Constance van Eeden's Home Page
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Name: Constance van Eeden
Date of birth: 6 April 1927
Place of birth: Delft, The Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
MY DEGREES and POSITIONS
MY RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main research interests are in the areas of
estimation in restricted parameter spaces, decision theory,
nonparametrics and selection procedures.
MY MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
American Statistical Association
International Statistical Institute
Canadian Mathematical Society
Statistical Society of Canada
Vereniging voor Statistiek
Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
The Association for Women in Mathematics
Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap
HONOURS BESTOWED ON ME
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1973)
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1973)
Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (1978)
Professeur Emerite, Universite de Montreal (1989)
1990 Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada with the
following citation:
"To Professor Constance van Eeden for her achievements in statistics,
particularly in the area of non-parametrics, for her leadership in the
development of graduate programs in statistics and for her countless
contributions to statistical activities"
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Montreal created in 1998 the ``Prix Constance van Eeden" in recognition of her contributions to the development of statistics at that university. The prize is awarded, on an annual basis, to their best BSc graduating student in statistics or actuarial science.
The ``Henri Willem Methorst Medal" bestowed by the International Statistical Institute on Constance van Eeden in recognition of outstanding and significant services rendered (13 August 1999).
The ISI Service Certificate recognizing the contributions made to the International Statistical Institute by Constance van Eeden (13 August 2003).
Honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada
bestowed at the June, 2011, SSC meeting in Wolfville, Nova Scotia
with the citation:
"To Constance van Eeden, for fundamental and pioneering work in
nonparametric
statistics and estimation in restricted parameter spaces; for her
high standards in
research, in particular numerous editorial contributions in Canada
and elsewhere;
for generously mentoring and inspiring many generations of
statisticians"
GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO OBTAINED THEIR PHD UNDER MY
SUPERVISION with the year in which they obtained their degree.
(Hard copies of these students' PhD theses are in the
bookcase in my computer room)
Marc Moore 1971
Yves Lepage 1972
Denis Labelle 1974
Louise Dionne 1975
Serge Tardif 1978 (Pierre Robillard Award winner) (deceased26-09-1998)
Alain Boulanger 1979
Alec Charras 1980
Robert Dufour 1982, (jointly with Urs Maag)
Layachi Baghagha 1983
Dominique Colin 1984, (deceased 30-5-1990)
Sorana Froda 1984
Jean Meloche 1989
Denis Larocque 1997 (co-director with Serge Tardif as director)
Xiaogang Wang, 2001 (co-director with James V. Zidek as director)
GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO OBTAINED THEIR MSC UNDER MY
SUPERVISION
with the year in which they obtained their degree.
(Hard copies of these students' MSc theses are in the bookcase in
my computer room)
Michel Panneton 1967 - Louis-Paul Rivest 1976
Yves Lepage 1967 -Francoise Tarte 1976
Denis Labelle 1970 - Jean-Pierre Belisle 1978
Louise Dionne 1970 - Lise Gauthier-Hould 1979
Janet Chinfatt 1971 - Robert Bilongo 1979
Jean-Luc Pinel 1972 - Layachi Baghagha 1980
Raymond Gravel 1972 - Sophie Mahsrerdjian 1980 (jointly with Jean-Marie Dufour)
Serge Tardif 1973 (deceased 26-09-1998) - Helene DesParois 1984
Sabine Heider 1974 - Alexandre Lyambabaje 1985
Serge Cournoyer 1975
COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF
Committee on Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1973-1976
Council, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1977-1980
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Grant Selection
Committee (Statistics) 1978-1981
Board of Directors, Canadian Mathematical Society 1981-1983
Comite d'organisation scientifique, Congres annuel,
Societe Statistique
du Canada 1987
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
International
Fellowships Selection Committee 1990
SSC Special Awards Committee 1990-1991
Noether Award Committee 2001-2003 and 2004-2006
EDITORIAL BOARDS I AM OR WAS A MEMBER OF
ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF
Annals of Statistics 1974-1977
Canadian Journal of Statistics 1980-1994
Annales des Sciences Mathematiques du Quebec 1986-1998
EDITOR OF
Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts 1990-2004
REGIONAL EDITOR, FOR CANADA AND THE US, OF
Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts 1994-2004.
