"A distinguished group of world-class scholars offer this collection of insightful papers as a tribute to the great statistician Madan Lal Puri, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. This exemplary reference contains over 2500 equations and exhaustively covers not only nonparametrics but also parametric, semiparametric, frequentist, Bayesian, bootstrap, adaptive, univariate, and multivariate statistical methods, as well as practical uses of Markov chain models."--BOOK JACKET.