INFOR.

INFOR.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994
Genre: Electronic data processing
ISBN:

Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics

Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics
Author: Martha A. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2004-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313053375

This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college and research level mathematics and statistics in the 21st century. We are in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices which have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of accessing information. Where journals, books, indexes and catalogs were once the physical representation of a good mathematics library, shelves have given way to computers, and users are often accessing information from remote places. Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking this huge transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II of the book is the bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. These are grouped by type of material. Publication dates range from the 1800's onwards. Hundreds of electronic resources-some online, both dynamic and static, some in fixed media, are listed among the paper resources. Amazingly a majority of listed electronic resources are free.

A Chronological Annotated Bibliography on Order Statistics. Volume 1. PRE-1950

A Chronological Annotated Bibliography on Order Statistics. Volume 1. PRE-1950
Author: H. Leon Harter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1978
Genre:
ISBN:

Let a sample of size n from a specified or unspecified population be arranged in nondecreasing order. Then the ordered sample values are collectively called the order statistics (plural) of the sample. In another sense of the expression, order statistics (singular) is that branch of the subject of statistics which deals with the mathematical properties of order statistics (plural) and with statistical methods based upon them. The majority of publications on order statistics deal with the order statistics of specific populations, and many of them involve the use of the sample order statistics to estimate one or more population parameters. The compiler of this bibliography makes a sharp distinction between order statistics and rank statistics, which is a branch of nonparametric statistics. Publications dealing with the ranks of the observations in the sample but not with the values (or expected values) of any of them will not in general be included in this bibliography; however, a few that are needed for comparison of methods based on ranks with alternatives based on order statistics will be included. Similarly, although the method of least squares is not based on order statistics, a substantial number of publications on least squares will be included because most alternative methods are based on order statistics and comparisons with the classical method of least squares are inevitable.