Transactions of the Seventh Prague Conference on Information Theory, Statistical Decision Functions, Random Processes and of the 1974 European Meeting of Statisticians: held at Prague, from August 18 to 23, 1974

Front Matter....Pages 1-11
An Algebraic Treatment of Markov Processes....Pages 13-22
On Interconnected Birth and Death Processes with Immigration....Pages 23-28
On the Backward Extrapolation of Non-Stationary Autoregressive Series....Pages 29-36
On Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Parameters of Autoregressive Moving Average Processes....Pages 37-45
On Spatial-Temporal Models and Markov Fields....Pages 47-55
Zur Auswertung des Elektromyogramms mit Spektralanalytischen Methoden....Pages 57-61
L’Utilisation de la Theorie des Phenomenes D’Attente dans L’Analyse des Systemes de Production Agricole....Pages 63-72
On a Class of Bi- and Multivariate Distributions Generated by Marginal Weibull Distributions....Pages 73-81
On the General Stochastic Epidemic with Immigration in Large Populations....Pages 83-96
On the Age Structure of Cell-Size Dependent Branching Processes....Pages 97-101
Information Patterns in Stochastic Point Process Differential Games....Pages 103-111
Zur Simulation Stetiger Stochastischer Wirtschaftmodelle....Pages 113-122
Poissonsche Zufällige Punktfolgen und Ortsabhängige Verdünnungen....Pages 123-133
Die Anzahl der Kreuzungspunkte einer Funktion mit einem Gaussschen Prozess....Pages 135-146
On the Stability of Spatially Homogeneous Cluster Fields....Pages 147-154
A Markov Chain for Type Counts in Vocabulary Subgroups....Pages 155-162
On the Realization of Stochastic Processes by Probability Distributions in Function Spaces....Pages 163-172
Tests of Goodness-of-Fit for Stationary Processes....Pages 173-180
Cybernetic Modelling of Queueing & Storage Systems....Pages 181-190
Scheduling, Queues and Dynamic Allocation Indices....Pages 191-202
Random Graph Theorems....Pages 203-209
Распределение Абсолютного Максимума Пуассоновских И Винеровских Процессов На Цепи Маркова....Pages 211-219
Some Aspects of Automatic Systems of Statistical Inference....Pages 221-229
Random Measures of Gleason Type....Pages 231-237
Functionals of Brownian Motion....Pages 239-243
An Improvement of J. F. Shapiro’s Turnpike Theorem for the Horizon of Finite Stage Discrete Dynamic Programs....Pages 245-255
Improved Procedures for Eliminating Suboptimal Actions in Markov Programming by the Use of Contraction Properties....Pages 257-263
On Markov Policies in Continuous Time Discounted Dynamic Programming....Pages 265-275
Oscillations of Monotone Amplitude and Application....Pages 277-282
Recent Developments in Ergodic Theory....Pages 283-308
A Note on the Generalized Gamma Distribution: The Statistic U = ( X - Y )/( X + Y )....Pages 309-316
On the Boundedness of Stable Processes....Pages 317-323
On the Estimation of the Change Point in the Autoregressive Sequence....Pages 325-334
Stochastic Processes and Properties of Invariance for Queueing Systems with Speeds and Temporary Interruptions....Pages 335-343
Gentzen-Like Random Axiomatic Systems....Pages 345-352
Parameter Estimation in a Linear Stochastic Differential Equation....Pages 353-366
Распределение Вероятностей Типа CR....Pages 367-374
A Stability Theorem for a Characterization of the Wiener Process....Pages 375-390
The Fermion Process — A Model of Stochastic Point Process with Repulsive Points....Pages 391-398
Some Results in the Adaptive Control of Linear Systems....Pages 399-410
Competitive Equilibrium in a Market with Limited Cooperation....Pages 411-419
Advances in the Theory of Stochastic Integration and Applications....Pages 421-432
Second Order Stochastic Processes and Self-Adjoint Operators....Pages 433-440
The Velocity of Stochastic Processes....Pages 441-449
A Mathematical Model of Helminthiasis with External Infection....Pages 451-459
Zur Operatorentheoretischen Charakterisierung Symmetrisch Stabiler Prozesse....Pages 461-466
A Contribution to the Time Series Design Problems....Pages 467-476
A Characterization of Bounded Completeness in the Undominated Case....Pages 477-480
Continuous Filtering Problem for Itô-Mcshane Stochastic Differential Equation....Pages 481-487
Host-Vector Epidemics....Pages 489-498
Replication and Stochastic Processes in Space....Pages 499-504
Rényi-Mixing and Functional Limit Theorems for Martingales....Pages 505-513
On the Moments of a Certain Class of Random Permanents....Pages 515-522
Estimation of the Parameters and Recognition of Stochastic Processes....Pages 523-526
Distance Distributions....Pages 527-530
Miscellaneous Topics in Markov Chains with a General State Space....Pages 531-544
Not Necessarily Additive Realizations of Comparative Probability Relations — A Basis of Decision Theory....Pages 545-554
On the Optimality Conditions for Semi-Markov Decision Processes....Pages 555-562
The Brownian Taboo Bridge with an Application in the Theory of Nonparametric Statistics....Pages 563-566
Stochastic Processes of Second Order with Values in Banach Spaces....Pages 567-574
Stopping Times and Markov Programming....Pages 575-585
Dams with Variable Release Rates....Pages 587-589
On Expected Figures and a Strong Law of Large Numbers for Random Elements in Quasi-Metric Spaces....Pages 591-602