Selected Works of David Brillinger
This volume contains 30 of David Brillinger's most influential papers. He is an eminent statistical scientist, having published broadly in time series and point process analysis, seismology, neurophysiology, and population biology. Each of these areas are
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Peter Guttorp • David Brillinger Editors
Selected Works of David Brillinger
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Editors Peter Guttorp University of Washington Seattle, U S A [email protected] and Norwegian Computing Center 114 Blindern, Oslo Norway [email protected]
David Brillinger Department of Statistics University of California Berkeley, CA, U S A [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1343-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1344-8 D O I 10.1007/978-1-4614-1344-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg L o n d o n Library of Congress Control Number: 2011942481 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface to the Series
Springer's Selected Works in Probability and Statistics series offers scientists and scholars the opportunity of assembling and commenting upon major classical works in statistics, and honors the work of distinguished scholars in probability and statistics. Each volume contains the original papers, original commentary by experts on the subject's papers, and relevant biographies and bibliographies. Springer is committed to maintaining the volumes in the series with free access of SpringerLink, as well as to the distribution of print volumes. The full text of the volumes is available on SpringerLink with the exception of a small number of articles for which links to their original publisher are included instead. These publishers have graciously agreed to make the articles freely available on their websites. The goal is maximum dissemination of this material. The subjects of the volumes have been selected by an editorial board consisting of Anirban DasGupta, Peter Hall, Jim Pitman, Michael Sorensen, and Jon Wellner.
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Preface
When I was asked to put together a Selected Works volume for David Brillinger, I never even considered saying no. But I realized that the hardest part of the job would be to convince David to let me do it. "The question that I keep asking myself is 'Is that really me?'" he wrote to me. But eventually he relented, when I argued that this would make some of his interesting papers, that are now hard to find, available to everyone. He started sending me thick envelopes full of papers. Going through all of them was pure joy. Th
