Statistics and its Applications: Platinum Jubilee Conference, Kolkata, India, December 2016 [Paperback]

This book discusses recent developments and the latest research in statistics and its applications, primarily in agriculture and industry, survey sampling and biostatistics, gathering articles on a wide variety of topics. Written by leading academics, scientists, researchers and scholars from around the globe to mark the platinum jubilee of the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta in 2016, the book is a valuable resource for statisticians, aspiring researchers and professionals across educational levels and disciplines.

Chapter 1. Abisa Sinha, Fragmentation of Young Massive Clusters: A Hybrid MonteCarlo Simulation Study.- Chapter 2. Anamika Dutta and Kishore K. Das, A Study on DNA Sequence of Rice using Scoring Matrix Method and ANOVA Technique.- Chapter 3. Sungsu Kim and Ashis SenGupta, Regressions Involving Circular Variables: An Overview.- Chapter 4. Ramesh M. Mirajkar and Bhausaheb G. Kore, On Construction of Prediction Interval for Weibull Distribution.- Chapter 5. Thorsten Dickhaus, Combining high-Dimensional Classification and Multiple Hypotheses Testing for the Analysis of Big Data in Genetics.- Chapter 6. Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty and Dreamlee Sharma, The Quantile-based Skew Logistic Distribution with Applications.- Chapter 7. Jiming Jiang, A Note on MonteCarlo Jackknife: McJack and Big Data.- Chapter 8. Jogesh Babu, Introduction to the Detection and Statistical Challenges of Exoplanets.- Chapter 9. Thuan Nguyen and Jiming Jiang, A Connection between the Observed Best Prediction and the Fence Model Selection Method.- Chapter 10. Siegfried Gabler, Matthias Ganninger and Partha Lahiri, A New Approximation to the True Randomization-Based Design Els*