دانلود کتاب A Modern Course on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work: Volume 2 — Model Building and Model Selection Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada July 29 – August 10, 1974

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Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Statistical Modelling: An Alternative View....Pages 1-9
Chance Mechanisms for Discrete Distributions in Scientific Modeling....Pages 11-24
Random Numbers: The Need, the History, the Generators....Pages 25-36
Chance Mechanisms in Computer Generation of Random Variables....Pages 37-50
A Probability Distribution with Applications to Monte Carlo Simulation Studies....Pages 51-64
On the Discrimination Between Two Location and Scale Parameter Models....Pages 65-78
Applications of Characterizations in the Area of Goodness of Fit....Pages 79-90
Test for Normality Using a Characterization....Pages 91-104
Tests for Normality Using Minimum Chi — Square....Pages 105-112
A New Statistic for Testing an Assumed Distribution....Pages 113-124
The Poisson Distribution: The Theory and Application of Some Conditional Tests....Pages 125-140
The Size of Human Settlements....Pages 141-150
Statistical Models for Personal Income Distributions....Pages 151-158
Symmetric Distributions with Fat Tails: Interrelated Compound Distributions Estimated by Box-Jenkins Methods....Pages 159-174
A Marketing Application of a Characterization Theorem....Pages 175-185
Statistical Problems of Size and Shape. I. Biological Applications and Basic Theorems....Pages 187-218
Statistical Problems of Size and Shape. II. Characterizations of the Lognormal, Gamma and Dirichlet Distributions....Pages 219-239
Skew Distributions in Biomedicine Including some with Negative Powers of Time....Pages 241-262
Models in Medicine and Toxicology....Pages 263-274
Mass-Size Distributions: A Review and a Proposed New Model....Pages 275-288
Application of Statistical Models to Engineering Problems....Pages 289-300
Failure and Mortality from Wear and Ageing. The Teissier Model....Pages 301-320
Some Statistical Models for Seismological Discrimination....Pages 321-326
Probability Laws for Topological Properties of Drainage Basins....Pages 327-341
Indices and Models for Aggregation in Spatial Patterns....Pages 343-353
Extreme Order Statistics in Large Samples from Exponential Type Distributions and their Application to Fire Loss....Pages 355-367
Statistical Distributions in Forestry and Forest Products Research....Pages 369-384
A Modern Course Sequence on Statistical Distributions....Pages 385-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-399