for his statistical expertise but also for his broad knowledge of the history of statistics and its relation to the philosophy of science and applications in many fields of natural, biological and social science. The papers in this volume treat a broad spectrum of topics ranging from theoretical inference to applied forecasting and computation, which reflects George Barnard's wide ranging interest in, and work on, theoretical and applied statistical problems.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 220 mm
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978-0-444-88376-6 (9780444883766)
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Introduction. A Survey of George Barnard's Statistical Work. (D.V. Lindley). Foundations (Contributors: A.P. Dempster; B.M. Hill; J.S. Hodges; D.A. Lane). Selected Applications (Contributors: S. Chib, S.R. Jammalamadaka, R.C. Tiwari; L. Denby, R. Gnanadesikan, J.R. Kettenring, J.W. Suzansky; S.E. Fienberg; Y. Hiatovsky; H. Tsurumi). Selected Inference Problems (Contributors: M.J. Bayarri, M.H. DeGroot; L.D. Broemeling, M.S. Son, H.I. Hamdy; C.-H. Chen, J.M. Dickey; G.T. Duncan; M. Ghosh, L.Y. Low, G. Meeden; R.L. Winkler, A. Gaba). Predictive Methods and Applications (Contributors: S. Geisser; R. Klein, S.J. Press; P.J. Lenk; A. Zellner, C. Hong, G.M. Gulati). Incompletely Specified Prior Distributions (Contributors: L.M. Berliner, P.K. Goel; W. Bijak; A. Madansky). Approximations and Computational Methods (Contributors: J.A. Achcar, A.F.M. Smith; J.H. Larkin, J.B. Kadane; R.E. Kass, L. Tierney, J.B. Kadane). Indexes.