Statistics and its Applications: Platinum Jubilee Conference, Kolkata, India, December 2016

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This book discusses recent developments and the latest research in statistics and its applications, primarily in agriculture and industry, survey sampling and biostatistics, gathering articles on a wide variety of topics. Written by leading academics, scientists, researchers and scholars from around the globe to mark the platinum jubilee of the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta in 2016, the book is a valuable resource for statisticians, aspiring researchers and professionals across educational levels and disciplines. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Fragmentation of Young Massive Clusters: A Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulation Study (Abisa Sinha)....Pages 1-14 A Study on DNA Sequence of Rice Using Scoring Matrix Method and ANOVA Technique (Anamika Dutta, Kishore K. Das)....Pages 15-23 Regressions Involving Circular Variables: An Overview (Sungsu Kim, Ashis SenGupta)....Pages 25-33 On Construction of Prediction Interval for Weibull Distribution (Ramesh M. Mirajkar, Bhausaheb G. Kore)....Pages 35-45 Combining High-Dimensional Classification and Multiple Hypotheses Testing For the Analysis of Big Data in Genetics (Thorsten Dickhaus)....Pages 47-50 The Quantile-Based Skew Logistic Distribution with Applications (Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty, Dreamlee Sharma)....Pages 51-73 A Note on Monte-Carlo Jackknife: McJack and Big Data (Jiming Jiang)....Pages 75-77 A Review of Exoplanets Detection Methods (G. Jogesh Babu)....Pages 79-87 A Connection Between the Observed Best Prediction and the Fence Model Selection Method (Thuan Nguyen, Jiming Jiang)....Pages 89-94 A New Approximation to the True Randomization-Based Design Effect (Siegfried Gabler, Matthias Ganninger, Partha Lahiri)....Pages 95-110 Confounded Factorial Design with Partial Balance and Orthogonal Sub-Factorial Structure (Madhura Mandal, Premadhis Das)....Pages 111-131 Beyond the Bayes Factor, A New Bayesian Paradigm for Handling Hypothesis Testing (Christian P. Robert)....Pages 133-137 No Calculation When Observation Can Be Made (Tommy Wright)....Pages 139-154 Design Weighted Quadratic Inference Function Estimators of Superpopulation Parameters (Sumanta Adhya, Debanjan Bhattacharjee, Tathagata Banerjee)....Pages 155-161 Detecting a Fake Coin of a Known Type (Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Bikas K. Sinha)....Pages 163-180