Optimality: The Third Erich L. Lehmann Symposium

Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Vol. 57, Optimality: The Third Erich L. Lehmann Symposium (2009), pp. i-xx, 1-352......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 2
Contents\r......Page 4
Contributors to this volume......Page 6
Scientific Program\r......Page 8
Group Photo......Page 14
List Of Participants......Page 15
Preface [pp. v-vi]......Page 20
Erich L. Lehmann, the Lehmann Symposia, and November 20th 1917 [pp. 1-7]......Page 22
The Honorable Erich L. Lehmann [pp. 8-10]......Page 29
Some History of Optimality [pp. 11-17]......Page 32
An Optimality Property of Bayes\' Test Statistics [pp. 18-30]......Page 39
On the Non-Optimality of Optimal Procedures [pp. 31-46]......Page 52
Proportional Hazards Regression with Unknown Link Function [pp. 47-66]......Page 68
Semiparametric Models and Likelihood – The Power of Ranks [pp. 67-92]......Page 88
On Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses [pp. 93-116]......Page 114
Nonparametric Estimation for Lévy Models Based on Discrete-Sampling [pp. 117-146]......Page 138
On the Estimation of Symmetric Distributions under Peakedness Order Constraints [pp. 147-172]......Page 168
A Functional Generalized Linear Model with Curve Selection in Cervical Pre-cancer Diagnosis Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy [pp. 173-189]......Page 194
Nonparametric Estimation of Hemodynamic Response Function: A Frequency Domain Approach [pp. 190-215]......Page 211
Mixed Models, Posterior Means and Penalized Least-Squares [pp. 216-236]......Page 237
From Charged Polymers to Random Walk in Random Scenery [pp. 237-251]......Page 258
Recovery of Distributions via Moments [pp. 252-265]......Page 273
Asymptotic Efficiency of Simple Decisions for the Compound Decision Problem [pp. 266-275]......Page 287
Large Sample Statistical Inference for Skew-Symmetric Families on the Real Line [pp. 276-303]......Page 297
Parametric Mixture Models for Estimating the Proportion of True Null Hypotheses and Adaptive Control of FDR [pp. 304-325]......Page 325
Bayesian Decision Theory for Multiple Comparisons [pp. 326-332]......Page 347
The Challenges of Model Objective Selection and Estimation for Ad-hoc Network Data Sets [pp. 333-347]......Page 354
A Note on the Investment Proportions of a Minimum-Variance Equity Portfolio [pp. 348-352]......Page 369
Back Matter......Page 374