Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics IV -

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1 - Selection, Ranking, and Multiple Comparisons.- Sequential Selection Procedures for Multi-Factor Experiments Involving Koopman-Darmois Populations with Additivity.- Selection Problem for a Modified Multinomial (Voting) Model.- A Decision Theory Formulation for Population Selection Followed by Estimating the Mean of the Selected Population.- On the Problem of Finding the Largest Normal Mean under Heteroscedasticity.- On Least Favorable Configurations for Some Poisson Selection Rules and Some Conditional Tests.- Selection of the Best Normal Populations better Than a Control: Dependence Case.- Inference about the Change-Point in a Sequence of Random Variables: A Selection Approach.- On Confidence Sets in Multiple Comparisons.- 2 - Asymptoticand Sequential Analysis.- The VPRT: Optimal Sequential and Nonsequential Testing.- An Edgeworth Expansion for the Distribution of the F-Ratio under a Randomization Model for the Randomized Block Design.- On Bayes Sequential Tests.- Stochastic Search in a Square and on a Torus.- Distinguished Statistics, Loss of Information and a Theorem of Robert B. Davies.- Prophet Inequalities for Threshold Rules for Independent Bounded Random Variables.- Weak Convergence of the Aalen Estimator for a Censored Renewal Process.- Sequential Stein-Rule Maximum Likelihood Estimation: General Asymptotics.- Fixed Proportional Accuracy in Three Stages.- 3 - Estimationand Testing.- Dominating Inadmissible Tests in Exponential Family Models.- On Estimating Change Point in a Failure Rate.- A Nonparametric, Intersection-Union Test for Stochastic Order.- On Estimating the Number of Unseen Species and System Reliability.- The Effects of Variance Function Estimation on Prediction and Calibration: An Example.- On Estimating a Parameter and Its Score Function, II.-A Simple Test for the Equality of Correlation Matrices.- Conditions of Rao's Covariance Method Type for Set-Valued Estimators.- Conservation of Properties of Optimality of Some Statistical Tests and Point Estimators under Extensions of Distributions.- Some Recent Results in Signal Detection.- 4 - Design, and Comparisonof Experimentsand Distributions.- Comparison of Experiments and Information in Censored Data.- A Note on Approximate D-Optimal Designs for G ? 2m.- Some Statistical Design Aspects of Estimating Automotive Emission Deterioration Factors.- Peakedness in Multivariate Distributions.- Spatial Designs.