Special Issue: 3rd St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation

Advances in Stochastic Simulation Methods
Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology
Balakrishnan, N.; Melas, V.B.; Ermakov, S. (Eds.)
2000, XXVI, 386 p. 100 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-8176-4107-8
A Birkhäuser book

1. Solving the Nonlinear Algebraic Equations with Monte Carlo Method 3
2. Monte Carlo Algorithms For Neumann Boundary Value Problem Using Fredholm Representation 17
3. Estimation Errors for Functionals on Measure Spaces 29
4. The Multilevel Method of Dependent Tests 47
5. Algebraic Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Acyclic Fork-Join Queueing Networks 63

1. Analytical Theory of E-Optimal Designs for Polynomial Regression 85
2. Bias Constrained Minimax Robust Designs for Misspecified Regression Models 117
3. A Comparative Study of MV - and SMV-Optimal Designs for Binary Response Models 135
4. On the Criteria for Experimental Design in Nonlinear Error-In-Variables Models 153
5. On Generating and Classifying all a[superscript n-m-1] Regularly Blocked Factional Designs 165
6. Locally Optimal Designs in Non-Linear Regression: A Case Study of the Michaelis-Menten Function 177
7. D-Optimal Designs for Quadratic Regression Models 189
8. On the Use of Symmetry in Optimal Design of Experiments 197

1. Higher Order Moments of Order Statistics from the Pareto Distribution and Edgeworth Approximate Inference 207
2. Higher Order Moments of Order Statistics from the Power Function Distribution and Edgeworth Approximate Inference 245
3. Selecting from Normal Populations the One with the Largest Absolute Mean: Comon Unknown Variance Case 283
4. Conditional Inference for the Parameters of Pareto Distributions when Observed Samples are Progressively Censored 293

1. On Randomizing Estimators in Linear Regression Models 305
2. Nonstationary Generalized Automata with Periodically Variable Parameters and Their Optimization 315
3. Power of Some Asymptotic Tests for Maximum Entropy 337
4. Partially Inversion of Functions for Statistical Modelling of Regulatory Systems 355
5. Simple Efficient Estimation for Three-Parameter Lognormal Distributions with Applications to Emissions Data and State Traffic Rate Data 373