Statistics - Kotz Book

	Preface
	List of Contributors
	Samuel Kotz - Life and Works	3
	About Sam Kotz	21
	Sam Kotz - Teacher and Mentor	23
1	Statistics and Politics	29
2	Dispersion and Cohesion in the Statistical Profession	39
3	On Ling's Scaling Law	57
4	The Roughness of Visitations in a Markov Chain, A Review with Extensions	67
5	A Generalization of the Lifetime Pairs of Renewal Theory	89
6	Markov Chains and Nerve Impulses: An Interface Between Statistics and Neurophysiology	107
7	Some Control Methods for Epidemics	125
8	Statistics and Probability in Public Health: Educated Guessing in the Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death	143
9	Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Two-Parameter and Three-Parameter Weibull Distributions	159
10	Some Exact and Nonasymptotic Analyses of Discrete Goodness-of-Fit and r-Way Contingency Tables	179
11	Some Rank Tests for Multivariate Censored Data	193
12	On the Performance of Minimum-Distance Classification Rules for Kotz-Type Elliptical Distributions	209
13	Exact Properties of Residuals in Subset Diagnostics	225
14	Finding Masking Effects from Interaction of Cases	241
15	On Confidence Bands for the Lorenz and Goldie Curves	261
16	Approximations and Inequalities for the Distribution of a Scan Statistics for 0-1 Bernoulli Trials	285
17	On Hyperbolically Monotone Densities	299
18	A Generalization of the Power Inverse Gaussian Distribution and Some of Its Properties	315
19	Aspects of the Skellam-Haldane Distribution	325
20	Distributions of First Exit Times for Poisson Processes with Lower and Upper Linear Boundaries	339
21	The Share-of-Total Approach to Multivariate Distributions	353
22	A Recurrence Relation for Discrete Multivariate Distributions and Some Applications to Multivariate Waiting Time Problems	367
23	Multivariate Liouville Distributions, V	377
24	On Bivariate "Short" and Related Distributions	397
25	An Extension of the Complex Normal Distribution	415
26	Extensions of a Characterization of an Exponential Distribution Based on a Censored Ordered Sample	431
27	Gumbel Records and Related Characterizations	441
28	Characterizations of Matrix Variate Elliptically Contoured Distributions	455
29	Characterizations of Distributions by Extremes and Records in Archimedean Copula Processes	469
30	Characterizations Using Ranks and Order Statistics	479
31	On Preservation of Symmetry of Distribution Under Multiplication of Random Variables	493
32	The Laws of Some Random Series of Independent Summands	499
33	The Distribution of a Copula When the Sum and the Difference of the Univariate Random Variables are Independent	517
34	A Review of Orthant Probability Bounds	535
35	Some Remarks on Almost Sure Local and Global Central Limit Theorems	551
36	Improper Priors, Posterior Asymptotic Normality, and Conditional Inference	563
37	Inversion of Bayes Formula: Explicit Formulae for Unconditional pdf	571
38	The Peters-Belson Approach to Measures of Economic and Legal Discrimination	587
	Abbreviations	603
	Author Index	607
	Subject Index	619