REVIEWER FOR
Mathematical Reviews 2006-
MY PUBLICATIONS
In this list of publications "h" reps. "pdf" stands for "there is
a hard copy (reps. a "pdf" file) of this publication in some file
folder at home resp. in my Mac at home or among my files at UBC.
A. BOOKS
1. A nonparametric introduction to statistics (with C.H. Kraft). The Macmillan Company, 1968, 342 pages, h.
2. The scientific family tree of David van Dantzig. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000, 87 pages, h.
3. Restricted-parameter-space Estimation Problems -
Admissibility and Minimaxity Properties. Springer, Lecture Notes
in Statistics, x, 168 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-387-33747-4, h and pdf.
B. ARTICLES (*= in Dutch)
1. C. van Eeden, The nutritive value of butterfat, compared with that of vegetable fats, II. Statistical Analysis, Proceedings, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series C, 1952, 605-616, h and pdf.
Also: Reports S 63/51* and S63a/51*, Department of Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
These publications contain a description, as well as the results, of a statistical analysis of the data described in "The nutritive value of butterfat , compared with that of vegetable fats, I", by C. Nieman, E.H. Groot en B.C.P. Jansen, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, C, 1952, 587-604, h.
2.* C. van Eeden, Methods for comparing, testing and
estimating unknown probabilities, Statistica Neerlandica, 1953,
141-162, h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 45/53, repository id: 8338, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1953, h.
3. C. van Eeden, A sequential test with three possible decisions for comparing two unknown probabilities, based on groups of observations, Revue de l'Institut Internationale de Statistique, 1955, 20-28, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP 134/54/R* repository id: 8236, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1954, h.
4. C. van Eeden and J. Hemelrijk, A test for the equality of probabilities against a class of specified alternative hypotheses, including trend, Proceedings, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen A, 1955, 191-198 and 301-308, Indagationes Mathematicae, 1955, 191-198 and 301-308, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP 39/55/R, repository id: 8230, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, 1955, h.
5.* C. van Eeden, A test against trend for
probabilities, Statistica Neerlandica, 1955, 131-159; h and pdf.
Also: a version of Report SP 44/55/R, repository id: 8225, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, 1955.
6. C. van Eeden, Maximum likelihood estimation of
partially or completely ordered probabilities, Het Verzekerings
Archief, 1958, 1-12, h and pdf.
Also: Report S 220/56/R, repository id: 8660, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam The Netherlands,
7. C. van Eeden, Maximum likelihood estimation of ordered probabilities, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen A, 1956, 444-455 and Indagationes Mathematicae, 1956, 444-455, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP50/56/R, repository id: 8218, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
8.* Distribution-free two-sample tests and the method
of the 2x2 table, Statistica Neerlandica, 1956, 157-162, h and
pdf.
Also: Report SM 67/55, repository id: 8322, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam The Netherlands,
9. C. van Eeden and A. Benard, A general class of distribution-free tests for symmetry, containing the tests of Wilcoxon and Fisher, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen A, 1957, 381-408 and Indagationes Mathematicae, 1957, 381-408, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP 54/57/R, repository id: 8214, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
10. C. van Eeden, Maximum likelihood estimation of partially or completely ordered parameters, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, A, 1957, 128-136 and 201-211 and Indagationes Mathematicae, 1957, 128-136 and 210-211, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP 52/57/R, 1957, repository id: 8216 and Report S 207/56, 1956, repository id: 8670, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
11. C. van Eeden, Note on two methods for estimating ordered parameters of probability distributions, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen A, 1957, 506-512, h and pdf.
Also: Report SP 55/57/R, repository id: 8213, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1957.
12. C. van Eeden, A least-squares inequality for maximum likelihood estimates of ordered parameters, Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen A, 1957, 513-521 and Indagationes Mathematicae, 1957, 513-521, h and pdf.
