scientific article; zbMATH DE number 193483
bibliographyconcepts of multivariate unimodalitydependenceordering of distributions by peaknessreliability theorystatistical inferenceunimodalityunimodality for discrete distributionsunimodality of infinitely divisible distributions
Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05)
This monograph is the first to look carefully at the notion of unimodality as it appears in probability and statistics. It attempts to meet the need for a comprehensive and straightforward account of the notions and tools of unimodality available in the present-day literature. Emphasis is placed on convexity which cements all material of this book. The text is divided into nine chapters and an appendix. Chapter 1 brings together basic results involving univariate unimodal distributions. Different concepts of multivariate unimodality are discussed in Chapter 2. The results of Chapter 2 are supplemented and generalized in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 is devoted to unimodality for discrete distributions (on \({\mathbb{Z}})\). Chapter 5 is concerned with unimodality of infinitely divisible distributions; emphasis is on the univariate case, the multivariate being discussed at the end of the chapter. The last four chapters intend to show the reader several applications of unimodality: unimodality and notions of dependence (Chapter 6), ordering of distributions by peakness (Chapter 7), unimodality in statistical inference (Chapter 8), convexity in reliability theory (Chapter 9). An appendix gathers some basic material on convexity. A large bibliography accompanies the text. This is a research monograph which has been written to give a probabilist and/or statistician the capability to make use of many of the ideas of unimodality. It also provides a useful text for a graduate-level course on selected topics in probability. The authors have made a real attempt to show their readers how exciting this subject is; and they have succeeded.
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