Christensen, R., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Plane Answers to Complex Questions, 3rd ed.
The Theory of Linear Models

3rd ed. 2002. Approx. 500 pp. Hardcover
0-387-95361-2

This textbook provides a wide-ranging introduction to the use and theory of linear models for analyzing data. The author's emphasis is on providing a unified treatment of linear models, including analysis of variance models and regression models, based on projections, orthogonality, and other vector space ideas. Every chapter comes with numerous exercises and examples that make it ideal for a graduate- level course. All of the standard topics are covered in depth: ANOVA, estimation including Bayesian estimation, hypothesis testing, multiple comparisons, regression analysis, and experimental design models. In addition, the book covers topics that are not usually treated at this level, but which are important in their own right: balanced incomplete block designs, testing for lack of fit, testing for independence, models with singular covariance matrices, variance component estimation, best linear and best linear unbiased prediction, collinearity, and variable selection. This new edition includes discussion of identifiability and its relationship to estimability, different approaches to the theories of testing parametric hypotheses and analysis of covariance, additional discussion of the geometry of least squares estimation and testing, new discussion of models for experiments with factorial treatment structures, and a new appendix on possible causes for getting test statistics that are so small as to be suspicious. Ronald Christensen is a Professor of Statistics at the University of New Mexico. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Contents: Introduction.- Estimation.- Testing Hypotheses.- One-Way ANOVA.- Multiple Comparison Techniques.- Regression Analysis.- Multifactor Analysis of Variance.- Experimental Design Models.- Analysis of Covariance.- Estimation and Testing in General Gauss-Markov Models.- Split Plot Models.- Mixed Models and Variance Components.- Checking.- Assumptions, Residuals, and Influential Observations.- Variable Selection and Collinearity.

Series: Springer Texts in Statistics.

Luderer, B., Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany;
Nollau, V., Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany;
Vetters, K., Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

Mathematical Formulas for Economists

2002. X, 186 pp. 58 figs., 6 tabs. Softcover
3-540-42616-7

The present collection of formulas has been composed for students of economics or management science at universities, colleges and trade schools. It contains basic knowledge in mathematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a compact and clearly arranged form. This volume is meant to be a reference work to be used by students of undergraduate courses together with a textbook and by researchers in need of exact statements of mathematical results. People dealing with practical or applied problems will also find this collection to be an efficient and easy-to-use work of reference.

Keywords: Formulas, collection of formulas, mathematical manual, financial

Jajuga, K., University of Wroclaw, Poland;
Sokolowski, A., University of Cracow, Poland;
Bock, H.-H., Technische Universitat, Aachen, Germany (Eds.)

Classification, Clustering and Data Analysis
Recent Advances and Applications

2002. XI, 492 pp. 84 figs., 65 tabs. Softcover
3-540-43691-X

This book deals with recent developments in classification and data analysis and presents new topics which are of central interest to modern statistics. In particular, these include: classification models and clustering methods, multivariate data analysis, symbolic data, neural networks and learning devices, phylogeny and bioinformatics, new software systems for classification and data analysis, as well as applications in social, economic, biological, medical and other sciences. The book presents a long list of useful methods for classification, clustering and data analysis. By combining theoretical aspects with practical problems it is designed for researchers as well as for applied statisticians and will support the fast transfer of new methodological advances to a wide range of applications.

Keywords: Data Analysis, Classification, Clustering, Neural Networks, Bioinformatics

Series: Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization.

Koul, H.L., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Weighted Empirical Processes in Dynamic Nonlinear Models, 2nd ed.

2002. Approx. 440 pp. Softcover
0-387-95476-7

This book presents a unified approach for obtaining the limiting distributions of minimum distance, M and R estimators corresponding to non-smooth underlying scores in a large class of dynamic non-linear models including ARCH models. It also discusses classes of goodness-of-t tests for fitting an error distribution in some of these models and/or fitting a regression-autoregressive function without assuming the knowledge of the error distribution. The main tool is the asymptotic equicontinuity of certain basic weighted residual empirical processes in the uniform and L2 metrics. The contents of this monograph should be useful to graduate students and research scholars in statistics, econometrics, and finance. This book is a an updated edition of the author's monograph "Weighted Empirical Processes and Linear Models" (IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph 21, 1992). The new edition differs from the previous one in many ways. To mention just a few: It includes asymptotically distribution free tests for fitting a regression and/or an autoregressive models; the asymptotic distributions of auto-regression quantiles and rank scores; and above all the weak convergence of the residual empirical processes useful in nonlinear ARCH models.

Hira L. Koul is a professor of statistics at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the IMS and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award for Senior Researchers in 1995. He has been on the editorial boards of the Annals of Statistics, Sankhya, and J. Indian Statistical Association. Currently he is a Coordinating Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and an Associate Editor of Statistics and Probability Letters.

Contents: Introduction.- Asymptotic Properties of Weighted Empirical Processes.- Linear Rank and Signed Rank Statistics.- M, R and Some Scale Estimators.- Minimum Distance Estimators.- Goodness-of-fit Tests in Regression.- Autoregression.- Nonlinear Autoregression.

Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics. VOL. 166

Bolthausen, E., University of Zurich, Switzerland;
Perkins, E., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;
Vaart, A.,van der, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics
Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXIX - 1999

2002. VIII, 474 pp. Softcover
3-540-43736-3

This book contains three state of the art texts on the following subjects:
-Large Deviations and Iterating Random Walks
-Dawson-Watanabe Superprocesses and Measure-Valued Diffusions
-Semiparametric Statistics

Keywords: Probability Theory, semiparametric statistics, large deviations, superprocesses . Mathematics Subject Classification ( 2000 ): 60-01, 60-06, 60F05, 60F10, 60G57, 60J15, 60K35, 62-01, 62-06, 62F12, 62G05, 62G20, 82B24, 82B26

Contents: 1. Erwin Bolthausen: Large Deviations and Interacting Random Walks.- 2. Edwin Perkins: Dawson-Dawson-Watanabe Superprocesses and Measure-Valued Diffusions.- 3. A. W. van der Vaart: Semiparametric Statistics.

Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics. VOL. 1781

Eliasson, H., Universite Paris 7, Paris, France;
Kuksin, S., Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, UK;
Marmi, S., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy;
Yoccoz, J.-C., College de France, Paris, France

Dynamical Systems and Small Divisors
Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro Italy, June 13-20, 1998

2002. VIII, 191 pp. Softcover
3-540-43726-6

Many problems of stability in the theory of dynamical systems face the difficulty of small divisors. The most famous example is probably given by Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory in the context of Hamiltonian systems, with many applications to physics and astronomy. Other natural small divisor problems arise considering circle diffeomorphisms or quasiperiodic Schroedinger operators. In this volume Hakan Eliasson, Sergei Kuksin and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz illustrate the most recent developments of this theory both in finite and infinite dimension. A list of open problems (including some problems contributed by John Mather and Michel Herman) has been included.

Keywords: Dynamical systems, Small Divisors, Quasiperiodic ( orbits and flows ). Mathematics Subject Classification ( 2000 ): 37C55, 37F25, 37F50, 37J40, 37K55, 47B39, 34L40

Contents: Hakan Eliasson: Perturbations of Linear Quasi-Periodic System.- Sergei B. Kuksin: KAM-Persistence of Finite-Gap Solutions.- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz: Analytic Linearization of Circle Diffeomorphisms.- Stefano Marmi and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz: Some Open Problems Related to Small Divisors.

Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics. VOL. 1784