Pranab Kumar Sen | University North Carolina Chapel Hill/USA - Estados Unidos

• Grant number: 06/01844-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: July 18, 2006
• End date: August 02, 2006
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Probability and Statistics - Statistics
• Principal Investigator: Julio da Motta Singer
• Grantee: Julio da Motta Singer
• Visiting researcher: Pranab Kumar Sen
• Visiting researcher institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

1. Revision of chapters 1-3 and work on the details chapters 4 and 5 and review of the old chapters of the book "Large Sample Statistical Theory: Finite Sample Motivation and Applications" to be published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) (joint work with Julio M. Singer e Antonio C. P. Lima); 2. Discussion and incorporation of the reviewers suggestions to the paper "Estimation of the Mean Quality Adjusted Survival using a Multistate Model for the Sojourn Times", submitted to the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (in collaboration with Antonio C. P. Lima e Gisela T. Silva); discussion of the final details of another paper on generalizations of the model considered in the previous paper and submission to an international journal; 3. Development of non-parametric methods for tests on variance components (in collaboration with Julio M. Singer e Juvêncio S. Nobre); 4. Participation in the 17th SINAPE (Brazilian Statistical Meeting) with the presentation of a conference and an invited talk. (AU)