Also: Report 60/57/R, repository id 8207, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1957.
13.* A. Benard, C. van Eeden and C.L. Rumke,
Wilcoxon's test for symmetry, Statistica Neerlandica, 1957,
231-235, h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 76a/57/R, repository id : 8301, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1957.
14. C. van Eeden, Testing and estimating ordered
parameters of probability distributions, Ph.D. Thesis, 1958, 123
pages, h. A review (by Professor Dr. Jan Hemelrijk) of this thesis
can be found in Statistica Neerlandica,
1958, 175-176. A pdf version of this review is among the pdfs of
my publications.
15. C. van Eeden and C.L.Rumke, Wilcoxon's two-sample
test, Statistica Neerlandica, 1958, 275-280, h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 87a/58/R, repository id: 8289, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1958.
16. C. van Eeden, A class of tests for the hypothesis that k parameters theta_{1}, . . ., theta_{k} satisfy the inequalities theta_{1} \leq . . . \leq theta_{k}, Bulletin de l'Institut Internationale de Statistique, 1960, 331-338, h and pdf.
Also: Report 65/60/R, repository id: 8200, Department of Mathematical Statistics, 1960 and Report Nr.19/58, Department of Pure Mathematics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1958.
17.
J. Th. Runnenburg and C. van Eeden, Conditional limit
distributions for the entries in a 2x2 table, Statistica
Neerlandica, 1960, 111-126, h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 80a/60/R, repository id: 8296, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1960.
18.* A.R. Bloemena and C. van Eeden, On probability
distributions arising from points on a lattice, Statistica
Neerlandica, 1960, 26-31. Appendix to: "Een Monte-Carlo- bepaling
van overschrijdingskansen, in verband met een keuze toets" by
C.A.G. Nass, p. 19-26, h and pdf.
Also: Report S257/59, repository id: 8626, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1959.
19.* C. van Eeden, On finding a confidence region for
the coefficient of variation of a normal distribution, Statistica
Neerlandica, 1960, 151-154, h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 82/59/R, repository id: 8294, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1959.
20.* C. van Eeden, A graphical method for computing
the test statistic of Kendall's rank correlation test, Statistica
Neerlandica, 1960, 157-160, h and pdf.
Also, Report S 267/60/R, repository id: 8620, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1960.
21. C.L. Rumke and C. van Eeden, A k-sample trend test, Statistica Neerlandica, 1961, 25-20; h and pdf.
Also: Report SM 88/61/R, repository id: 8287, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1961.
22. C. van Eeden, Some approximations to the percentage points of the noncentral t-distribution, Revue de l'Institut Internationale de Statistique, 1961, 4-13, h and pdf.
Also: Preprint 8638 and Report S 242, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, repository id: 15502, Amsterdam, 1959.
23. C. van Eeden, The relation between Pitman's asymptotic relative efficiency of two tests and the correlation coefficient between their test statistics, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1963, 1442-1451, h and pdf.
24. C. van Eeden, Note on the consistency of some distribution-free tests for dispersion, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1964, 105-119, h and pdf.
25. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Bayesian bioassay, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1964, 886-890, h and pdf.
26. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, A fluctuation theorem and a distribution-free test, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1964, 1359-1360, h and pdf.
27. N. Buckle, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, An approximation to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney distribution, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1969, 591-599, h and pdf.
28. C. van Eeden, Efficiency-robust estimation of location, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1970, 172-181, h and pdf.
29. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Efficient linearized estimates based on ranks, Nonparametric Techniques in Statistical Inference, Cambridge University Press, 1970, 267-273, h and pdf.
30. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Asymptotic efficiencies of quick methods of computing estimates based on ranks, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1972, 199-202, h and pdf.
31. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Linearized rank estimates and signed-rank estimates for the general linear hypothesis, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1972, 42-57, h and pdf.
32. I. Olkin, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Estimation and testing for differences in magnitude or displacement in the mean vectors of two multivariate normal populations, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1972, 455-467, h and pdf.
