Probability and Statistics
Probability and Statistics
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DOI:
10.1080/00401706.1990.10484663
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发表时间:
1990-05
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
E. Ziegel
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作者:
E. Ziegel
This book is subtitled Essays in Honor of Franklin Graybill and is edited by Jaya Srivastava, a colleague of Dr. Graybill at Colorado State. Since the honoree was first known to me as the author of a very widely renowned book on mathematical statistics, I was anticipating that the book would contain mostly theoretical papers. There are no sections, so I had to make my own tally of the 22 papers; 15 of them are purely theoretical. The writers include a number of famous names in statistics, such as Boes, Bradley, and Searle. The other 7 papers include a history (Karl Pearson), a review (sampling in auditing), and 5 papers that could be considered as “applications” under a loose definition. Three of the nontheoretical papers are computational. There is a paper on power comparisons in row-column tables, another titled “An Argument for Adaptive Robust Estimation,” and a third on tolerance limits in one-way random-effects models. Two papers that do give some attention to applications are “Applications of Innovation Representation in Time Series Analysis” and “Prediction Intervals in Balanced One-Factor Random Models.” The first has some numerical examples, including one with data. The second has both simulations and a simple illustrative one-way experiment.Perhaps this book-review position colors my perspective, but having colleagues publish essays in my honor would be for me the ultimate peer acknowledgment. One hopes the book will be paperback! This North-Holland product, with their usual superlative binding and printing and its handicap of the unfavorable current florin-dollar exchange rate, carries a price too hefty for any individual. One hopes that Dr. Graybill’s admirers will encourage their libraries to have a copy for their perusal.