The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding - Softcover

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Three Articles Reviewing Hoeffding's Work.- Wassily Hoeffding' s Work in the Sixties.- The Impact of Wassily Hoeffding's Work on Sequential Analysis.- The Impact of Wassily Hoeffding's Research on Nonparametrics.- Publications.- Scale-Invariant Correlation Theory (English Translation).- Scale-Invariant Correlations for Discontinuous Distributions (English Translation).- Stochastic Dependence and Functional Relationships (English Translation).- On the Distribution of the Rank Correlation Coefficient r when the Variates are not Independent.- A Class of Statistics with Asymptotically Normal Distribution.- The Central Limit Theorem for Dependent Random Variables (with Herbert Robbins).- A Non-Parametric Test of Independence.- 'Optimum' Non-Parametric Tests.- A Combinatorial Central Limit Theorem.- The Large-Sample Power of Tests Based on Permutations of Observations.- On the Distribution of the Expected Values of the Order Statistics.- A Lower Bound for the Average Sample Number of a Sequential Test.- Bounds for the Distribution of a Sum of Independent, Identically Distributed Random Variables (with S.S. Shrikhande).- The Efficiency of Tests (with J.R. Rosenblatt).- The Extrema of the Expected Value of a Function of Independent Random Variables.- On the Distribution of the Number of Successes in Independent Trials.- The role of Assumptions in Statistical Decisions.- Distinguishability of Sets of Distributions. (The case of Independent and Identically Distributed Random Variables) (with J Wolfowitz).- Lower Bounds for the Expected Sample Size and the Average Risk of a Sequential Procedure.- An Upper Bound for the Variance of Kendall's 'Tau' and of Related Statistics.- Lower Bounds for the Expected Sample Size of a Sequential Test.- On Sequences of Sums of Independent Random Vectors.- Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables.- On a Theorem of V.M. Zolotarev.- Asymptotically Optimal Tests for Multinomial Distributions (with Discussion).- On Probabilities of Large Deviations.- Some Recent Developments in Nonparametric Statistics.- Unbiased Coin Tossing with a Biased Coin (with Gordon Simons).- Discussion of J. Hájek, Miscellaneous Problems of Rank Test Theory.- Discussion of H. Witting, On the Theory of Nonparametric Tests.- The L1 norm of the Approximation Error for Bernstein-Type Polynomials.- On the Centering of a Simple Linear Rank Statistic.- The L1 norm of the Approximation Error for Splines with Equidistant Knots.- Harold Hotelling, 1895-1973.- H.Hotelling.- Some Incomplete and Boundedly Complete Families of Distributions.- More on Incomplete and Boundedly Complete Families of Distributions.- A Statistician's Progress from Berlin to Chapel Hill.- Unbiased Range-Preserving Estimators.- Range Preserving Unbiased Estimators in the Multinomial Case.- Entries in The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences edited by S. Kotz, N.L. Johnson and C.B. Read. New York: Wiley.- Asymptotic Normality.- Hájek's Projection Lemma.- Hoeffding's Independence Test.- Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables.- Range-Preserving Estimators.- Book Reviews.- S.S. Wilks, Mathematical Statistics.- G. Udny Yule Sz M. G. Kendall, An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, 14th Edition.- D.A.S. Fraser, Nonparametric Methods in Statistics.- B.V. Gnedenko & A.N. Kolmogorov, Limit Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Variables.- J. Hájek & S. Šidak, Theory of Rank Tests.- E.L. Lehmann, Testing Statistical Hypotheses.

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