Some Less Recent Papers

  • "Games with finite resources", with C. Melolidakis, Inter. J. Game Theory, 29 (2000) 289-303. (Abstract, pdf version 184K).
  • "On the Inspection Game", with Costis Melolidakis, Naval Research Logistics 45 (1998) 327-334. (Abstract, pdf version 100K).
  • "Some Chip Transfer Games", Theoretical Computer Science 191, (1998) 157-171, (Abstract, pdf version 152K).
  • "Last Round Betting", with Costis Melolidakis, J. Applied Probability (1997) 974-987. (Abstract, pdf version 152K).
  • "Multiple Buying or Selling with Vector Offers", with F. Thomas Bruss, J. Applied Probability 34 (1997) 959-973. (Abstract, pdf version 232K).
  • "A Poisson Fishing Model", Festschrift for Lucien Le Cam, Springer, (1997) 234-244. (Abstract, pdf version 108K).
  • Statistics, Probability and Game Theory, Papers in Honor of David Blackwell. IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series Vol. 30, Editors: T.S. Ferguson, L.S. Shapley and J.B. MacQueen (1996). (Abstract, Contents.)
  • "Half-prophets and Robbins' Problem of Minimizing the Expected Rank", with F. Thomas Bruss, in Athens Conference on Applied Probability and Time Series, Lecture Notes in Statistics 114, Springer-Verlag, New York, (1996) pp 1-17, (Abstract, pdf version 184K).
  • "A Problem in Minimax Estimation With Directional Information", Probability and Statistics Letters 26 (1996) 205-211, (Abstract, pdf version 82K).
  • "A Class of Symmetric Bivariate Uniform Distributions", Statistical Papers 36 (1995) 31-40, (Abstract, pdf version 148K).
  • "Minimax Estimation of a Variance", with Lynn Kuo, Ann. Inst. Statist. Math. 46 (1994) 295-308. (pdf version 140K).
  • "Minimizing the Expected Rank With Full Information", with F. Thomas Bruss, J. Appl. Prob. 30 (1993) 616-626,(pdf version 124K).
  • "On the Asymptotic Distribution of Max and Mex", Statistical Papers 34 (1993) 97-111, (pdf version).
  • "Best-Choice Problems with Dependent Criteria", in "Strategies for Sequential Search and Selection in Real Time", Contemporary Mathematics 125 (1992) 135-151, (pdf version 148K).
  • "Maximizing the Duration of Owning a Relatively Best Object", with J. P. Hardwick and M. Tamaki, in "Strategies for Sequential Search and Selection in Real Time", Contemporary Mathematics 125 (1992) 37-57, (pdf version 184K).
  • "Mate with Bishop and Knight in Kriegspiel" Theoretical Computer Science 96 (1992) 389-403.(pdf version 100K).
  • "Bayesian Nonparametric Inference", with E. G. Phadia, and Ram Tiwari (1992) in Current Issues in Statistical Inference: Essays in Honor of D. Basu (M. Ghosh and P.K. Patnak, Eds.) vol. 17, IMS Lecture Notes & Monograph Series, (review article). pdf version.
  • "Some time-invariant stopping rule problems", with J. B. MacQueen, Optimization 23 (1992) 155-169, (pdf version 148K).
  • "Models for the Game of Liar's Dice" with Chris Ferguson, in Stochastic Games and Related Topics, T.E.S. Raghavan, et al. (eds.) (1991) 15-28. (pdf version 4.9M).
  • "The Number Hides Game" with V. J. Baston and F. A. Bostock, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 107 (1989) 437-447. (pdf version).
  • "Misère Annihilation Games" Journal Comb.Theory, Series A 37 (1984) 205-230. (pdf version 1.3M.)
  • "Bayesian Density Estimation by Mixtures of Normal Distributions", in Recent Advances in Statistics M. H. Rizvi et al. (eds.) (1983) Acadmic Press. (pdf version 4.6M).
  • "Sequential Estimation with Dirichlet Process Priors" in Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics III, Vol. 1, S.S. Gupta and J.O. Berger (eds), Academic Press, (1982) 385-401. (pdf version 4.5M).
  • "On Sums of Graph Games with Last Player Losing" Int. Journal of Game Theory, 3 (1975) 159-167. (pdf version.)
  • "Lose a Dollar or Double Your Fortune" Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1970-1971, Vol III, 657-666. University of California Press, pdf version 3M).
  • "On Characterizing Distributions by Properties of Order Statistics" Sankhyā , Series A 29 (1967) 265-278. pdf version.
  • "On discrete evasion games with a two-move information lag" Proc. Fifth Berkeley Symp. on Math. Stat. and Prob. (1966) Vol. 1, 453-462. pdf version.
  • "Betting Systems which Minimize the Probability of Ruin" J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math. 13, (1965) 795-818, (JSTOR pdf version 1.8M).
  • "A Characterization of the Geometric Distribution" Amer. Math. Monthly 72, (1965) 256-260. (pdf version.)
  • "On the Existence of Linear Regression in Linear Structural Relations" Univ. of Calif. Publications in Statistics (1955) Vol. 2 No. 7, pp. 143-165. (pdf version.)

  • Unpublished papers.