
By Anthony C. Davison, Yadolah Dodge, Nanny Wermuth
Originating from a gathering celebrating the eightieth birthday of Sir David Cox, the eminent Oxford student whose many vital and penetrating contributions to fashionable facts have had a rare impression, this choice of papers via significant statistical researchers offers an summary of present advancements throughout a variety of learn parts. Contributing authors and subject matters contain: O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus): information and Physics; A.C. Davison (Lausanne): Statistical equipment; S. Darby (Oxford): Epidemiology; D. Firth (Warwick): Social records; P. Jall (Canberra): Nonparametrics; V.S.Isham (University university, London): Stochastic Modelling; P. McCullagh (Chicago): Statistical types; N. Reid (Toronto): Asymptotics; B.D. Ripley (Oxford): Statistical computing; I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton): Statistical hydrology; A. Rotnitsky (Harvard): Semiparametrics; N. Shepard (Oxford): Statistical econometrics; N> Wermuth (Mainz): Graphical versions; S.L. Zeger (Johns Hopkins): Biostatistics. appropriate for college students of facts in any respect degrees from complicated undergraduate to submit graduate, for training statisticians, and information analysts, and for statistics and cognate fields, this e-book is a becoming tribute to Sir David Cox and his large impression on sleek facts.