Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work

Section I: Applications in the Physical Sciences.- Recent Directional Distributions with Applications.- Size Distribution of Suspended Particles — Unimodality, Symmetry and Lognormality.- Offshore Oil/Gas Lease Bidding and the Weibull Distribution.- Statistical Distributions Occurring in Photoelectron Phenomena, Radar and Infrared Applications.- Application of Discrete Distributions for Estimating the Number of Organic Compounds in Water.- Some Bivariate Probability Models Applicable to Traffic Accidents and Fatalities.- Role and Use of Statistical Distributions in Information Theory as Applied to Chemical Analysis.- Section II: Applications in the Social Sciences.- Modeling the Distribution of Fingerprint Characteristics.- Stochastic Modeling in Political Science Research.- Statistical Distribution Models in the Behavioral Sciences: A Review of Theory and Applications.- Some Issues Associated with the Measurement of Income Inequality.- Lorenz Ordering Within the Generalized Gamma Family of Income Distributions.- The Choice of a Distribution to Describe Personal Incomes.- Relationships Between Income Distributions for Individuals and for Households.- Section III: Applications in the Life Sciences.- Spike Interval Distributions for Neurons and Random Walks with Drift to a Fluctuating Threshold.- Probability Distributions Arising from the Ascertainment and the Analysis of Data on Human Families and Other Groups.- A Stochastic Model for the Study of the Distribution of Chromosome Aberrations in Human and Animal Cells Exposed to Radiation or Chemicals.- A Model for the Analysis of Platelet Survival.- Extinction and Waiting Times in Birth-Death Processes: Applications to Endangered Species and Insect Pest Control.- The Poisson Lognormal Distribution and its Use as a Model of Plankton Aggregation.- Some Applications of Statistical Distribution Theory to Biology and Medicine.- Section IV: Extreme Values and Order Statistics.- Extreme Value Theory with Application to Hydrology.- Properties of Extreme Order Statistics and Their Application to Fire Losses and Earthquake Magnitudes.- Statistical Choice of Univariate Extreme Models.- An i-Dimensional Limiting Distribution Function of Largest Values and its Relevance to the Statistical Theory of Extremes.- Waiting Times and Return Periods to Exceed the Maximum of a Previous Sample.- Waiting Times and Return Periods Related to Order Statistics: An Application of Urn Models.- Author Index.