Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability (eBook)

Preface.- S. Panchapakesan – Life and Works.- Contributors.- List or Tables.- List of Figures.- Part I: Inference.- Score Test: Historical Review and Recent Developments.- EM Algorithm and Optimal Censoring Schemes for Progressively Type-II Censored Bivariate Normal Data .- Inference Guided Data Exploration .- Discriminating Between Normal and Laplace Distributions.- A Simple Classification Rule for Directional Data.- Part II: Ranking and Selection.- On Some Ranking and Selection Procedures for MANOVA Models with Applications.- 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.- Selecting the Best Population with Two Controls: An Emipirical Bayes Approach.- Simultaneous Selection of Extreme Populations: Optimal Two-stage Decision Rules.- Part III: Multiple Comparisons and Tests.- Comparing Variances of Several Measurement Methods Using a Randomized Block Design with Repeat Measurements: A Case Study.- Impact of Missing Data and Imputation Methods on Multiple Test Procedures.- Asymptotic Second-order Efficiency for Two-stage Multiple Comparisons with Components of a Linear Function of Mean Vectors.- Part IV: Agreement Assessment.- Measuring Agreement in Method Comparison Studies – A Review.- Measures of Concordane for Assessing Agreement in Ratings and Rank Order Data.- Part V: Reliability.- Cost-effective Analysis of Optimal Order-replacement Policies.- Estimating Reliabilities Following Purely Sequential Sampling from Exponential Populations.- Empirical Bayes Estimation of Mean Lifetime for an Exponential Distribution: Unequal Sample Sizes Case.- Part VI: Biostatistics.- Bayesian Analysis of Mixtures of Improper Survival Distributions.- Multivariate Survival Analysis with PVF Frailty Models.- A Two-stage Design for Choosing Among Experimental Treatments in Clinical Trials.- Index