33. C. van Eeden, An analogue, for signed-rank statistics, of Jureckova's asymptotic linearity theorem for rank statistics, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1972, 791-802, h and pdf.
34. R. Gravel and C. van Eeden, Best linear unbiased
estimators of the location of a double quadratic distribution
based on order statistics, Journal of Statistical Computation and
Simulation, 1981, 225-243, h and pdf.
35. C.H. Kraft, Y. Lepage and C. van Eeden, Some finite-sample-size properties of Rosenblatt density estimates, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 1983, 95-104, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 81-17, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1981, h.
36. C. van Eeden, On the asymptotic relation between L-estimators and M-estimators and their asymptotic efficiency relative to the Cramer-Rao bound, Annals of Statistics, 1983, 674-690, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 82-28, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1982, h.
37. A. Boulanger and C. van Eeden, Uniform asymptotic linearity of a process based on a signed-rank statistic, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 1983, 285-292, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 80-8, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1980, h.
38. A. Boulanger and C. van Eeden, Estimators of location based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 1983, 293-303, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 82-20, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1982, h.
39. R. Dufour, U. Maag and C. van Eeden, Correcting a proof of a characterization of the exponential distribution, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 1984, 238-241, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 82-37, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, 1982, Canada, 1982, h.
40. C.H. Kraft, Y. Lepage and C. van Eeden, Estimation of a symmetric density function, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 1985, 273-288, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 82-4, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1982.
41. C. van Eeden, Mean integrated squared error of kernel estimators when the density and its derivative are not necessarily continuous, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 1985, 461-472, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 82-7, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1982, h and Report R 8414, repository id: 6430, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, 1984, h.
42. A. Lyambabaje, S. Tardif and C. van Eeden, A comparison of several estimators of the center of a symmetric distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 1990, 19-30, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 88-15, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1988, h.
43. A. Charras and C. van Eeden, Bayes- and admissibility properties of estimators in truncated parameters spaces, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 1991, 121-134, h and pdf.
Also: Rapport de recherche 88-19, Departement de mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1988, h.
44. A. Charras and C. van Eeden, Limits of Bayes estimators in convex, truncated parameter spaces, Statistics and Probability Letters, 11, 1991, 479-483, h and pdf.
Also: a version of Technical Report 80, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1989, h and Rapport de recherche, 99, Departement de mathematiques et d'informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1989, h.
45. C. van Eeden, On a conjecture concerning a characterization of the exponential distribution, Invited contribution to CWI Quarterly, 1991, 205-211, h and pdf.
46. A. Charras and C. van Eeden, Bayes properties of estimators of location in truncated parameter spaces, Statistics and Decisions, 10, 1992, 81-86, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 81, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1989, h and Rapport de recherche, ??, Department de mathematiques et d'informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1989.
47. J. Leslie and C. van Eeden, On a characterization of the exponential distribution based on a type 2 right censored sample, Annals of Statistics, 21, 1993, 1640-1647, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 107, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1991, h, Report BS-R 9117, Department of Operations Research, Statistics and Systems Theory, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, h and Rapport de recherche, 154, Department de mathematiques et d'informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1989.
48. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Group Bayes estimation of the exponential mean: a retrospective view of the Wald theory, Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics V (S.S. Gupta and J.0. Berger, eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1994, 35-49, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 119, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1992, h.
49. A. Charras and C. van Eeden, Inadmissibility for squared error loss when the parameter to be estimated is restricted to the interval [a, infty), Statistics and Decisions, 12, 1994, 257-266, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 114, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1992, h and Rapport de recherche, 178, Department de mathematique et d'informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 1992, h.
50. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Group-Bayes estimation of the exponential mean: A preposterior analysis, Test, 3, 1994, 125-143, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 120, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1991, h. Corrections to this paper are published in Test, 3, 1994, 247-247.
51. C. van Eeden, Minimax estimation of a lower-bounded scale parameter of a gamma distribution for scale-invariant squared-error loss, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 23, 1995, 245-256, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 142, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1994, h.
52. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, On using a loss function in selecting the best of two gamma populations in terms of their scale parameters, Statistics, 28, 1996, 355-370, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 153, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1995, h and Memorandum COSOR 95-26, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1995, h.
53. C. van Eeden, Estimation in restricted parameter spaces. Some history and some recent developments. CWI Quarterly, 9, 1996, 69-76, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 163, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1996.
54. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, On selecting the best of two normal populations using a loss function, Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, 7, 1998, 159-170, h and pdf.
Also: Memorandum COSOR 97-13, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1997, h. This Memorandum is a revised version of Memorandum COSOR 95-14, 1995, which is a revised version of Memorandum COSOR 93-??, 1993, h.
55. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Minimax estimation of a bounded scale parameter for scale-invariant squared-error loss, Statistics and Decisions, 17, 1999, 1-30, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 169, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1996, h. Correction note: Statistics and Decision , 20, 2002.
56. S. Froda and C. van Eeden, A uniform saddlepoint expansion for the null-distribution of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic, Canadian Journal of Statistics, 28, 2000, 137-149, h and pdf.
Also: "Exact saddlepoint expansion for the null-distribution of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic", Technical Report 141, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, 1994, h and pdf and Rapport de recherche, 233, Department de mathematiques et d' informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1994, h.
57. D. Laroque, S. Tardif and C. van Eeden, Bivariate sign tests based on the sup, L_{1} and L_{2} norms, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematic, 52, 2000, 488-506, h and pdf.
58. C. van Eeden, Minimax estimation of a lower-bounded scale parameter of an F distribution, Statistics and Probability Letter, 46, 2000, 283-286, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 180, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1997, h.
59. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, Sample size and the accuracy of a consistent estimator, The Mathematical Scientist, 25, 2000, 105-109. h and pdf.
Also: Memorandum COSOR 99-05, 1999, h and SPOR Report 2000-01, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2000 and Report 99-007, European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Operations Research and their Applications (Eurandom), 1999.
60. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Estimating one of two normal means when their difference is bounded, Statistics and Probability Letters, 51, 2001, 277-284, h and pdf. Correction note: Statistics and Probability Letters, 57, 2002, 111.
Also: Also: Technical Report 196, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1997.
61. S. Froda and C. van Eeden, A uniform bound on the characteristic function of the exponentially tilted null-distribution of a simple linear rank statistic and its rate of convergence, Statistics and Probability Letters, 54, 2001, 107-112, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 181, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1998, h and Rapport de recherche 260, Department de mathematiques et d' informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1999, h.
62. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Combining sample information in estimating ordered normal means. Sankhya A, Special issue in memory of D. Basu, 64, 2002, 588-610, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 182, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1998, h.
63. D. Laroque, S. Tardif and C. van Eeden, Affine-invariant rank tests for the bivariate one-way layout and for simple regression models, Statistics, 37, 2003, 33-50, h and pdf.
64. D. Laroque, S. Tardif and C. van Eeden, An affine-invariant generalization of the Wilcoxon signed-rank test for the bivariate location problem, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 45, 2003, 153-165, h and pdf.
Also: Publication CST-2002-15, Centre de recherche sur les transport, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, h.
65. J.V. Zidek and C. van Eeden, Uncertainty, entropy and partial information. Mathematical Statistics and Applications: Festschrift for Constance van Eeden. Editors: Marc Moore, Sorana Froda and Christian Leger. IMS Lecture Notes and Monograph Series, Volume 42, 2003, 155-167, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 206, 2003, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
66. Xiaogang Wang, C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Asymptotic properties of maximum weighted likelihood estimators, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 119, 2003, 37-54, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 201, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2002.
67. R. Bean, S. Froda and C. van Eeden, The normal, Edgeworth, saddlepoint and uniform approximations to the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney null-distribution: a numerical comparison, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 16, 2004, 279-288, h and pdf.
68. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Combining the data from two normal populations to estimate the mean of one of them when their mean difference is bounded, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 88, 2004, 19-46, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 196, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2000.
