Read more
Informationen zum Autor Bimal Ghosh has a long and distinguished career as an academic, an international civil servant, and a writer. He has lived and worked in all the major regions of the world and is the author of more than a dozen books and numerous articles and newspaper columns on global and humanitarian issues. His first collection of poems, Through the Eyes of My Mind, was widely acclaimed and topped the Goodreads list of the ten best poetry books in 2005.Ghosh is an emeritus professor at Colombia's Graduate Institute of Public Administration and a senior fellow at the Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Previously, he served for many years as a senior director/senior consultant in the United Nations system and the Council of Europe and for a number of global commissions on international and development issues. He is the recipient of several prestigious national honours for his outstanding contributions to development and global cooperation. Klappentext The only comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of one of today's most important probabilistic techniques The past 15 years have witnessed many significant advances in sequential estimation, especially in the areas of three-stage and nonparametric methodology. Yet, until now, there were no references devoted exclusively to this rapidly growing statistical field. Sequential Estimation is the first, single-source guide to the theory and practice of both classical and modern sequential estimation techniques--including parametric and nonparametric methods. Researchers in sequential analysis will appreciate the unified, logically integrated treatment of the subject, as well as coverage of important contemporary procedures not covered in more general sequential analysis texts, such as: Shrinkage estimation Empirical and hierarchical Bayes procedures Multistage sampling and accelerated sampling procedures Time-sequential estimation Sequential estimation in finite population sampling Reliability estimation and capture-recapture methodologies leading to sequential tagging schemes An indispensable resource for researchers in sequential analysis, Sequential Estimation is an ideal graduate-level text as well. Zusammenfassung This book devoted to sequential estimation presents the advances of the past fifteen years including those in the areas of three-stage accelerated sequential sampling procedures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and Coverage. Probabilistic Results in Sequential Analysis. Some Basic Concepts for Fixed-Sample Estimation. General Aspects of Sequential Estimation. Sequential Bayesian Estimation. Multistage Estimation. Parametric Sequential Point Estimation. Parametric Sequential Confidence Estimation. Nonparametric Sequential Point Estimation. Nonparametric Sequential Confidence Estimation. Estimation Following Sequential Tests. Time-Sequential Estimation Problems. Sequential Estimation in Reliability Models. Sequential Estimation of the Size of a Finite Population. Stochastic Approximation. References. Indexes....
