Statistics and its Applications [electronic resource] : Platinum Jubilee Conference, Kolkata, India, December 2016 / edited by Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay.

Chapter 1. Abisa Sinha, Fragmentation of Young Massive Clusters: A Hybrid Monte–Carlo Simulation Study -- Chapter 2. Anamika Dutta and Kishore K. Das, A Study on DNA Sequence of Rice using Scoring Matrix Method and ANOVA Technique -- Chapter 3. Sungsu Kim and Ashis SenGupta, Regressions Involving Circular Variables: An Overview -- Chapter 4. Ramesh M. Mirajkar and Bhausaheb G. Kore, On Construction of Prediction Interval for Weibull Distribution -- Chapter 5. Thorsten Dickhaus, Combining high-Dimensional Classification and Multiple Hypotheses Testing for the Analysis of Big Data in Genetics -- Chapter 6. Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty and Dreamlee Sharma, The Quantile-based Skew Logistic Distribution with Applications -- Chapter 7. Jiming Jiang, A Note on Monte–Carlo Jackknife: McJack and Big Data -- Chapter 8. Jogesh Babu, Introduction to the Detection and Statistical Challenges of Exoplanets -- Chapter 9. Thuan Nguyen and Jiming Jiang, A Connection between the Observed Best Prediction and the Fence Model Selection Method -- Chapter 10. Siegfried Gabler, Matthias Ganninger and Partha Lahiri, A New Approximation to the True Randomization-Based Design Effect -- Chapter 11. Madhura Mandal and Premadhis Das, Confounded Factorial Design with Partial Balance and Orthogonal Sub- Factorial Structure -- Chapter 12. Christian P. Robert, Beyond the Bayes Factor, a New Bayesian Paradigm for Handling Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 13. Tommy Wright, No Calculation when Observation Can be Made -- Chapter 14. Sumanta Adhya, Debanjan Bhattacharjee and Tathagata Banerjee, Design Weighted Quadratic Inference Function Estimators for Superpopulation Parameters -- Chapter 15. Jyotirmoy Sarkar and Bikas K. Sinha, Detecting a Fake Coin of a Known Type.

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.