69. S. Tardif, F. Bellavance and C. van Eeden, A nonparametric procedure for the analysis of crossover designs. The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 33, 2005, 471-488, h and pdf.
Also: Les Cahiers du GERARD, G-2002-38, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, h.
70. Y. Dou and C. van Eeden, Comparisons of the performances of estimators of a bounded normal mean under squared-error loss, REV STAT Statistical Journal, 7, 2009, 203-226, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 223, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2006.
71. J. Chen, C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Uncertainty and the conditional variance. Statistics and Probability Letters, 80, 2010, 1764-1770, h and pdf.
Also: Technical Report 255, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 2010.
72. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Multi-agent
estimators of an exponential mean. In: Contemporary Developments
in Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Decision Theory: A
Festschrift for William E. Strawderman, IMS Collections, Vol. 8,
131-153, 2012; h and pdf.
73. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Subset selection -
extended Rizvi-Sobel for unequal sample sizes and its
implementation, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 24, 2012,
299-315; h and pdf. A version of Technical Report 263 with the
title ``Subset selection - extending Rizvi-Sobel", Department of
Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,
Canada, 2011; h and pdf.
C. LECTURE NOTES, COURSE NOTES, UNPUBLISHED TECHNICAL REPORTS, MANUSCRIPTS, TABLES OF DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, APPENDICES TO PHD THESES AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
1. A. Benard and C. van Eeden, Statistical analysis of an Epidemiological Investigation of Tuberculosis in Indonesia, Report S 109/53, repository id: 8755, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, h. Appendix to: ``Tuberculosis, an Epidemiological Investigation in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia", PhD thesis by H.E, Driessen, 1953.
2*. C. van Eeden and D. Wabeke, Handleiding voor de toets van Wilcoxon, Report S 176/M65, repository id: 8314, 1955 and Report SW 4/70, repository id: 8115, 1970, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, h.
3* C. van Eeden and D. Wabeke, Handleiding voor de toets van Wilcoxon, exacte behandeling als er gelijke waarnemingen zijn, Report S 176/M 65A, repository id: 8314, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1955, h.
4*. A. Benard and C. van Eeden, Handleiding voor de symmetrie toets van Wilcoxon, Report S208(M76), Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1956, h.
5. A. Benard and C. van Eeden, General theorems on Wilcoxon's test for symmetry: Preliminary report S209/56, repository id: 8669, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1956.
6*. C. van Eeden, Statistische analyse van een onderzoek over fluxus bij bevallingen, Rapport S 123, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam. Appendix to: ``Bloedingen na de bevalling in oorlogstijd", PhD thesis by J.H.A. de Leeuw, 1957.
7*. C. van Eeden, Het maximaliseren van een functie in een zeker convex gebied. Report ZW 9/58, repository id: 7203, Department of Pure Mathematics, 1958 and Report S 234/58, repository id: 8647, Department of Mathematical Statistics, 1958, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam.
8. A.R. Bloemena and C. van Eeden, Some remarks on k. Mather's test for heterogeneity, Report S 252/59, repository id: 8629, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1959.
9*. A.R. Bloemena and C. van Eeden, Statistische analyse van waarnemingen betreffende petunia-kruisingen, Report S 244/59, repository id: 8636, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1959. Appendix to the PhD thesis of F. Bianchi, 1959.
10*. C. van Eeden, Enige opmerkingen over het best friend probleem. Report S 276/60, repository id: 8610, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematische Centrum, 1960.
11. C. van Eeden, G.T. Heistad and C.H. Kraft, An application of multivariate analysis to some tranquilizer experiments, Technical Report Nr 32, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 1963; h. See also: I. Olkin, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Estimation and testing for differences in magnitude or displacement in the mean vectors of two multivariate normal populations, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1972, 455-467, h and pdf.
12. N. Buckle, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Tables prolongees de la distribution de Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney, Les Presses de I'Universite de Montreal, 1969, 281 pages, h.
13. N. Buckle, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Tables de la fonction de repartition et des pourcentiles pour la somme de variables aleatoires independantes de meme loi uniforme, Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1969, 141 pages, h.
