Modelling and Prediction : honoring Seymour Geisser.

Berlin & New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. Hardcover. xvi. 448 pp. Index. - Contents : After Dinner Remarks: On the Occasion of Seymour Geisser's 65th Birthday, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 13, 1994 / Marvin Zelen -- Story about Cosimo di Medici / David Lane -- Some Statistical Issues in Forensic DNA Profiling / Seymour Geisser -- Statistical Practice as Argumentation: A Sketch of a Theory of Applied Statistics / James S. Hodges -- Decision Rules and Market Share: Aggregation in an Information Contagion Model / David Lane and Roberta Vescovini -- Bayesian Method of Moments (BMOM) Analysis of Mean and Regression Models / Arnold Zellner -- On the Prediction of Growth Curves / Jack C. Lee and Seymour Geisser -- Predictive Influence in the Log Normal Survival Model / Wesley O. Johnson -- Selecting the Form of Combining Regressions Based on Recursive Prediction Criteria / Kuo-yuan Liang and Keunkwan Ryu -- Multiperiod-Ahead Predictive Densities and Model Comparison in Dynamic Models / Chung-ki Min -- Bayesian Prediction Under Asymmetric Linear Loss: Forecasting State Tax Revenues in Iowa / Charles H. Whiteman -- On Small Sample Bayesian Inference and Sequential Design for Quantal Response Curves / Tom Leonard and John S. J. Hsu -- Some Simulation Results for the Performance of DNA Classification of Noisy Image Data / S. James Press -- Case-Control Studies and Bayesian Inference / M. Zelen and R. A. Parker -- Orthogonalizations and Prior Distributions for Orthogonalized Model Mixing / Merlise Clyde and Giovanni Parmigiani -- Improved Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Stochastic Volatility Models / F. Jay Breidt and Alicia L. Carriquiry -- Bayesian Inference for Linear Models Subject to Inequality Constraints / John F. Geweke -- The Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum Likelihood and Mantel-Haenszel Estimators of the Common Odds Ratio in k 2x2 Tables / Samuel W. Greenhouse and Joseph L. Gastwirth -- On the Justification of Default and Intrinsic Bayes Factors / James O. Berger and Luis R. Pericchi -- Tests on Independence of VNTR Alleles in the Chinese Population in Hong Kong / Wing K. Fung -- Bayes Factors for Testing the Equality of Covariance Matrix Eigenvalues / Robert E. McCulloch and Peter E. Rossi -- Model Selection in Parapsychology: Psychokinesis, Precognition or Chance / Jessica Utts -- An Empirical Bayesian Approach to Cointegrating Rank Selection and Test of the Present Value Model for Stock Prices / John C. Chao and Peter C. B. Phillips -- Prediction of Individual Bond Prices via the TDM Model / Takeaki Kariya and Hiroshi Tsuda -- On the Use of Canonical Correlation Analysis in Testing Common Trends / N. H. Chan and Ruey S. Tsay -- Conjugate Processes / Clive W. J. Granger and Jin-Lung Lin -- Nonlinear Time Series-Bifurcation, Chaos and Stationarity / Wolfgang Kliemann -- The VAR-VARCH Model: A Bayesian Approach / Wolfgang Polasek and Hideo Kozumi -- Statistical Assessment of Atmospheric Ozone Data for Depletion / Gregory C. Reinsel and G. C. Tiao. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780387948089. Keywords : MATHEMATICS, statistics.…