The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

This paper puts forward an overall view of statistics. It is argued that statistics is the study of
uncertainty. The many demonstrations that uncertainties can only combine according to the …

The aim of this book is to develop an understanding and treatment of the problems of
inference associated with experiments in science. Many textbooks treat inference as …

Large quantiles of extreme value distributions are useful to assess the risk of environmental
disasters. Profile likelihood intervals of quantiles are shown here to be optimal for samples …

When analyzing environmental or chemical data, we often have to deal with left-censored
observations with one or more detection limits. Estimators of the parameters are derived for …

Let {Xt} be a zero mean, Gaussian, autoregressive process of order one with parameter α.
For a realization (X1, X2,…, Xn)′ of {Xt}, we consider the transformation Yt= Xt/Xt− 1, for t …

Con la finalidad de conocer el riesgo de los contaminantes con niveles extraordinariamente
bajos, como los metales pesados, se buscan medirlos y cuantificarlos; sin embargo, a veces …

Frecuentemente, la descripción y comparación de poblaciones con concentraciones de
contaminantes se realiza empleando métodos no paramétricos. En la práctica, si las …

The analysis of one hundred ground beef samples in a time frame that bracketed the 27
January 1997 implementation of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis and Critical …