Marius Iosifescu & Șerban Grigorescu 
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Probability Theory [PDF ebook] 
August 29–September 4, 1982, Brasov, Romania

Frontmatter – Editorial Note – CONTENTS – L’académicien Octave Onicescu à 90 ans – Invited papers – Probabilistic aspects of Jordan algebras – Rates of convergence and expansions for rank tests: A review and some remarks on the nuisance parameter case – Asymptotically efficient estimator for the index of a stable distribution – Some gambling problems with nonintuitive solutions – Some results on unimodal distribution functions – Some implications of metric tightness on sub o-fields of a probability space – Some remarks on strong mixing conditions – Reduction methods for the vertex packing problem – On weak and strong approximations of the quantile process – Strong Markov property for a class of transition semigroups – Asymptotic results for the pseudo-prime sequence generated by Hawkins’random sieve: Twin primes and Riemann’s hypothesis – Rôles des matrices en statistique et problèmes qu’elles posent – Subexponential distribution functions and their applications: A review – On the application of the theory of probability to two combinatorial problems involving permutations – Stochastic models of economic dynamics and equilibrium: Asymptotic behaviour of equilibrium paths – Critical branching processes with general phase space – A central limit theorem for certain stopped sums and some applications – On the structure of solutions of stochastic dynamic programs – Multiple test unbiasedness – On sequential urn problems – Probabilities related to the random bombardment of a square – The stable asymptotic structure of growing branching populations – Duality theorems and probability metrics – Distributions with known marginals arid duality of mathematical programming with application to PERT – Ansätze und Ergebnissé der optimalen Planung von Experimenten mit sowohl qualitativen als auch quantitativen Einflussfaktoren – On the memory of a Markov chain. A decision theoretical approach – Recent results on multi-stage selection procedures – Non-homogeneous Markov chains: Tail idempotents, tail sigma-fields and basis – The role of the breakpoint in schistosomiasis eradication – On randomized statistical procedures – Some stochastic equations for quasi-diffusion processes – Wiener-Hopf factorization of Markov semigroups— I. The countable state space case – On the asymptotic behavior of the Shapiro-Wilk test – Me and the anthropologist – Bayesian approach to the analysis of clinical studies – Issues arising in multiple comparisons among populations – Problems of estimation in continuous-discrete stochastic models – Ein statistisches Modell für Bonituren – Rates of convergence for the stability of maxima – Indistinguishability of particles and exchangeable random variables – Communications – I. PROBABILITY – On measurability of the inverse of a random mapping with random domain – Some properties of random operators and applications to existence theorems for random equations – Conditional expectation with respect to dependent ?-fields – Changes of time associated with non-homogeneous regular Markov processes – Quelques remarques sur les métriques probabilistes – Continuous semi-Markov processes and an extremal property of Markov processes – A new stochastic model of turbulence – On the random Riemann hypothesis – On nonlinear filtering of Poisson driven dynamical systems – Convolution inverses and branching random walk – On the ergodicity of the tensor product of two stochastic systems – Two remarks on the Skorohod representation – On convergence rates of the strong law for stationary mixing sequences – A characterization of product-measurability of Radon-Nikodym derivatives by separability – Biased estimates for the solution of an integral equation – On a family of metrics for the distribution functions – Application of the orthonormal expansion of random functions to turbulent diffusion – On infinite dimensional continuous square integrable martingales with different