Directions in Robust Statistics and Diagnostics: Part II: 34 (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 34) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387975314 ISBN 13: 9780387975313

Publisher: Springer, 1991

Synopsis

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications DIRECTIONS IN ROBUST STATISTICS AND DIAGNOSTICS is based on the proceedings of the first four weeks of the six week IMA 1989 summer program "Robustness, Diagnostics, Computing and Graphics in Statistics". An important objective of the organizers was to draw a broad set of statisticians working in robustness or diagnostics into collaboration on the challenging problems in these areas, particularly on the interface between them. We thank the organizers of the robustness and diagnostics program Noel Cressie, Thomas P. Hettmansperger, Peter J. Huber, R. Douglas Martin, and especially Werner Stahel and Sanford Weisberg who edited the proceedings. A vner Friedman Willard Miller, Jr. PREFACE Central themes of all statistics are estimation, prediction, and making decisions under uncertainty. A standard approach to these goals is through parametric mod­ elling. Parametric models can give a problem sufficient structure to allow standard, well understood paradigms to be applied to make the required inferences. If, how­ ever, the parametric model is not completely correct, then the standard inferential methods may not give reasonable answers. In the last quarter century, particularly with the advent of readily available computing, more attention has been paid to the problem of inference when the parametric model used is not correctly specified.

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See preceding entry. The two volumes contain the proceedings of the first two-thirds of the 1989 summer program at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the U. of Minnesota. The 39 presentations discuss two methodologies used in statistics and the interface between them, describing both established and new approaches, and a number o

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387975314
• ISBN 13: 9780387975313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Stahel Werner, Weisberg Sanford