Front Cover; Statistical Data Analysis and Inference; Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1. C.RADHAKRISHNA RAO'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO STATISTICS; 1. BIOGRAPHY; 2. CONTRIBUTIONS TO STATISTICS; 3. PROFESSIONNAL ACTIVITIES; 4. OUTSIDE THE WORLD OF STATISTICS; References; CHAPTER 2. NONLINEAR ESTIMATION IN LINEAR MODELS; 1. BRIEF OVERVIEW; 2. WHY NONLINEAR METHODS?; 3. EFFICIENCY LOSSES OF LEAST SQUARES UNDER HIGH-QUALITY REAL DATA; 4. SOME EXAMPLES OF STRUCTURED DATA; 5. SOME THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 3. ON THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF FACTORS IN TWO CONSTRUCTION METHODS FOR ORTHOGONAL ARRAYS1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE CONSTRUCTION METHODS; 3. THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF FACTORS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. SOME GEOMETRICAL ASPECTS OF DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SOME DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF DISTANCES; 3. THE RAO DISTANCE CONSTRUCTION; 4. A DISTANCE BETWEEN STATISTICAL INDIVIDUALS; 5. TESTING STATISTICAL HYPOTHESES THROUGH RAO DISTANCE; 6. THE GEOMETRY OF ELLIPTIC PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Part One: INFERENCE AND TEST OF HYPOTHESES

CHAPTER 5. ON BAYES AND EMPIRICAL BAYES TWO-STAGE ALLOCATION PROCEDURES FOR SELECTION PROBLEMS1. INTRODUCTION; 2. NORMAL MODEL; 3. An Adaptive Two-Stage Allocation Procedure; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. MULTI-SAMPLE FUNCTIONAL STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DATA; 3. SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; 4. RANKS, MID-RANKS, AND MID-DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; 5. SAMPLE MEANS AND VARIANCES; 6. TWO SAMPLE NORMAL T TEST; 7. TWO-SAMPLE NONPARAMETRIC WILCOXON TEST; 8. TEST OF EQUALITY OF c SAMPLES NORMAL CASE; 9. TEST OF EQUALITY OF c SAMPLES NONPARAMETRIC KRUSKAL-WALLIS TEST; 10. COMPONENTS