Serials Spoken Here–Reports of Conferences,Institutes and Seminars

ABSTRACT

This quarter's column offers a report from the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, held May 14–17, 2016, in Timberline Lodge, Oregon, and also provides coverage of multiple sessions from the Kraemer Copyright Conference, held June 6–7, 2016, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Some reports are collected, as well, from the NASIG Annual Conference, held June 9–12, 2016, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, held June 23–28, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. Lastly, there is a report from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress, held August 13–19, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include open access, linked data, copyright, text mining, e-resource management, and digitization.     

An attempt at the econometric specification of the socioeconomic determinants of migratory movements and migration balance

An analysis of internal migration in Poland is presented. Models of out-migration, in-migration, and migration balance are constructed for each of the 49 voivodships for 1979. Factors affecting migration are analyzed, including per capita investment, employment, output, fixed capital, per capita retail sales, housing, social services, manufacturing payroll, school enrollment, per capita hospital beds, movie theater seats, and book publications.     

Information Measures for Some Well-Known Families

In this article, results for some well-known families such as Pareto IV, generalized logistic, generalized gamma, double generalized gamma, generalized normal, inverse gamma, and Weibull, and their related families via the links between entropy, variance, Fisher information, and analog of the Fisher information, are derived.     

On Stein Identity,Chernoff Inequality,and Orthogonal Polynomials

In this article, we present a general method for deriving Stein-like identity and Chernoff-like inequality based on orthogonal polynomials. In order to illustrate our method, some applications are given with respect to normal, Gamma, Beta, Poisson, binomial, and negative binomial distribution, not only for random variables but also for random vectors, resulting corresponding Stein-like identity and Chernoff-like inequality are obtained consequently. Within our best knowledge, some of our matrix version results are new in the literature. In addition, forward difference formulae of Charlier polynomials, Krawtchouk polynomials and Meixner polynomials, Stein-like identity, and Chernoff-like inequality with respect to Beta distribution, as well as Rodrigues formula of Meixner polynomials are also prepared in the first time within our limited information. Interestingly, as far as normal, Gamma, Beta, Poisson, binomial, and negative binomial distribution are concerned, we found that their Stein-like identity and corresponding Chernoff-like inequality are related closely, by examining their Rodrigues formula.     

Book review

G.Bamberg:Statistische Entseheldungstheorle, Physica-Verlag, Würzburg-Wien 1972, 149 S., DM 20,–.

J.M.Mendel:Discrete Techniques of Parameter Estimation. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York 1973, XIV, 385 S., $ 19.50.

P.Eykhoff:System Identification. Parameter and State Estimation. John Wiley & Sons, London 1974, XX, 555 pp., £ 12.50.

G.Härtler:Versuchsplanung und Statistische Datenanalyse, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976, 103 S., 6 Abb., 12,– M.

P.Mertens(Hrsg.):Prognoserechnung. Physica-Verlag, Würzburg-Wien 1973; 295 S., DM 48,–

E.Schaich, D. Kohle, W.Schweitzer, F.Wegner:Statistik I (für Volkswirte, Betriebswirte und Soziologen.) Verlag Franz Vahlen GrnbH, München 1974, 160 S., DM 22,80.

A.Rosengard: Probabilltés et Statistique en Recherche Scientifique. Dunod, Paris 1972, XIV, 310 S.

D. Zschocke:Betriebsökonometrie.Physica-Verlag, Würzburg-Wien 1974, 287 S., DM 90.–.

J.C.G. Boot, E.B. Cox:Statistical Analysis for Managerial Decisions. McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York 1970, XI, 651 S.

H.Richter, V. Mammitzsch: Methode der kleinsten Quallrate (mit Übungen und Aufgaben).Verlag Berliner Union GmbH, Stuttgart, und Verlag W. Kohlharnmer GmbH, Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln-Mainz 1973, 144 S., DM 24,–.

O.Anderson, W. Popp, M. Schaffranek, D. Steinmetz, H. Stenger: Schätzen und Testen. Eine Einfhrung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und schließeude Statistik.Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1976, XI, 385 S., 68 Abb., 56 Tab., DM 19,80.

H.Bauer:Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Grundzilge der Maßtheorie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1974, 407 S., DM 48,–.

A.M.Mathai, P.N. Rathie:Basic Concepts in Information and Statistics(Axioluatic Foundations and Applications). Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi 1975, X, 137 S., £ 2.75; $ 5.50.

D.F.Merriam (Hrsg.): Random Processes in Geology.Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1976, VIII, 168 S., 63 Abb., 18 Tab., DM 34,50.

G.Matheron: Random Sets and Integral Geometry. Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, J. Wiley and Sons, New York 1975, XXIII, 261 S., £ 10.60; $ 21.20.

