Foundations of Statistical Inference: Proceedings of the Shoresh Conference 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Bounding Entries in Multi-way Contingency Tables Given a Set of Marginal Totals....Pages 3-16
Identification and Estimation with Incomplete Data....Pages 17-29
Computational Information Retrieval....Pages 31-42
Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice....Pages 43-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Some Interactive Decision Problems Emerging in Statistical Games....Pages 59-68
Probabilistic Modelling: An Historical and Philosophical Digression....Pages 69-76
A Bayesian View on Sampling the 2 X 2 Table....Pages 77-87
Bayesian Designs for Binomial Experiments....Pages 89-97
On the Second Order Minimax Improvement of the Sample Mean in the Estimation of a Mean Value of the Exponential Dispersion Family....Pages 99-105
Bayesian Analysis of Cell Migration — Linking Experimental Data and Theoretical Models....Pages 107-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Sequential Bayes Detection of Trend Changes....Pages 117-130
Box—Cox Transformation for Semiparametric Comparison of Two Samples....Pages 131-139
Minimax Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Testing....Pages 141-152
Testing Randomness on the Basis of the Number of Different Patterns....Pages 153-165
The π* Index as a New Alternative for Assessing Goodness of Fit of Logistic Regression....Pages 167-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Consistent Estimation of Early and Frequent Change Points....Pages 181-193
Asymptotic Behaviour of Estimators of the Parameters of Nearly Unstable INAR(1) Models....Pages 195-206
Guessing the Output of a Stationary Binary Time Series....Pages 207-215
Asymptotic Expansions for Long-Memory Stationary Gaussian Processes....Pages 217-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-230