Böcker i Proceedings of the 1st World Congress of the Bernoulli Society-serien

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Greeting -- Opening Talk -- Algorithms And Randomness -- Self Similar Processes In Probability Theory And Statistics (Session 9 - Chairman: Ya.G. Sinay) -- INVITED PAPERS -- Limit theorems in statistical physics; on Dyson's hierarchical model -- Statistical aspects of self-similar processes -- Toeplitz matrices and estimation of time series with long-range dependence -- Contributed Papers -- Universal behavior and stochasticity for one dimensional systems -- A birth and death process in random environment -- Spectral properties of some finite-difference and differential operators with random coefficients -- Point Processes In Probability Theory And Statistics (Session 10 - Chairman: D. Stoyan) -- Invited Papers -- Parametric and non-parametric estimation for pairwise-interaction point processes -- On the theory of conditioning in point processes -- Contributed Papers -- On The Exponentiality Of Total Hazards Before Failure -- Sufficient regularity conditions for jump processes -- Statistics with diffusion crossing times -- Ruin probabilities in the "non-renewal" case -- A note on the asymptotic behaviour of the empirical score in Cox's regression model for counting processes -- Comparison of Cox's and maximum likelihood estimates for matched experiments in survival data with censoring -- On the conditions providing for the moments of number of zeros of a vector Gaussian field to be finite -- The inverses of thinned point processes -- Foundations Of Probability Theory (Session 17 - Chairman: D. Lane) -- Invited Papers -- An epistemic justification of the law of total probability -- Contributed Papers -- Individual Random Continuous Functions -- Some Estimates For Nonstochastic Sequences -- Nonstandard Analysis In Probability Theory (Session 19 - Chairman: E. Perkins) -- Invited Papers -- Nonstandard Constructions Of Diffusions And Related Processes -- Nonstandard analysis in probability theory -- Contributed Papers -- Adapted distribution -- Hyperfinite methods for multidimensional stochastic processes -- Combinatorial Methods In Probability Theory (Session 20 - Chairman: B.S. Stechkin) -- Invited Papers -- Random mappings and branching processes -- On probability methods in combinatorial analysis -- Contributed Papers -- Neighbourhood Spaces And Maps -- Percolation theory. Coincidence of the critical values PH = PT -- Evolution on random mappings -- On the distribution of the number of vertices in strata of a random forest -- Queing Theory (Network, Computer-User Models, Stability ...) (Session 22 - Chairman: R. Schassberger) -- Invited Papers -- Stationary queueing systems. Existence and stability -- Ergodicity and asymptotic behaviour of multi-type branching processes arising in random-access communication systems -- Insensitive service schemes and partial balance -- Contributed Papers -- Queueing networks and operator-selfdecomposability -- Insensitivity in queueing networks with generalized processor-sharing discipline -- Markov Processes (Session 24 - Chairman: Y. Le Jan) -- Invited Papers -- Intrinsic properties of Markov processes -- Reversible diffusion processes on manifolds -- The entropy production and reversibility of Markov processes -- Contributed Papers -- The theory of shuffling - an application of non-homogeneous Markov chains -- Asymptotic periodicity of the iterates of Markov operators -- Homogeneous transition functions and dual semigroups -- On the arcsine law in the adaptive control of Markov chains -- Random Fields And Percolation Theory (Session 25 - Chairman: Y. Higuchi) -- Invited Papers -- Random sets and Markov fields -- Central limit results for random fields -- Recent progress in percolation -- Contributed Papers -- Uniqueness of Gibbs measures and absorption probabilities -- A decomposition theorem for binary Markov random fields -- Percolation problem for the two-dimensional Ising model -- Probabilistic models of the growth of epithelial tumors -- On the hom