L.Kleinrock: Queueing Systems. Volume I: Theory. J. Wiley and Sons, New York-London-Sydney-Toronto 1975, XVIII, 417 S.; £ 13.55; $ 24.30.

Bartsch, H.-J.:Mathematische Formeln, VEB Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1976,15. Auflage, 510 S., 362 Abb., 9,80 M.     

Stochastic approaches to inversion problems in optics

Image restoration, image smoothing, and probability law estimation are important inverse problems in optics. Within the past 10 or so years, much progress has been made toward their resolution. These problems are often ill-posed mathematically. However, such concepts as maximum entropy, maximum likelihood, binay decision discrimination, median window filtering, MAP estimation, and minimum Fisher information have proven invaluable in regularising, or reducing, the ill-posed nature of the problems. In particular, those concepts which measure uncertainty or disorder have played a central role. Given noise-prone data, concepts that describe maximal disorder (maximum entropy, minimum Fisher information, minimal bina y discrimination) exert a smoothing influence on the solutions that drastically reduces noise propagation into the output. Given insufficient but noise-free data, as in the probability estimation problem, the principle of minimum Fisher information, in particular, creates smooth estimates which, oftentimes, are physically correct as well.     

The exponentiated Weibull distribution: a survey

A review is given of the exponentiated Weibull distribution, the first generalization of the two-parameter Weibull distribution to accommodate nonmonotone hazard rates. The properties reviewed include: moments, order statistics, characterizations, generalizations and related distributions, transformations, graphical estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayes estimation, other estimation, discrimination, goodness of fit tests, regression models, applications, multivariate generalizations, and computer software. Some of the results given are new and hitherto unknown. It is hoped that this review could serve as an important reference and encourage developments of further generalizations of the two-parameter Weibull distribution.     

基于BCC模型的中国西部地区科技创新绩效分析

自西部大开发以来,西部科技创新绩效尚无准确评价。借助DEA模型中的BCC模型对西部12省市2008—2009年度科技创新投入产出数据进行计算,得出各省市综合效率、纯技术效率、规模效率的具体数值及规模收益情况。分析结果显示：重庆、四川、贵州、云南、西藏、陕西、甘肃、青海的科技创新有效,而宁夏、新疆、内蒙古、广西的科技创新无效,存在投入浪费产出不足的问题。建议西部地区通过发挥科研机构引领作用、保护知识产权、建设科研监管机制、搭建中介信息平台等措施以提高科技创新能力。     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Van Wijngaarden, A. (Editor). Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. Second printing by the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, ME101
David, F. N., Barton, D. E., Ganeshalingam, S., Harter, H. L., Kim, P. J., Merrington, M., and Walley, D. Normal Centroids, Medians and Scores for Ordinal Data. Series: Tracts for Computers
Hadley, G. Elementary Statistics
Hultquist, Robert A. Introduction to Statistics
Haber, A., and Runyon, R. P. General Statistics
Sachs, L. Statistische Auswertungsmethoden. Second edition
Johnson, N. L., and Kotz, S. Distributions in Statistics: Discrete Distributions
Anderssen, R. S., and Osborne, M. R. (Editors). Data Representation
Zuwaylif, F. H. General Applied Statistics
Schmitt, S. A. Measuring Uncertainty: An Elementary Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Breipohl, A. M. Probabilistic Systems Analysis
Larson, H. J. Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistical Inference
Klugh, Henry E. Statistics: The Essentials for Research
Mosteller, F., Bush, R. R., and Green, B. F. Selected Quantitative Techniques and Attitude Measurement
Harnett, D. L. Introduction to Statistical Methods
Krutchkoff, R. G. Probability and Statistical Inference
Haber, A., Runyon, R. P., and Badia, P. Readings in Statistics
Milton, R. C. Bank Order Probabilities: Two Sample Normal Shift Alternatives     

Conditionally gaussian distributions and an application to kalman filtering with stochastic regressors

The work reviews theory of conditionally Gaussian distributions, especially so called theorems on normal correlation. Three theorems are given: the basic, the recursive, and the conditional theorem on normal correlation. They assume that (a,y), (a,x,y), or (a,y,z) has a Gaussian distribution, ussert that (a,y), (a,x,y), and (a,y,z), respectively, are Gaussian, and give formulas for the corresponding conditional mean vectors and variance covariance matrices. A proof is presented for the recursive and the conditional theorem.     

