"Statistical Theory and Applications: Papers in Honor of Herbert A. David" Ed. by H. N. Nagaraja, et al.

This volume spans several areas of statistics, notably order statistics, inference, analysis of variance, and biometry.

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Part I: General Distribution Theory and Inference
1 PIC: Power Divergenceln formation Criterion
2 Multivariate Student's t and Its Applications
3 Two Sets of Multivariate Bonferroni-type Inequalities
4 On the Proportion above Sample Mean for Symmetric Stable Laws
5 The Relative Efficiency of Several Statistics Measuring Skewness
6 On a Class of Symmetric Nonnormal Distributions with a Kurtosis of Three
Part II: Order Statistics - Distribution Theory
7 Moments of the Selection Differential from Exponential and Uniform Parents
8 The Tallest Man in the World
9 Characterizing Distributions by Properties of Order Statistics - A Partial Review
10 Stochastic Ordering of the Number of Records
11 Moments of Cauchy Order Statistics via Riemann Zeta Functions
12 Order Statistics of Bivariate Exponential Random Variables
Part III: Order Statistics in Inference and Applications
13 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Laplace Parameters Based on Type-II Censored Samples
14 The Impact of Order Statistics on Signal Processing
15 A Nonlinear Ordered Rank Test to Detect Stochastic Ordering Between Two Distributions
16 Estimation of Location and Scale Parameters of a Logistic Distribution Using a Ranked Set Sample
17 Probability Models for an Employment Problem
Part IV: Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design
18 On the Robustness of Bayes Estimators of the Variance Ratio in Balanced One-Way ANOVA Models with Covariates
19 Interchange Algorithms for Constructing Designs with Complex Blocking Structures
20 Paired Comparisons for Multiple Characteristics: An ANOCOVA Approach
Part V: Biometry and Applications
21 On Assessing Multiple Equivalences with Reference to Bioequivalence
22 Competing Risks
23 Statistical Aspects of the Detection of Activation Effects in Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism by Positron Emission Tomography
24 On Optimality of Q-Charts for Outliers in Statistical ProcessControl
Part VI: Postscript
25 HERBERT ARON DAVID
Publications
26 Conference Abstracts, Anecdotes, and Appreciation