TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - AU - TI - Celebrating statistics: papers in honour of Sir David Cox on the occasion of his 80th birthday SN - 9780198566540 AV - QA276.C38 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, New York : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Statistics N1 - previously published in 2005; Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-289) and indexes ; List of figures; List of plates; List of tables; David R. Cox: A brief biography; 1 Stochastic models for epidemics; 2 Stochastic soil moisture dynamics and vegetation response; 3 Theoretical statistics and asymptotics; 4 Exchangeability and regression models; 5 On semiparametric inference; 6 On non-parametric statistical methods; 7 Some topics in social statistics; 8 Biostatistics: the near future; 9 The early breast cancer trialists' collaborative group: a brief history of results to date; 10 How computing has changed statistics; 11 Are there discontinuities in financial prices? N2 - 'Celebrating Statistics' is a tribute to Sir David Cox who has had an immense influence on modern statistics. Each chapter presents current developments across a range of research areas from epidemiology, environmental science, finance, computing and medicine UR - uniform resource identifier ER -