The Logistic-Uniform Distribution and Its Applications

In this article, we give a new family of univariate distributions generated by the Logistic random variable. A special case of this family is the Logistic-Uniform distribution. We show that the Logistic-Uniform distribution provides great flexibility in modeling for symmetric, negatively and positively skewed, bathtub-shaped, “J”-shaped, and reverse “J”-shaped distributions. We discuss simulation issues, estimation by the methods of moments, maximum likelihood, and the new method of minimum spacing distance estimator. We also derive Shannon entropy and asymptotic distribution of the extreme order statistics of this distribution. The new distribution can be used effectively in the analysis of survival data since the hazard function of the distribution can be “J,” bathtub, and concave-convex shaped. The usefulness of the new distribution is illustrated through two real datasets by showing that it is more flexible in analyzing the data than the Beta Generalized-Exponential, Beta-Exponential, Beta-Normal, Beta-Laplace, Beta Generalized half-Normal, β-Birnbaum-Saunders, Gamma-Uniform, Beta Generalized Pareto, Beta Modified Weibull, Beta-Pareto, Generalized Modified Weibull, Beta-Weibull, and Modified-Weibull distributions.     

Book review

N.Jardine, R.Sibson: Mathematical Taxonomy, J. Wiley & Sons, London-New York-Sydney-Toronto 1971, XIII, 286 S., £ 6.00.

J.-F.Richard: Postior and Predictive Densities for Simultaneous Equation Models, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1973, VI, 226 S., DM 20,–.

V.Barnett: Comparative Statisitcal Inference. J. Wiley & Sons, London 1973, XV, 287 S., £ 5.25.     

Generalized linear mixed models: a review and some extensions

Breslow and Clayton (J Am Stat Assoc 88:9–25,1993) was, and still is, a highly influential paper mobilizing the use of generalized linear mixed models in epidemiology and a wide variety of fields. An important aspect is the feasibility in implementation through the ready availability of related software in SAS (SAS Institute, PROC GLIMMIX, SAS Institute Inc., URL , 2007), S-plus (Insightful Corporation, S-PLUS 8, Insightful Corporation, Seattle, WA, URL , 2007), and R (R Development Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, URL , 2006) for example, facilitating its broad usage. This paper reviews background to generalized linear mixed models and the inferential techniques which have been developed for them. To provide the reader with a flavor of the utility and wide applicability of this fundamental methodology we consider a few extensions including additive models, models for zero-heavy data, and models accommodating latent clusters.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Rall, Louis B. Computational Solution of Nonlinear Operator Equations.
Hodges, J. L., and Lehmann, E. L. Basic Concepts of Probability alzd Statistics.
Hope, Keith. Methods of Multivariate Analysis.
Heritage, Raymond S. Learning Decimal Currency. Penguin Books, Middlesex.
Wasan, M. T. Stochastic Approx%mation.
Larson, Harold J. Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistical Inference.
Anderssen, R. S., and Osborne, M. R. (Editors). Least Squares Methods in Data Analysis.
Elderton, W. P., and Johnson, N. L. Systems of Frequency Curves.
Billingsley, P. Convergence of Probability Neasuree.
Moore, P. G. Principles of Statistical Techniques. Second Edition.
Craddock, J. M. Statistics in the Computer Age.
Lukacs, E. Stochastic Converaence. Heath Mathematical Mono-graphs, Heath, Lexington, Mass.
Khinchin, A. Ya. The Teaching of Mathematics. Edited by B. V. Gnedenko.     

Tables of two-sided tolerance factors for a normal distribution

Given a random sample of size N from a normal distribution, we consider tolerance intervals of the form X ? ks to X + ks, where X is the sample mean and s is the sample standard deviation. The value of k is chosen so that the interval covers a given proportion P of the population with confidence γ. Exact values of k, computed from numerical integration, are given for N = 2(1)100; P = 0.75, 0.90, 0.95, 0.975, 0.99, 0.995, 0.999; and γ = 0.5, 0.75, 0.90, 0.95, 0.975, 0.99, 0.995. The exact values are compared with the values obtained from an approximation developed by Wald and Wolfowitz (1946).     

食品标签信息对消费者购买决策的影响研究——以婴幼儿食品为例

基于Hicks消费者剩余的CV形式,构建信息关注度、信息源信任度、信息充分度的Logit食品标签信息影响决策模型.通过在北京市发放问卷并回收、统计数据及分析,研究发现:消费者在购买婴幼儿食品时,对食品标签上的食品生产日期和保质期、营养成分、配料清单、食用指导注意等信息的关注度高,影响显著;对食品品牌、生产厂家及厂址、使用方法及贮藏、安全标识等信息关注度低,影响不显著;消费者对政府机构、婴幼儿医师和学者、亲朋及名人代言等信息源的信任度高,对购买决策影响显著;消费者对非政府机构和食品企业等信息源的信任度低,对购买决策影响不显著;食品标签信息充分度对消费者获得高质量信息、降低风险和提高决策准确度等起到的作用很大;消费者的性别、年龄、收入、受教育程度等对购买决策影响显著;相对于女性而言,食品标签信息对男性消费者的购买决策更有影响.     

