Discussion to Articles


1. To the RSS Journal

1967

Discussion to “A study of low-temperature probabilities in the context of an industrial problem” of V. D. Barnett and T. Lewis. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 130, 202.

 

1971

Discussion to “Spline transformation” of L. I. Boneva et al. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 33, 50-51.

 

1974

Discussion to “Pole-seeking Brownian motion” of D.G. Kendall. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 36, 404-405.

 

1976

Discussion to “A Bayesian analysis of the megalithic yard” of P. R. Freeman. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 139, 50.

Discussion to “Multivariate methods in clinical assessment” of J. A. Anderson. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 139, 180.

Discussion to “The ordering of multivariate data” of V. D. Barnett. Seconder for vote of thanks. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 139, 346-347.

 

1978

Discussion to “Smoking and lung cancer” of P. R. J. Burch. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 141, 468-469.

 

1979

Discussion  toEdgeworth and saddle-point approximations with statistical applications” of O. Barndorff-Nielsen. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 41, 304-305.

 

1980

Discussion to “Simulating the Ley Hunter” of S. Broadbent. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 143, 137.

1982

Discussion to “Analysing geographic variation in cardiovascular mortality” of S. J. Pocock et al. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 145, 333-334.

 

1986

Discussion to “On the statistical analysis of dirty pictures” of J. Besag. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 48, 287-288.

Discussion to “Continuous second order models of spatial variation with applications to the efficiency of field experiments” of Brewer and Mead. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 149, 341-342.

 

1987

Discussion to “Projection pursuit” of M. C. Jones and R. Sibson. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 150, 22-23.

Discussion to “Estimation and inference by compact coding” of C. S. Wallace and P. R. Freeman. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 49, 259.

Discussion to “Stochastic complexity” of J. Rissanen. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 49, 259.

Discussion to “Statistical models of kinetics in liquids” of P. Clifford, N. J. B. Green and M. J. Pilling. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 49, 290-291.

 

1988

Discussion to “Probability, statistics and theology” D.J. Batholomew. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. A 151, 166-167.

Discussion to “Local computations with probabilities on graphical structures and their application to expert systems” of S. L. Lauritzen and D. J. Spiegelhalter. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B  50, 210.

 

1989

Discussion to “Space-time modelling with long-memory dependence: Assessing Ireland’s wind power resource” of J. Haslett and A. Raftery. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. C 49, 36-37.

 

1990

Discussion to “A smoothed EM approach to indirect estimation problem with particular reference to stereology and emission tomography” of B. W. Silverman, J. D. Wilson and D. W. Nychka. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 52, 317.

 

1993

Discussion to papers on "Gibbs sampler and other MCMC methods." J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 55, 83-84.

 

1994

Discussion to “Informative drop-out in longitudinal data analysis” of P. Diggle and M. G. Kenward.  J. Appl. Statist. 43, 85-86.

Discussion to “Representations of knowledge in complex systems” of U. Grenander and M. I. Miller. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 56, 583-584.

Discussion to “Neural networks and related methods for classification” of B. Ripley (with A. J. Baczkowski). J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 56, 444-445.

 

2002

Discussion on the meeting on “Statistical modelling and analysis of genetic data” of K.W. Broman and T.P. Speed. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 64, 754-755.

 

2004

Discussion to “A Conditional Approach for Multivariate Extreme Values” by Heffernan, J.E. and Tawn, J.A. J.R. Statist. Soc. B., 66, pp.536.

 

 

2. Other Discussions

2002

Discussion to “Spatial-temporal nonlinear filtering based on hierarchical statistical models” of Irwin, M. E., Cressie, N., and Johannesson, G. (with J.T. Kent). TEST, 11, 287-288.

 

2007

Discussion to “Gait-based human recognition by classification of cyclostationary process on nonlinear shape manifolds” of D. Kaziska and A. Srivastava. Journal of American Statistical Society (in press).