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    Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    COLLECTIONS
    Volume 2
    arXiv:0806.4441v1 [math.PR] 27 Jun 2008

    Probability and Statistics:


    Essays in Honor of
    David A. Freedman

    Deborah Nolan and Terry Speed, Editors

    Institute of Mathematical Statistics


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    Contents

    Preface
    Deborah Nolan and Terry Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
    Contributors
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

    PROBABILITY
    Probability theory and its models
    Paul Humphreys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
    Dutch book in simple multivariate normal prediction: Another look
    Morris L. Eaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
    A transient Markov chain with finitely many cutpoints
    Nicholas James, Russell Lyons and Yuval Peres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
    Moments of convex distribution functions and completely alternating sequences
    Alexander Gnedin and Jim Pitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
    Brownian motion on disconnected sets, basic hypergeometric functions, and
    some continued fractions of Ramanujan
    Shankar Bhamidi, Steven N. Evans, Ron Peled and Peter Ralph . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

    STATISTICS
    Characteristics of hand and machine-assigned scores to college students’ answers
    to open-ended tasks
    Stephen P. Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
    Alternative formulas for synthetic dual system estimation in the 2000 census
    Lawrence Brown and Zhanyun Zhao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
    On the history and use of some standard statistical models
    E. L. Lehmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
    Counting the homeless in Los Angeles County
    Richard Berk, Brian Kriegler and Donald Ylvisaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
    Statistical adjustment for a measure of healthy lifestyle doesn’t yield the truth
    about hormone therapy
    Diana B. Petitti and Wansu Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
    Multiple tests of association with biological annotation metadata
    Sandrine Dudoit, Sündüz Keleş and Mark J. van der Laan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
    Multivariate data analysis: The French way
    Susan Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
    The future of census coverage surveys
    Kenneth Wachter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
    Three months journeying of a Hawaiian monk seal
    David R. Brillinger, Brent S. Stewart and Charles L. Littnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
    Projection pursuit for discrete data
    Persi Diaconis and Julia Salzman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
    DNA Probabilities in People v. Prince: When are racial and ethnic statistics
    relevant?
    David H. Kaye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

    iii
    iv Contents

    Testing earthquake predictions


    Brad Luen and Philip B. Stark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
    Curse-of-dimensionality revisited: Collapse of the particle filter in very large
    scale systems
    Thomas Bengtsson, Peter Bickel and Bo Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
    Higher order influence functions and minimax estimation of nonlinear
    functionals
    James Robins, Lingling Li, Eric Tchetgen and Aad van der Vaart . . . . . . . . . . . 335
    Preface
    This volume is our tribute to David A. Freedman, whom we regard as one of the
    great statisticians of our time. He received his B.Sc. degree from McGill University
    and his Ph.D. from Princeton, and joined the Department of Statistics of the Uni-
    versity of California, Berkeley, in 1962, where, apart from sabbaticals, he has been
    ever since.
    In a career of over 45 years, David has made many fine contributions to proba-
    bility and statistical theory, and to the application of statistics. His early research
    was on Markov chains and martingales, and two topics with which he has had a
    lifelong fascination: exchangeability and De Finetti’s theorem, and the consistency
    of Bayes estimates. His asymptotic theory for the bootstrap was also highly influ-
    ential. David was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991,
    and in 2003 he received the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
    from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
    In addition to his purely academic research, David has extensive experience as
    a consultant, including working for the Carnegie Commission, the City of San
    Francisco, and the Federal Reserve, as well as several Departments of the U.S.
    Government–Energy, Treasury, Justice, and Commerce. He has testified as an ex-
    pert witness on statistics in a number of law cases, including Piva v. Xerox (em-
    ployment discrimination), Garza v. County of Los Angeles (voting rights), and New
    York v. Department of Commerce (census adjustment).
    Lastly, he is an exceptionally good writer and teacher, and his many books and
    review articles are arguably his most important contribution to our subject. His
    widely used elementary text Statistics, written with R. Pisani and R. Purves, now
    in its 4th edition, is rightly regarded as a classic introductory exposition, while his
    second text Statistical Models (2005) is set to become just as successful in its field.
    The roles of theoretical researcher, consultant, and expositor are not disjoint
    aspects of David’s personality, but fully integrated ones. For over 20 years now, he
    has been writing extensively on statistical modeling. He has contributed to theory,
    and prepared illuminating expositions and given penetrating critiques of old and
    new models and methods in a wide range of contexts. The result is a quite remark-
    able body of research on the theory and application of statistics, particularly to the
    decennial U.S. census, the social sciences (especially econometrics, political science
    and the law), and epidemiology. These themes are reflected in this volume of papers
    by friends and colleagues of David’s. We’d like to thank him for his wonderful body
    of work, and to wish him well for the future.

    Deborah Nolan
    Terry Speed

    v
    Contributors to this volume
    Bengtsson, T., Bell Labs
    Berk, R., University of California, Los Angeles
    Bhamidi, S., University of California, Berkeley
    Bickel, P., University of California, Berkeley
    Brillinger, D. R., University of California, Berkeley
    Brown, L., University of Pennsylvania

    Chen, W., Kaiser Permanente Southern California

    Diaconis, P., Stanford University


    Dudoit, S., University of California, Berkeley

    Eaton, M. L., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis


    Evans, S. N., University of California, Berkeley

    Gnedin, A., Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht

    Holmes, S., Stanford University


    Humphreys, P., University of Virginia

    James, N., Berkeley, California

    Kaye, D. H., Arizona State University


    Keleş, S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Klein, S. P., GANSK & Associates
    Kriegler, B., University of California, Los Angeles

    Lehmann, E. L., University of California, Berkeley


    Li, B., Tsinghua University
    Li, L., Harvard School of Public Health
    Littnan, C. L., Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
    Luen, B., University of California, Berkeley
    Lyons, R., Indiana University

    Peled, R., University of California, Berkeley


    Peres, Y., University of California, Berkeley, and Microsoft Research
    Petitti, D. B., University of Southern California
    Pitman, J., University of California, Berkeley

    Ralph, P., University of California, Berkeley


    Robins, J., Harvard School of Public Health

    Salzman, J., Stanford University


    Stark, P. B., University of California, Berkeley
    Stewart, B. S., Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute

    Tchetgen, E., Harvard School of Public Health


    vi
    Contributors to this volume vii

    van der Laan, M. J., University of California, Berkeley


    van der Vaart, A., Vrije Universiteit

    Wachter, K., University of California, Berkeley

    Ylvisaker, D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Zhao, Z., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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