Celebrating Statistics Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday [Hardcover]

Originating from a meeting celebrating the 80th birthday of Sir David Cox, the eminent Oxford Scholar whose many important and penetrating contributions to modern statistics have had an extraordinary impact, this collection of papers by major statistical researchers provides an overview of current developments across a wide range of research areas. Contributing authors and topics include: O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen (Aarhus): Statistics and Physics; A.C. Davison (Lausanne): Statistical methods; S. Darby (Oxford): Epidemiology; D. Firth (Warwick): Social Statistics; P. Jall (Canberra): Nonparametrics; V.S.Isham (University College, London): Stochastic Modelling; P. McCullagh (Chicago): Statistical models; N. Reid (Toronto): Asymptotics; B.D. Ripley (Oxford): Statistical computing; I. Rodriguez-Iturbe (Princeton): Statistical hydrology; A. Rotnitsky (Harvard): Semiparametrics; N. Shepard (Oxford): Statistical econometrics; N. Wermuth (Mainz): Graphical models; S.L. Zeger (Johns Hopkins): Biostatistics. Suitable for students of statistics at all levels from advanced undergraduate to post graduate, for practicing statisticians, and data analysts, and for statistics and cognate fields, this book is a fitting tribute to Sir David Cox and his immense influence on modern statistics.

Preface
Biography,Yadolah Dodge
STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR EPIDEMICS,Valerie Isham
STOCHASTIC SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS AND VEGETATION RESPONSE,Amilcare Porporato and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
THEORETICAL STATISTICS AND ASYMPTOTICS,Nancy Reid
EXCHANGEABILITY AND REGRESSION MODELS,Peter McCullagh
ON SEMIPARAMETRIC INFERENCE Andrea Rotnitzky,Andrea Rotnitzky
ON NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICAL METHODS,Peter Hall
SOME TOPICS IN SOCIAL STATISTICS,David Firth
BIOSTATISTICS: THE NEAR FUTURE,Scott Zeger, Peter Diggle, and Kung-Yee Liang
THE EARLY BREAST CANCER TRIALISTS' COLLABORATIVE GROUP: A BRIEF HISl3%