Book reviews

Donald J. Koosis: Statistics. A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition. Wiley 1997, ISBN 0-471-14688-9

Christopher C. Heyde: Quasi-Likelihood and Its Applications, Springer Series in Statistics, 1997, pp. 235, [ISBN 0-387-98225-61

Jeffrey S. Simonoff: Smoothing Methods in Statistics, Springer Series in Statistics, 1996, pp. 338

Andr´e I. Khuri, Thomas Mathew and Birmal K. Sinha: Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, 1998, pp. 352, PSBN 0-471-1 5653-11

Ronald Christensen: Log-Linear Models and Logistic Regression, Springer Texts in Statistics, 1997, pp. 483, [ISBN 0-387-98247-71

E. L. Lehmann: Testing Statistical Hypotheses, Springer Texts in Statistics, 1997, pp. 600, [ISBN 0-387-94919-41

S. R. Searle, G. Casella and Ch. E. McCulloch: Variance Components, Wiley and Sons, 1992, pp. 496, [ISBN 0-471-62162-51

B. J. T. Morgan: Analysis of Quantal Response Data, Chapman & Hall, 1992, pp. 51 1

Carl D. Huberty: Applied Discriminant Analysis, Wiley and Sons, 1994, pp. 490

C. R. Rao and H. Toutenburg: Linear Models. Least Squares and Alternatives, Springer Series in Statistics, 1995, 188 pp., [ISBN 0-387-94562-81     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
De Haan, L. On Regular Variation, and Its Applications to the Weak Convergence of Sample Extremes. Mathematical Centre Tracts No. 32
Johnson, N. L., and Kotz, S. Distributions in Statistics: Continuous Univariate Distributions.
Joiner, Brian L., Laubscher, N. F., Brown, Eleanor S., and Levy, Bert. An Author and Permuted Title Index to Selected Statistical Journals.
Kendall, M. G. Bank Correlation Methods. 4th edition
Lass, H., and Gottlieb, P. Probability and Statistics.
Neveu, J. Bases Mathematiques du Caleul des Probabilites.
Maddox, I. J. Elements of Functional Analysis.
Aitchison, John. Choice Against Chance: An Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory.
Chat field, C. Statistics for Technology.
Cramer, H. Random Variables and Probability Distributions. Third edition
Feller, William (1966). An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Application.
De Leve, G., Tijms, H. C, and Weeda, P. J. Generalized MarTcovian Decision Processes (Applications).
Hajek, J. Nonparametric Statistics.
Hinderer, K. Foundations of Non-stationary Dynamic Programming with Discrete Time Parameter.
Kreyszig, E. Introductory Mathematical Statistics. Principles and Methods.
Patil, G. P. (Editor). Random Counts in Models and Structures.
Pearson, E. S., and Kendall, M. G. (Editors). Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability.
Puri, M. L. (Editor). Nonparametric Techniques in Statistical Inference.
Yates, Frank. Experimental Design—Selected Papers.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Neyman, J., and Pearson, E. S. Jiont Statistical Papers of J. Neyman and E. S. Pearson.
Pearson, E.S. The Selected Papers of E. S. Pearson.
Doornbos, R. Slippage Tests.
Fabrycky, W. J., and Torgersen, P. E. Operations Economy: Industrial Applications of Operations Research.
Krishnaiah, P. R. (Ed.). Multivariate analysis.
Takacs, Lajos. combinatorial Mehods in the Theory of stcohastic processes.
Yovits, Gilford, Wilcox, Staveley, Lerner (Editors). Research Program Effectiveness.
Noether, G. E. Elements of Nonparametric Statistics.
Hodges, J. L., and Lehmann, E. L. elements of Finite Probability.
Lamb, H. H. The Changing Climate.
Runyon, R. P., and Haber, A. Fundamentals of Behavioral Satatistics.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Draper, N., and Smith, H. Applied Regression Analysis. John Wiley & Sons.
Deutsch, R. Estimation Theory
Margaris, Angelo. First Order Mathematical Logic.
Chakravarti, I. M., Laha, R.G. and Roy, J. Handbook of Methods of Applied Statistics.
Cunningham, K. S. The Social Bcience Research Council of Australia
Martin, J. J. Bayesian Decision Problems and Markou Chains
Hillier, Frederick S., and Lieberman, Gerald J. Introduction to Operations Research
Campbell, R. C. 8tatistics for Biologists
Rozanov, Yu. A. Etationary Random Processes
Bliss, C. I. Statistics in Biology
Ferguson, Thomas S. fiIathematical atatistics: A Decision Theoretic Approach
Kingman, J. F. C., and Taylor, S. J. Introductiota to Measure and Probability
Simonnard, M. Linear Programming