Random walk, sequential analysis and related topics: a Festschrift in honor of Yuan-Shih Chow

This volume is a collection of papers in celebration of the 80th birthday of Yuan-Shih Chow, whose influential work in probability and mathematical statistics has contributed greatly to mathematics education and the development of statistics research and application in Taiwan and mainland China. The twenty-two papers cover a wide range of problems reflecting both the broad scope of areas where Professor Chow has made major contributions and recent advances in probability theory and statistics. Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Maximizing Expected Value with Two Stage Stopping Rules (64

CONTENTS ; A Conversation with Yuan Shih Chow ; Publications of Yuan Shih Chow ; Preface ; Sequential Analysis ; Maximizing Expected Value with Two Stage Stopping Rules ; Normal Approximation for Two-Stage Winner Design

A Restricted Minimax Determination of the Initial Sample Size in Stein's and Related Two-Stage Procedure Incorporating Overrunning Data into the Analysis of Both Primary and Secondary Endpoints in a Sequential Trial ; Probability Theory

Central Limit Theorems for Instantaneous Filters of Linear Random Fields on Z2 A Study of Inverses of Thinned Renewal Processes ; Stochastic Games of Control and Stopping for a Linear Diffusion ; On Dirichlet Multinomial Distributions ; The Optimal Stopping Problem for Sn/n and Its Ramifcations

Bold Play and the Optimal Policy for Vardi's Casino The Upper Limit of a Normalized Random Walk ; Semiparametric Statistics ; Analysis of a Sequence of Dependent 2 x 2 Tables ; A New Test of Symmetry about an Unknown Median

The Cox Proportional Hazards Model with a Partially Known Baseline Nonparametric Statistics ; The Logistic Distribution and a Rank Test for Non-Transitivity ; A Note on the Consistency in Bayesian Shape-Restricted Regression with Random Bernstein Polynomials