Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work: Volume 5 — Inferential Problems and Properties Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, July 10–August 1,1980

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
A Review of Distributional Testing Procedures and Development of a Censored Sample Distributional Test....Pages 1-24
A Goodness-of-Fit Procedure for Testing Whether a Reliability Growth Model Fits Data That Show Improvement....Pages 25-33
Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on Dependent Observations....Pages 35-49
An Asymptotically Distribution-Free Goodness-of-Fit Test for Families of Statistical Distributions Depending on Two Parameters....Pages 51-56
Conditionality Properties for the Bivariate Logarithmic Distribution with an Application to Goodness of Fit....Pages 57-73
A Survey of Estimating Distributional Parameters and Sample Sizes from Truncated Samples....Pages 75-86
Parameter Estimation for Truncated Exponential Families....Pages 87-94
Properties of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of a Mixing Distribution....Pages 95-109
Conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Mixtures....Pages 111-125
Estimation of Pareto Parameters by Numerical Methods....Pages 127-132
A New Estimation Procedure for the Three-Parameter Lognormal Distribution....Pages 133-140
On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Multivariate Cramer-Von Mises and Hoeffding-Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt Independence Criteria....Pages 141-156
Complete Independence in the Multivariate Normal Distribution....Pages 157-168
On Tests of Independence under Bivariate Exponential Models....Pages 169-180
On Tests for Detecting Change in the Multivariate Mean....Pages 181-191
A Two-Dimensional T-Distribution and a New Test with Flexible Type I Error Control....Pages 193-202
Testing Outliers in Multivariate Data....Pages 203-218
A Normal Approximation for the Multivariate Likelihood Ratio Statistics....Pages 219-230
A Method for the Evaluation of Cumulative Probabilities of Bivariate Distributions using the Pearson Family....Pages 231-240
Transformation of a Discrete Distribution to Near Normality....Pages 241-257
Multivariate Distributions in Reliability Theory and Life Testing....Pages 259-270
Hazard Rates Based on Isoprobability Contours....Pages 271-288
Failure Time Distributions: Estimates and Asymptotic Results....Pages 289-308
A Note on Shock Model Justification for IFR Distributions....Pages 309-317
On the Mean Residual Life Function in Survival Studies....Pages 319-325
Identifiability Problems in the Theory of Competing and Complementary Risks — A Survey....Pages 327-334
Dependence Concepts for Stochastic Processes....Pages 335-347
Some Distribution Theory Related to the Analysis of Subjective Performance in Inferential Tasks....Pages 349-361
Every Body has its Moments....Pages 363-385
Some Distributions in the Theory of Graphs....Pages 387-396
Cograduation Between Statistical Distributions and its Applications — A General Review....Pages 397-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-428
....Pages 429-439