Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability

Methodology and Applications

By: N. Balakrishnan (Editor), Nandini Kannan (Editor), H. N. Nagaraja (Editor)

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S. Panchapakesan has made significant contributions to ranking and selection and has published in many other areas of statistics, including order statistics, reliability theory, stochastic inequalities, and inference. Written in his honor, the twenty invited articles in this volume reflect recent advances in these areas and form a tribute to Panchapakesan's influence and impact on these areas.

Thematically organized, the chapters cover a broad range of topics from:

- Inference

- Ranking and Selection

- Multiple Comparisons and Tests

- Agreement Assessment

- Reliability

- Biostatistics

Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities.

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"Thematically organised, the chapters cover a broad range of topics from: inference, ranking and selection, multiple comparisons and tests, agreement assessment, reliability, biostatistics. Featuring theory, methods, applications, and extensive bibliographies with special emphasis on recent literature, this comprehensive reference work will serve researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in the statistical and applied mathematics communities." -Bulletin Bibliographique

"This book is written in the honor of S. Panchapakesan, whose significant contributions belong to the area of ranking and selection. ... The book addresses to a graduate reader ... . all of the methods are illustrated by many examples from medicine and engineering. Generally the data sets are taken from real-life." (Liliana Popa, Iasi Polytechnic Magazine, Vol. 18 (1/4), 2006)

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S. Panchapakesean - life and works
Score test : historical review and recent developments	p. 3
EM algorithm and optimal censoring schemes for progressively type-II censored bivariate normal data	p. 21
Inference guided data exploration	p. 47
Discriminating between normal and Laplace distributions	p. 65
A simple classification rule for directional data	p. 81
On some ranking and selection procedures for MANOVA models with applications	p. 93
A restricted subset selection rule for selecting at least one of the t best normal populations in terms of their means : common known variance case	p. 117
Selecting the best population with two controls : an empirical Bayes approach	p. 133
Simultaneous selection of extreme populations : optimal two-stage decision rules	p. 143
Comparing variances of several measurement methods using a randomized block design with repeat measurements : a case study	p. 165
Impact of missing data and imputation methods on multiple test procedures	p. 179
Asymptotic second-order efficiency for two-stage multiple comparisons with components of a linear function of mean vectors	p. 191
Measuring agreement in method comparison studies - a review	p. 215
Measures of concordance for assessing agreement in ratings and rank order data	p. 245
Cost-effective analysis of optimal order-replacement policies	p. 267
Estimating reliabilities following purely sequential sampling from exponential populations	p. 303
Empirical Bayes estimation of mean lifetime for an exponential distribution : unequal sample sizes case	p. 333
Bayesian analysis of mixtures of improper survival distributions	p. 353
Multivariate survival analysis with PVF frailty models	p. 369
A two-stage design for choosing among experimental treatments in clinical trials	p. 385
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