Contributions to the Theory and Application of Statistics

Preface

A Biographical Sketch of Herbert Solomon

Publications of Herbert Solomon

The Invited Contributors

List of Contributors

I. Operations Research and Applied Probability

Inequalities for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate

A Markov Decision Approach to Nuclear Materials Safeguards

On the Persistent Release of Particles in a Fluid Flow

Statistical Inference for Random Parameter Markov Population Process Models

II. Distribution Theory and Geometric Probability

Probabilistic-Geometric Theorems Arising from the Analysis of Contingency Tables

Some Remarks on Exchangeable Normal Variables with Applications

Asymptotics for the Ratio of Multiple t-Densities

Periodogram Testing Based on Spacings

Tests for Uniformity Arising from a Series of Events

Spatial Classification Error Rates Related to Pixel Size

III. Applications

The Use of Peremptory Challenges in Jury Selection

An Information-Processing Model Based on Reaction Times in Solving Linear Equations

Diagnostic Errors and Their Impact on Disease Trends

Hypothesis Testing in the Courtroom

Multivariate Discrimination of Depressive Groups Across Cultures

IV. Inference Methodology

Estimation in Parametric Mixture Families

Multiple Shrinkage Generalizations of the James-Stein Estimator

The Analysis of a Set of Multidimensional Contingency Tables Using Log-Linear Models, Latent-Class Models, and Correlation Models: The Solomon Data Revisited

Selection Procedure for Multinomial Populations with Respect to Diversity Indices

Confidence Intervals for the Common Variance of Equicorrelated Normal Random Variables