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MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
presents....
MINI-CONFERENCE ON
"DISTRIBUTION THEORY AND INFERENCE"
ORGANIZERS: N. Balakrishnan and V. Nevzorov
LOCATION: Burke Science Building, Room B/138 (Please
note room change)
DATE: Tuesday June 24, 2003
OPENING REMARKS: 9:10
- 9:15 am
SESSION I:
9:15 - 9:45 M.C.
Jones
The
Open University
Milton
Keynes, U.K.
"From
order statistics back to ordinary statistics"
9:45 - 10:15 V.
Nevzorov
St.
Petersburg State University
Russia
"Independence
of record indicators: Discrete distributions"
10:15 - 10:45 S.
G. Mohanty
McMaster
University
Canada
"Combinatorial
methods in discrete distributions"
10:45 - 11:15 I.
Akundov
McMaster
University
Canada
"New
Characterizations by linearity of regression, associated with order
statistics"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
Break
Location:
Math Department Lounge, BSB/135
SESSION II:
11:30 - 12:00 N.
Balakrishnan
McMaster
University
Canada
"Bivariate
continuous distributions with specified conditional hazard functions"
12:00 - 12:30 H.K.
Tony Ng
Southern
Methodist University
Dallas,
U.S.A.
"Point
estimation for a modified Weibull distribution based on progressively
Type-II censored data"
12:30 - 1:00 A.
Childs
McMaster
University
Canada
"A
comparison of two procedures for outlier testing in linear models"
1:00 - 1:30 S.
Malov
St.
Petersburg State University
Russia
"Estimation
in some semiparametric multivariate models using copulas"
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