Advances in Statistical Decision Theory and Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-l
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Bayes for Beginners? Some Pedagogical Questions....Pages 3-17
Normal Means Revisited....Pages 19-30
Bayes m-Truncated Sampling Allocations for Selecting the Best Bernoulli Population....Pages 31-47
On Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation and Selection for Multivariate Hypergeometric Distributions....Pages 49-64
Convergence Rates of Empirical Bayes Estimation and Selection for Exponential Populations With Location Parameters....Pages 65-77
Empirical Bayes Rules for Selecting the Best Uniform Populations....Pages 79-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Adaptive Multiple Decision Procedures for Exponential Families....Pages 99-118
Non-Informative Priors Via Sieves and Packing Numbers....Pages 119-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
From Neyman’s Frequentism to the Frequency Validity in the Conditional Inference....Pages 135-150
Asymptotic Theory for the Simex Estimator in Measurement Error Models....Pages 151-164
A Change Point Problem for Some Conditional Functionals....Pages 165-178
On Bias Reduction Methods in Nonparametric Regression Estimation....Pages 179-187
Multiple Comparisons With the Mean....Pages 189-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Properties of Unified Bayesian-Frequentist Tests....Pages 207-223
Likelihood Ratio Tests and Intersection-Union Tests....Pages 225-237
The Large Deviation Principle for Common Statistical Tests Against a Contaminated Normal....Pages 239-252
Multiple Decision Procedures for Testing Homogeneity of Normal Means With Unequal Unknown Variances....Pages 253-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
A Sequential Multinomial Selection Procedure With Elimination....Pages 265-275
An Integrated Formulation for Selecting the Best From Several Normal Populations in Terms of the Absolute Values of Their Means: Common Known Variance Case....Pages 277-289
Applications of Two Majorization Inequalities to Ranking and Selection Problems....Pages 291-301
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Correlation Analysis of Ordered Observations From a Block-Equicorrelated Multivariate Normal Distribution....Pages 305-322
On Distributions With Periodic Failure Rate and Related Inference Problems....Pages 323-341
Venn Diagrams, Coupon Collections, Bingo Games and Dirichlet Distributions....Pages 343-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Control Charts for Autocorrelated Process Data....Pages 371-385
Reconstructive Estimation in a Parametric Random Censorship Model With Incomplete Data....Pages 387-404
A Review of the Gupta-Sobel Subset Selection Rule for Binomial Populations With Industrial Applications....Pages 405-416
The Use of Subset Selection in Combined-Array Experiments to Determine Optimal Product or Process Designs....Pages 417-430
Large-Sample Approximations to the Best Linear Unbiased Estimation and Best Linear Unbiased Prediction Based on Progressively Censored Samples and Some Applications....Pages 431-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-448