14. W. Binstock, C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Some small-sample variances for Hodges-Lehmann estimates and related estimates, unpublished manuscript, 1969, h and pdf.
15. C. van Eeden, Estimation based on ranks, Course notes, Universite de Rennes, Rennes, France, 1970.
16. A. Boulanger and C. van Eeden, Sur les tests bases sur les statistiques lineaires simples des rangs, Notes de cours, Universite de Sherbrooke, 1972, 163 pages, h.
17. C.H. Kraft and C. van Eeden, Bounds for the mean and standard deviation of linear combinations of order statistics, Report SW 58/78, repository id: 8057, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1978, 17 pages, h.
18. A. Lyambabaje, S. Tardif and C. van Eeden, Estimation of the center of a symmetric distribution based on a Cramer-von Mises statistic. Rapport de recherche 86-28, Departement de mathematiques et de statistique, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1986, h.
19. A. Charras and C. van Eeden, Inadmissibility for squared error loss of the MLE of a left truncated mean of an exponential distribution, Rapport de recherche, 140, Departement de mathematiques et d'informatique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Technical Report 101, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, 1991, h.
20. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, Subset selection with a generalized selection goal based on a loss function, Technical Report 127, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1993, h and Memorandum COSOR 93-15, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1993, h.
21. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, Subset selection for logistic populations using a loss function: Some basic probabilities, Memorandum COSOR 97-14, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, h.
23. C. van Eeden, Letter to the Editor of Comm. Statist., Theory Methods, 27, 1998, 775.
24. P. van der Laan and C. van Eeden, On how to decide which of two populations is best, Technical Report 177, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1998, h and Memorandum COSOR 98-10, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1998, h.
25. C. van Eeden and J.V. Zidek, Multi-agent prediction of an exponential interevent time, Technical Report Nr 215, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2005. See also Nr. 70 in the list of articles above.
26. C. van Eeden, Rizvi-Sobel subset selection with unequal sample sizes, Technical Report Nr 253, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2009, h and pdf.
27. C. van Eeden, Correction to: Rizvi-Sobel subset
selection with unequal sample sizes, Technical Report Nr 253,
Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia, Technical Report Nr
261, h and pdf.
D. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
1. C. van Eeden, A sequential test with three possible decisions for the comparison of two unknown probabilities. Abstract in: Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress, Amsterdam, 1954, Vol. 2, 286-288, h. Also: Report SP 34/54/R, repository id: 8236 and Report S134/54*, repository id: 8735, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1954.
2. C. van Eeden, On distribution-free bio-assay, Symposium on Quantitative Methods in Pharmacology, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1961, Editor H. de Jonge, 206-210, h. Also: Report SP 74a/61/R, repository id: 8189, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1961.
3. C. van Eeden, Conditional limit distributions for the entries in a 2xk-contingency table, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Classical and Contagious Discrete Distributions, Editor G.P Patil, Pergamon Press, 1965, 123-126, h.
4. C. van Eeden, Nonparametric estimation, Seminaire de mathematiques superieures, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Les Presses de l' Universite de Montreal, 1968, h.
5. C. van Eeden, The robustness of some optimality results in kernel density estimation. Abstract in: XXXIII Semester on Robustness and Nonparametric Statistics, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, March 1-May 31, 1989, h.
6. C. van Eeden, Estimation in restricted parameter spaces, Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Update Volume 3, p. 217-221. S. Kotz, Editor-in-Chief. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999, h.
SOME OF THE TALKS I GAVE IN THE PERIOD 1987-2004
Transparencies of the texts of most of these talks are in the
bookcase in my computing room.
1. October 8, 2004 Pacific Northwest Meeting
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title: Group-Bayes estimation
Extended version of my talk at the 2004 SSC meeting in Montreal in honor of Jim Zidek on his 65th birthday.
2. June 2004 Field Institute Summer School on Ranking
Methods, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Title: On approximations to the null-distribution of linear rank statistics (two talks).
