Development Of Modern Statistics And Related Topics: In Celebration Of Prof Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday (series In Biostatistics)

Series in Biostatistics Vol.1 Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics In Celebration of Prof Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday Heping Zhang ian Huang World Scientific Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics This page is intentionally left blank Series in Biostatistics Vol.1 Development of Modern Statistics and Related Topics In Celebration of Prof Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday edited by Heping Zhang Yale University School of Medicine, USA Jian Huang University of Iowa, USA V f e World Scientific wb NewJersev New Jersey • London • Si, Singapore • Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: Suite 202,1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN STATISTICS AND RELATED TOPICS: In Celebration of Professor Yaoting Zhang's 70th Birthday Copyright © 2003 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-238-395-6 Printed in Singapore. Preface This proceedings is dedicated to Professor Yaoting Zhang in celebration of his 70th birthday in November 2003. Professor Zhang is an internationally renowned statistician and a Chinese pioneer in the statistical development, applications, and education. During the Fifth International Chinese Statistical Association Conference held in Hong Kong, August 17-19, 2001, Professor Zhang reunited with many of his friends and former students inside and outside China. The idea for this proceedings was conceived on this unforgettable occasion. Inside this proceedings, Dr. Yao and Dr. Li present their interview article with Professor Zhang. In their article, they highlight Professor Zhang's career as a scientist and teacher, and his influence in many fields outside statistics including finance and geology. He is one of the statisticians in China who played a pivotal role in rebuilding statistics as a research discipline after the Culture Revolution. He has trained and inspired several generations of Chinese statisticians. This monograph includes two special invited papers and nineteen invited papers from Professor Zhang's friends and former students. The special invited paper by D. Siegmund and B. Yakir discusses approximation to the distribution of the maximum of certain Gaussian processes. The need for such approximation arises from multi-point lin