Recent Advances in Statistics

ContributorsPrefaceHerman Chernoff: An AppreciationI. 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 TestsII. 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 EstimationIII. 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 StatisticsIV. Statistical Graphics M and N Plots Investigating the Space of Chernoff Faces On Multivariate DisplayV. 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