03434nam 2200625Ia 450 991080907840332120240404151513.0981-4476-47-11-281-37305-29786611373054981-277-246-4(CKB)1000000000401204(StDuBDS)AH24684362(SSID)ssj0000130087(PQKBManifestationID)11135509(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130087(PQKBWorkID)10080522(PQKB)11457181(MiAaPQ)EBC1681227(Au-PeEL)EBL1681227(CaPaEBR)ebr10201437(CaONFJC)MIL137305(OCoLC)879024944(EXLCZ)99100000000040120420070301d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrContributions to probability and statistics applications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005 /Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma1st ed.Singapore ;Hackensack, N.J. World Scientificc20061 online resource (324p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph981-270-391-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Mathematics and Statistics in Society: Two Classification Methods of Individuals for Educational Data and an Application (A Hayashi); Measurement of Skill and Skill Change (R Kelly & P E T Lewis); Applications of Statistics: Estimating the Numbers of SARS Cases in Mainland China in 2002-3 (J Gani); A Fair Tennis Scoring System for Doubles in the Presence of Sun and Wind Effects -- An Application of Probability (G Pollard); Theoretical Issues in Probability and Statistics: Perturbed Markov Chains (J J Hunter); Matrix Tricks for Linear Statistical Models: A Short Review of Our Personal Top Fourteen (J Isotalo et al.); On the Approximate Variance of a Nonlinear Function of Random Variables (H Neudecker & G Trenkler); Probabilistic Models in Economics and Finance: When Large Claims are Extremes (R Gay); Shrinkage Estimation of Gini Index (R Ghori et al.); Numerical Methods: An Approximate Maximum a Posteriori Method with Gaussian Process Priors (M Hegland); Mining Multiple Models (G J Williams); Abstracts Without Papers: Properties of Nearest-Neighbour Classifiers (P Hall); Bootstrapping in Clustered Populations (A H Welsh); and other papers.Features a range of topics in modern statistical theory and methodology, economics and finance, ecology, education, health and sports studies, and computer and IT-data mining. Some of the contributions contain illustrations of the applied methods or photos of historic mathematicians.Mathematical statisticsCongressesProbabilitiesCongressesMathematical statisticsProbabilities519.5Brown Peter377542Liu Shuangzhe1097658Sharma Dharmendra1670659International Statistics WorkshopMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809078403321Contributions to probability and statistics4032664UNINA