Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics. Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Purdue University, May 17–19, 1976

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SYMPOSIUM, Pages ix-xi
PREFACE, Page xiii
SELECTING THE LARGEST INTERACTION IN A TWO-FACTOR EXPERIMENT, Pages 1-18, Robert E. Bechhofer, Thomas J. Santner, Bruce W. Turnbull
IMPROVED MINIMAX ESTIMATORS OF NORMAL MEAN VECTORS FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF COVARIANCE MATRICES, Pages 19-36, James O. Berger, M.E. Bock
ON SELECTING A SET OF GOOD POPULATIONS, Pages 37-55, P.J. Bickel, J.A. Yahav
CLOSURE THEOREMS FOR SEQUENTIAL-DESIGN PROCESSES, Pages 57-91, Lawrence D. Brown
A SUBSET SELECTION PROBLEM EMPLOYING A NEW CRITERION, Pages 93-119, Herman Chernoff, Joseph Yahav
EXAMPLES RELEVANT TO THE ROBUSTNESS OF APPLIED INFERENCES, Pages 121-138, A.P. Dempster
ON SOME Γ-MINIMAX SELECTION AND MULTIPLE COMPARISON PROCEDURES, Pages 139-155, Shanti S. Gupta, Deng-Yuan Huang
MORE ON INCOMPLETE AND BOUNDEDLY COMPLETE FAMILIES OF DISTRIBUTIONS, Pages 157-164, Wassily Hoeffding
ROBUST COVARIANCES, Pages 165-191, Peter J. Huber
ASYMPTOTICALLY MINIMAX ESTIMATION OF CONCAVE AND CONVEX DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. II, Pages 193-211, J. Kiefer, J. Wolfowitz
SEQUENTIAL DECISION ABOUT A NORMAL MEAN, Pages 213-221, T.L. Lai, Herbert Robbins, D. Siegmund
A REDUCTION THEOREM FOR CERTAIN SEQUENTIAL EXPERIMENTS, Pages 223-244, L. Le Cam
ROBUST DESIGNS FOR REGRESSION PROBLEMS, Pages 245-268, Michael B. Marcus, Jerome Sacks
LARGE SAMPLE PROPERTIES OF NEAREST NEIGHBOR DENSITY FUNCTION ESTIMATORS, Pages 269-279, David S. Moore, James W. Yackel
A STOCHASTIC VERSION OF WEAK MAJORIZATION, WITH APPLICATIONS, Pages 281-296, S.E. Nevius, F. Proschan, J. Sethuraman
SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS AND THE CORRESPONDING OPTIMAL VERSION OF THE MULTIPLE COMPARISON PROBLEM, Pages 297-311, Jerzy Neyman
ESTIMATING COVARIANCES IN A MULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION, Pages 313-326, I. Olkin, J.B. Selliah
SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS - A COMPOUND DECISION PROBLEM, Pages 327-350, C. Radhakrishna Rao
ROBUST BAYESIAN ESTIMATION, Pages 351-356, Herman Rubin
THE DIRICHLET-TYPE 1 INTEGRAL AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO MULTINOMIAL-RELATED PROBLEMS, Pages 357-374, Milton Sobel
OPTIMAL SEARCH DESIGNS, OR DESIGNS OPTIMAL UNDER BIAS FREE OPTIMALITY CRITERIA, Pages 375-409, J.N. Srivastava
OPTIMAL DESIGNS FOR INTEGRATED VARIANCE IN POLYNOMIAL REGRESSION, Pages 411-420, W.J. Studden
ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS OF LINEAR COMBINATIONS OF ORDER STATISTICS, Pages 421-437, W.R. van Zwet
ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES OF BAYES TESTS OF NONPARAMETRIC HYPOTHESES, Pages 439-450, Lionel Weiss
OBSTRUCTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS IN A SEQUENTIAL RANK-ORDER TEST BASED ON LEHMANN ALTERNATIVES, Pages 451-469, R.A. Wijsman
OPTIMUM DESIGNS FOR FINITE POPULATIONS SAMPLING, Pages 471-478, H.P. Wynn