3. May 31, 2004 Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Montreal, Canada.
Title: Group-Bayes estimation
Invited talk in honor of Jim Zidek on his 65th birthday.
4. November 17, 2000 Pacific Northwest Statistics
Group Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Title: Estimation in restricted parameter spaces. Some history and some recent developments
5. November 30, 1998, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Title: Estimation in restricted parameter spaces. Some history and some recent developments
6. October 6, 1998, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title: Relevance weighted likelihood estimates of a
normal mean. (Joint talk with James V. Zidek)
7. Summer 1998, 1998 Purdue Symposium on Statistics, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Title: Relevance weighted likelihood estimates of normal means. Exploiting parameter restrictions in combining information. Joint talk with James V. Zidek.
8. 18 November 1997. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title: On selection procedures based on continuous loss functions
9. May 7, 1997. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Title: Some selection procedures based on continuous loss functions
10. January 20, 1997. Katholieke Universiteit, Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Title: Estimation in truncated parameter spaces. Some history and some recent developments
11. November 26, 1996. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title: On admissible minimax estimation of a lower bounded Poisson mean
12. November 7, 1996. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Title: Exact saddlepoint and Edgeworth expansions for the null-distribution of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic
13.February 6, 1996. Center voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Titel: Estimation in truncated parameter spaces. Some history and some recent developments
15. December 3, 1993. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Title: Some generalized subset selection procedures.
16. January 25, 1993. Meeting of the Dutch Statistical Society.
Section Mathematical Statistics.
Title: Minimax estimation of a bounded scale parameter
17. October 27, 1992. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title: Group Bayes estimation of the exponential mean:
Some admissibility and minimaxity results for the case of
restricted hyper-parameters
Continuation of James V. Zidek's talk on October 20, 1992, entitled:
The Wald theory from the perspective of a current problem: Group and robust estimation for the exponential distribution.
18. October 9, 1992. Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Title: Estimation de la moyenne d'une distribution exponentielle par un groupe de Bayesiens
19. April 1, 1992. Technical University Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.
Title: On a conjecture concerning a characterization of the exponential distribution
20. June 1991. Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada.
Gold Medal address
Title: On a conjecture concerning a characterization of the exponential distribution.
21. September 14, 1990. Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Titel: Estimation non-parametrique d'une fonction de
densite, I. First in a series of five talks on the subject.
22. April 1989. 33rd semester of the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland.
Title: The robustness of some optimality results in kernel density estimation (two talks)
23. 21 April 1987. University of Sofia, Sofia,
Bulgaria.
Title: Some results in kernel density estimation
TEXT OF INVITED TALKS
Talks in honor of Jim Zidek's 65th birthday (.pdf file)
REPORTS OF CONSULTATION WORK
At the Stichting Mathematisch Centrum I wrote (between 1950 and 1960)
about 30 reports of various consultation projects. The kind of problems
researchers needed help with were as diverse as: medicine, biology, the
laundry industry, dentistry, fisheries, language, etc. These reports are
mostly in Dutch and non-published, but the Center has copies of many them.
INTERVIEWS I GAVE
1. Interview published in Liaison, periodical of the Statistical Society of Canada, Vol. 17, no. 4, October 2003.
This interview ''A conversation with Constance van Eeden" was designed, conducted and edited by Bertrand Clarke and based on conversations between Constance and Bertrand at the Halifax Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, 2003.
It was translated into French with as title: "Confidences de Constance van Eeden".
2. Interview published in STAtOR, periodical of the VVS (Dutch Society for Statistics and Operations Research), Vol. 2, nr 1, April 2001.
This interview, with the subtitle ''Interview with prof. dr. Constance van Eeden, last PhD of van Dantzig and doyen of mathematical statistics in Quebec" was designed and conducted by Han Oud and Gerard Alberts and based on a conversation between Constance, Han and Gerard at her home in The Netherlands.
3. Interview published in "UBC Science Synergy",
published by the Faculty of Science, University of British
Columbia, Issue 7.1, fall/winter, 2001, p. 10.
4. Interview to be
published in the journal ESTA to appear in 2012.