Crossing Boundaries: Statistical Essays in Honor of Jack Hall (Lecture Notes-Monograph)

cover page......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
List of Methodological Publications by Jack Hall, to 2002......Page 10
Testing for a treatment-by-stratum interaction in a sequential clinical trial......Page 13
Bias of estimates of secondary parameters in linear-boundary sequential tests......Page 25
Asymptotic design of general triangular stopping boundaries for Brownian motion......Page 41
A simple low-bias estimate following a sequential test with linear boundaries......Page 59
A goodness-of-fit test for a receiver operating characteristic curve from continuous diagnostic test data......Page 71
Efficient estimation in a semiparametric heteroscedastic autoregressive model......Page 81
Gaussian white noise models: some results for monotone functions......Page 99
Inference for the proportional mean residual life model......Page 117
Bayesian inference for survival data with a surviving fraction......Page 129
Continuity correction for the score statistic in discrete regression models......Page 151
Saddlepoint approximations of the two-sample Wilcoxon statistic......Page 161
A class of parameter functions for which the unbiased estimator does not exist......Page 171
The sample size for estimating the binomial parameter with a given margin of error......Page 177
On a binomial admissibility problem in honor of Jack Hall on his 70th birthday......Page 195
Some heuristics for analysis of variance......Page 209
The fundamental theorem of least squares: its relevance to experimental design and Bayesian inference......Page 215
Challenges in the information sciences for statisticians......Page 221
What use is statistics for massive data?......Page 229
Forecasting health care expenditures and utilization based on a Markov process and a deterministic cost function in managed care settings......Page 241