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT INFERENCE (semi-parametric models...)(Session 1) -- INVITED PAPERS -- EFFICIENT TESTING IN A CLASS OF TRANSFORMATION MODELS: AN OUTLINE -- ABSTRACT INFERENCE IN IMAGE PROCESSING -- BAYES IAN INFERENCE IN SEMIPARAMETRIC PROBLEMS -- SEMI-PARAMETRIC BAYES ESTIMATORS -- ON ESTIMATING IN MODELS WITH INFINITELY MANY PARAMETERS -- INFERENCE FOR STOCHASTIC PROCESSES (Session 2) -- INVITED PAPERS -- SEMMARTINGALE CONVERGENCE THEORY AND CONDITIONAL INFERENCE FOR STOCHASTIC PROCESSES -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF FINITE SAMPLE ESTIMATION IN STOCHASTIC PROCESSES - II -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- SOME USES OF MAXIMUM-ENTROPY METHODS FOR ILL-POSED PROBLEMS IN SIGNAL AND CRISTALLOGRAPHY THEORIES -- On Asymptotic Efficiency of the Cox Estimator -- ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIBS OP THE MAXIMUM LIKBLIHOOD ESTIMATOR, ITO-VENTZSL'S FORMULA FOR SEMIMARTINGALES AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE RECURSIVE ESTIMATION IN A GENERAL SCHEME OP STATISTICAL MODELS -- MAXIMUM ENTROPY SELECTION OF SOLUTIONS TO ILL-POSED MARTINGALE PROBLEMS -- ASYMPTOTIC INFERENCE FOR THE GALTON-WATSON PROCESS WITHOUT RESTRICTION TO THE SUPER-CRITICAL CASE -- CROSS-VALIDATION (Session 3) -- INVITED PAPERS -- ON RESAMPLING METHODS FOR CONFIDENCE LIMITS -- THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CROSS-VALIDATION AND SMOOTHING METHODS -- BOOTSTRAP OF THE MEAN IN THE INFINITE VARIANCE CASE -- AUTOMATIC CURVE SMOOTHING -- NON-PARAMETRIC SMOOTHING OF THE BOOTSTRAP -- DATA ANALYSIS (projection pursuit, curve estimation . . .) (Session 4) -- INVITED PAPERS -- ON CONSTRUCTING A GENERAL THEORY OP AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION -- DATA ANALYSIS : GEOMETRIC AND ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- GENERALIZED CANONICAL ANALYSIS -- DETECTING OUTLIERS AND CLUSTERS IN MULTIVARIATE DATA BASED ON PROJECTION PURSUIT -- THE INVERSE PROBLEM OP THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS -- DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (nearest neighbour designs . . .) (Session 5) -- INVITED PAPERS -- NUMERICAL METHODS OF OPTIMAL DESIGN CONSTRUCTION -- ORDERING EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS -- OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR AUTOCORRELATED PROCESSES -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR MODEL SELECTION -- THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF FIELD TRIALS IN THE PRESENCE OF FERTILITY EFFECTS -- ON THE EXISTENCE OF MULTIFACTOR DESIGNS WITH GIVEN MARGINAIS -- LOCAL ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY IN GAUSSIAN MODEL OF VARIANCE COMPONENTS -- ASYMPTOTIC METHODS IN STATISTICS (second order asymptotics, saddle points methods e etc.)(Session 6) -- INVITED PAPERS -- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRICAL METHOD IN ASYMPTOTICS OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE -- LIKELIHOOD, ANCILLARITY AND STRINGS -- ON ASYMPTOTICALLY COMPLETE CLASSES OF TESTS -- TAIL PROBABILITY APPROXIMATIONS -- ON SECOND ORDER ADMISSIBILITY IN SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION -- Bounds for the asymptotic efficiency of estimators based on functional contractions; applications to the problem of estimation in the presence of random nuisance parameters -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- ON CHI-SQUARED GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS FOR LOCATION-SCALE MODELS -- SOME PROBLEMS IN STATISTICS -- ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES FOR DETECTION OF CHANGE -- ON LOCAL AND NON-LOCAL MEASURES OF EFFICIENCY -- MAXIMAL DEVIATIONS OP GAUSSIAN PROCESSES AND EMPIRICAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS -- CHI-SQUARED TEST STATISTICS BASED ON SUBSAMPLES -- ON HODGES-LEHMANN INDICES OP NONPARAMETRIC TESTS -- DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE -- LARGE SAMPLE PROPERTIES FOR GENERALIZATIONS OF THE TRIMMED MEAN -- MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (large number of parameters . . .) (Session 7) -- INVITED PAPERS -- DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR SPECIAL PARAMETER STRUCTURES -- ASYMPTOTICS OF INCREASING DIMENSIONALITY IN CLASSIFICATION -- EXTENSIONS AND ASYMPTOTIC STUDIES OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES -- ESTIMATION OF SYMMETRIC FUNCTIONS OF PARAMETERS AND ESTIMATION OF (»VARIANCE MATRIX -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- INTRODUCTION IN GENERAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- ESTIMATION AND TESTING OP HYPOTHESES IN MULTIVARIATE GENERAL GAUSS-MARKOFF MODEL -- SYMMETRY GROUPS AND INVARIANT STATISTICAL TESTS FOR FAMIL