Game theory, optimal stopping, probability and statistics: Paper in honor of T.S. Ferguson

01_Miscellaneous Frontmatter.pdf......Page 1
02_Preface.pdf......Page 6
03_Photograph of Thomas S Ferguson.pdf......Page 7
04_Biography.pdf......Page 8
05_My contacts with Tom Ferguson.pdf......Page 10
06_Bibliography of Thomas S. Ferguson.pdf......Page 12
07_Papers By Topics.pdf......Page 16
08_Papers in Alphabetical Order of Contributors.pdf......Page 18
09_Acknowledgement and List of Referees.pdf......Page 19
10_Sums of __ Amazons.pdf......Page 21
11_The square-root game.pdf......Page 55
12_Randomized strategies and terminal distributions.pdf......Page 59
13_Games against a prophet for stochastic processes.pdf......Page 73
14_A note on Bruss stopping problem with random availability.pdf......Page 90
15_On the optimal control of parallel systems and queues.pdf......Page 102
16_Sequential selection of an increasing subsequence from a random sample.pdf......Page 120
17_A class of best-choice problems on sequences of continuous bivariate random variables.pdf......Page 130
18_Minimal expected ranks for the secretary problems with uncertain selection.pdf......Page 146
19_Boundary crossing probabilities in linkage analysis.pdf......Page 159
20_Complete lattices of probability measures with applications to martingale theory.pdf......Page 171
21_The almost sure number of pairwise sums for certain random integer.pdf......Page 197
22_Efficient coupling on the circle.pdf......Page 209
23_Computing extended maximum likelihood estimates for Cox proportional-hazards models.pdf......Page 222
24_Graph layout techniques and multidimensional data analysis.pdf......Page 236
25_The efficiency of some nonparametric rank-based competitors to correlogram methods.pdf......Page 266
26_Sequential estimation of functions of.pdf......Page 280
27_Estimating relative density on a metric space.pdf......Page 312
28_Bayesian designs from asymptotics.pdf......Page 330
29_Post Scriptum.pdf......Page 342