2005, Vol. 29, Núm. 1

Summary

  • The M/G/1 retrial queue: an information theoretic approach 

    Artalejo, Jesús R.; López Herrero, María Jesús (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    In this paper, we give a survey of the use of information theoretic techniques for the estimation of the main performance characteristics of the M/G/1 retrial queue. We focus on the limiting distribution of the system ...

  • Estimation of the spectral density of a homogeneous random stable discrete time field 

    Demesh, Nikolay N.; Chekhmenok, Sergey L. (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    In earlier papers, 2π-periodic spectral data windows have been used in spectral estimation of discretetime random fields having finite second-order moments. In this paper, we show that 2π-periodic spectral windows can ...

  • Automatic error localisation for categorical, continuous and integer data 

    Waal, Ton de (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    Data collected by statistical offices generally contain errors, which have to be corrected before reliable data can be published. This correction process is referred to as statistical data editing. At statistical offices, ...

  • Information matrices for some elliptically symmetric distributions 

    Nadarajah, Saralees; Kotz, Samuel (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    The Fisher information matrices are derived for three of the most popular elliptically symmetric distributions: the Pearson type II, Pearson type VII and the Kotz type distributions. We hope the results could be important ...

  • Correspondence analysis and 2-way clustering 

    Ciampi, Antonio; González Marcos, Ana; Castejón Limas, Manuel (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    Correspondence analysis followed by clustering of both rows and columns of a data matrix is proposed as an approach to two-way clustering. The novelty of this contribution consists of: i)proposing a simple method for the ...

  • Positivity theorem for a general manifold 

    Léandre, Rémi (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    We give a generalization in the non-compact case to various positivity theorems obtained by Malliavin Calculus in the compact case.

  • Graphical display in outlier diagnostics; adequacy and robustness 

    Jajo, Nethal K. (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    Outlier robust diagnostics (graphically) using Robustly Studentized Robust Residuals (RSRR) and Partial Robustly Studentized Robust Residuals (PRSRR) are established. One problem with some robust residual plots is that the ...

  • Book review: Gut, Allan. "Probability: a graduate course". New York: Springer, 2005, 603 pp. 

    Bardina i Simorra, Xavier (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    This is a graduate level text in probability theory. The book is clearly written and the emphasis is placed on theory, while there is mention of some applications. The reader needs to have a moderate background of measure theory.

  • Book review: Gut, Allan. "Testing statistical hypotheses" (3rd edition). A classic Lehman and Romano book. New York: Springer, 2005, 784 pp. 

    Solé, Josep Lluís (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2005)
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    It is at the same time easy and difficult to say something about a book that has become a classic, and this "Testing Statistical Hypotheses" is evidently the third edition of a book in this category. Almost all statisticians ...