Statistics Section

Special Section: Statistical Training and Curricular Revision What Is Statistics?

The growth in demand for data analysis may be attributed in large part to the exponential increase in computing power and data collection capabilities. At the same time, there is a worrisome tendency for quantitative investigators or technical staff to attack problems using blunt instruments and naive attitudes. Our discipline as a whole has been gloriously productive, making available a wide v...

Special Section on Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

With the possible exception of gambling, meteorology, particularly precipitation forecasting, may be the area with which the general public is most familiar with probabilistic assessments of uncertainty. Despite the heavy use of stochastic models and statistical methods in weather forecasting and other areas of the atmospheric sciences, papers in these areas have traditionally been somewhat unc...

Editorial: Teaching Statistics: Announcing a new section of Model Assisted Statistics and Applications

Most of you are aware that the 4th issue of the 2009 MASA volume constituted a special issue on teaching statistics. You are invited to visit the journal’s web page and download the whole issue, because the IOS Press decided to make it free for all its readers to experience what the new section could cover. Nonetheless, treat what you will find there as only a sample of possible topics. What es...

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This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...