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Nonparametrics and robustness in modern statistical inference and time series analysis: A Festschrift in honor of Professor Jana Jurečková. (English) Zbl 1228.62003

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Collections 7. Beachwood, OH: IMS, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (ISBN 978-0-940600-80-5). ix, 267 p. (2010).
Publisher’s description: In the broader domain of statistics and probability theory, Jana Jurečková is a distinguished researcher, especially in Europe and among the womanly researchers. Her fundamental research contributions stemmed from the inspiring ideas of her advisor Jaroslav Hájek and covered the evolving areas of nonparametrics, general asymptotic theory, robust statistics, as well as applications in sampling theory, econometrics and environmetrics. She has a longstanding and exemplary leadership of the academics; the Czech (Oslovakian) school of statistics has indeed benefited from her professional acumen. Jurečková has an illuminating career in the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the, Charles University in Prague, for over forty years.
It was thought that at the juncture of her career, she should be honored and recognized for her standing in her professional field. The idea of floating this Festschrift was essentially due to the three editors of this volume and, in addition, the spontaneous response from her colleagues far beyond the boundaries of her native country has been truly inspiring. Jurečková has also a long list of collaborators and former advisees. Because of time and space constraints, not all of them could be invited to contribute to this Festschrift, and a chosen handful of contributors with professional standing have spanned the broad area of Jana’s research interests.
Besides an article of appreciation of her life and work by the three editors, there are twenty-four articles with a list of co-authors, over 40. All these articles have gone through the usual peer-reviewing procedure in strict adherence to the high standards of the IMS Lecture Notes and Collection Series. To all the reviewers we have deep gratitude for their most timely job. To the contributors we are truly grateful for their willingness to contribute in a relatively short time and to many of them for refereeing some other submitted articles. We could not have reached this stage of the Festschrift without their support and interest.

MSC:

62-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to statistics
00B30 Festschriften
62G35 Nonparametric robustness
62M10 Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH)

Biographic References:

Jurečková, Jana
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