Handbook of Tables for Order Statistics from Lognormal Distributions with Applications

By Kenneth E. Hagin

Book Overview

Lognormal distributions are one of the most commonly studied models in the sta­ tistical literature while being most frequently used in the applied literature. The lognormal distributions have been used in problems arising from such diverse fields as hydrology, biology, communication engineering, environmental science, reliability, agriculture, medical science, mechanical engineering, material science, and pharma­ cology. Though the lognormal distributions have been around from the beginning of this century (see Chapter 1), much of the work concerning inferential methods for the parameters of lognormal distributions has been done in the recent past. Most of these methods of inference, particUlarly those based on censored samples, involve extensive use of numerical methods to solve some nonlinear equations. Order statistics and their moments have been discussed quite extensively in the literature for many distributions. It is very well known that the moments of order statistics can be derived explicitly only in the case of a few distributions such as exponential, uniform, power function, Pareto, and logistic. In most other cases in­ cluding the lognormal case, they have to be numerically determined. The moments of order statistics from a specific lognormal distribution have been tabulated ear­ lier. However, the moments of order statistics from general lognormal distributions have not been discussed in the statistical literature until now primarily due to the extreme computational complexity in their numerical determination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892765070
• ISBN13: 9780892765072
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Faith Library Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.4" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Interesting book on combinatorics

This is a charming text on elementary combinatorics. Counting, or enumerative combinatorics, is-as the writer says-hard, but after you have gone through this very readable book, it becomes less hard and more interesting-so much so that you will want more of it. The reader is very much helped by the Back of the Book section which provides answers and, in many cases, solutions as well.

Great Introduction on Counting

This book is a good introduction to counting (combinatoric type counting). The book has answers to most of it's problems and recommends you try the problems before looking at the answers. Most of the problems are simple, and hit hard on the idea the section of the book is trying to get across.It covers simple counting, groups, generating functions, recurrence relations and mathematical induction. The book concludes with graph...