LEADER 03437nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910784900403321 005 20230828224826.0 010 $a981-4476-47-1 010 $a1-281-37305-2 010 $a9786611373054 010 $a981-277-246-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000401204 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24684362 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000130087 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000130087 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080522 035 $a(PQKB)11457181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681227 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10201437 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL137305 035 $a(OCoLC)879024944 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000401204 100 $a20070301d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContributions to probability and statistics$b[electronic resource] $eapplications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005 /$fPeter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma 210 $aSingapore ;$aHackensack, N.J. $cWorld Scientific$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (324p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a981-270-391-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aMathematics 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. 330 $aFeatures 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. 606 $aMathematical statistics$vCongresses 606 $aProbabilities$vCongresses 615 0$aMathematical statistics 615 0$aProbabilities 676 $a519.5 701 $aBrown$b Peter$0299694 701 $aLiu$b Shuangzhe$01097658 701 $aSharma$b Dharmendra$01516442 712 12$aInternational Statistics Workshop 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784900403321 996 $aContributions to probability and statistics$93752923 997 $aUNINA