Advances in the Theory and Practice of Statistics: A Volume in Honor of Samuel Kotz

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Partial table of contents: SAMUEL KOTZ. About Sam Kotz (B. Shube). STATISTICS IN THE WORLD. Statistics and Politics (D. Bartholomew). Disperson and Cohesion in the Statistical Profession (Z. Kenessey). MODELS. On Ling's Scaling Law (S. Davies & P. Hall). A Generalization of the Lifetime Pairs of Renewal Theory (F. Steutel & K. van Harn). BIOSTATISTICS. Some Control Methods for Epidemics (D. Daley & J. Gani). TESTING AND ESTIMATION. Some Rank Tests for Multivariate Censored Data (V. Bagdonavicius & M. Nikulin). Exact Properties of Residuals in Subset Diagnostics (D. Jensen). UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS. On Hyperbolically Monotone Densities (L. Bondesson). MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS. The Share--of--Total Approach to Multivariate Distributions (J. Ord). CHARACTERIZATIONS. Gumbel Records and Related Characterizations (B. Arnold & J. Villasenor). PROBABILITY. The Laws of Some Random Series of Independent Summands (A. Pakes). BAYES THEORY. Improper Priors, Posterior Asymptotic Normality, and Conditional Inference (D. Fraser, et al.). Abbreviations. Indexes.