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As one of the great statisticians of the century, Sir Maurice Kendall worked in areas covering an extraordinary range from intricate theory to detailed application. This memorial selection concentrates on a number of his less well known papers. They fall into four general groups. First are four papers concerned with applications, including his Presidential Address to the Royal Statistical Society. The next group consists of six papers on the theory of symmetric functions of sample observations. The third group includes a selection of Kendall's papers in the theory of ranking methods, including his 1938 discovery of the rank correlation coefficient since named after him. The last group of papers contains three of his early papers on the theory of time-series. General statistical readers as well as specialists will appreciate the book's sampling of Kendall's remarkable range of contributions.
This updated fifth edition signifies the most extensive rewriting of Sir Maurice Kendall's original work since its first appearance in three volumes in 1958. Known throughout the field as the definitive source book of statistical theory, this edition contains thoroughly revised text and modernized terminology. Chapters five and six, the central chapters on distribution, have been greatly expanded and feature new tables and diagrams to emphasize the relations between different systems. Chapters seven and eight give an updated presentation of probability theory, and chapter nine includes an extensive new treatment of the use of computers in statistics. Other theoretical treatments throughout the book include coverage of important topics in current research such as smoothing, kernel estimators, density estimators, the exponential family, saddlepoint approximations, and fractional and negative movements. In its scope and authority, the fifth edition of Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics constitutes a major achievement of mathematical scholarship and continues to be a vital and timely resource for students and statisticians.
The development of statistical theory in the past fifty years is faithfully reflected in the history of the late Sir Maurice Kendall’s volumes The Advanced Theory of Statistics. The Advanced Theory began life as a two volume work (Volume 1, 1943; Volume 2, 1946) and grew steadily, as a single authored work until the late fifties. At that point Alan Stuart became involved and the Advanced Theory was rewritten in three volumes. When Keith Ord joined in the early eighties, Volume 3 became the largest and plans were developed to expand it into a series of monographs called the Kendall's Library of Statistics which would devote a book to each of the modern developments in statistics. This serie...
This updated fifth edition signifies the most extensive rewriting of Sir Maurice Kendall's original work since its first appearance in three volumes in 1958. Known throughout the field as the definitive source book of statistical theory, this edition contains thoroughly revised text and modernized terminology. Chapters five and six, the central chapters on distribution, have been greatly expanded and feature new tables and diagrams to emphasize the relations between different systems. Chapters seven and eight give an updated presentation of probability theory, and chapter nine includes an extensive new treatment of the use of computers in statistics. Other theoretical treatments throughout the book include coverage of important topics in current research such as smoothing, kernel estimators, density estimators, the exponential family, saddlepoint approximations, and fractional and negative movements. In its scope and authority, the fifth edition of Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics constitutes a major achievement of mathematical scholarship and continues to be a vital and timely resource for students and statisticians.
This major revision contains a largely new chapter 7 providing an extensive discussion of the bivariate and multivariate versions of the standard distributions and families. Chapter 16 has been enlarged to cover multivariate sampling theory, an updated version of material previously found inthe old Volume III. The previous chapters 7 and 8 have been condensed into a single chapter providing an introduction to statistical inference. Elsewhere, major updates include new material on skewness and kurtosis, hazard rate distributions, the bootstrap, the evaluation of the multivariate normalintegral and ratios of quadratic forms. The new edition includes over 200 new references, 40 new exercises and 20 further examples in the main text. In addition, all the text examples have been given titles, and these are listed at the front of the book for easier reference.
Twelve British Statisticians provides a description of the lives and contributions of a dozen scientific luminaries. Their fields of expertise sometimes include disciplines that depart from statistics and display great versatility. Each statistician is a famous figure, but is especially renowned in Great Britain. The book is accessible to a wide reading audience. Each chapter focuses on the scientific contributions and personal life of a single statistician. Each chapter begins with an overview and contains a rich set of references. Current textbooks in statistics contain little information about the pioneers in the field. This book provides a historical supplement in courses on quantitative...