Institute of Mathematical Statistics
LECTURE NOTES-MONOGRAPH SERIES
State of the Art in
Probability and Statistics
Festschrift for Willem R. van Zwet
Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen & Aad van der Vaart, Editors
Volume 36
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
LECTURE NOTES-MONOGRAPH SERIES
Volume 36
State of the Art in
Probability and Statistics
Festschrift for Willem R. van Zwet
Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen & Aad van der Vaart, Editors
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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PREFACE
Prom Maxch 23-26, 1999 a symposium was held in the Lorentz Center of
the University of Leiden in honour of the 65th birthday of Willem van Zwet.
On each of the first three days of the symposium, six leading researchers
in probability and statistics gave one-hour talks on current developments
in these fields. The symposium was closed with two talks addressed to a
general mathematical audience.
Following the symposium Willem van Zwet gave a farewell lecture in the
"Academie Gebouw" of the university. (See [62] on page xviii.)
This volume contains the proceedings of the symposium plus 13 other
papers and serves as a Festschrift for Willem van Zwet. In addition to the
33 refereed articles on a wide range of topics in probability and statistics,
we have included a short version of Willem's vitae and the family tree of
Willem's students. (See the contribution by van Eeden.)
Amsterdam, July 2000
Mathisca de Gunst
Chris Klaassen
Aad van der Vaart
Willem R. van Zwet, Oberwolfach 1992