Expert practical and theoretical coverage of runs and scans This volume presents both theoretical and applied aspects of runs and scans, and illustrates their i
In many statistical applications, scientists have to analyze the occurrence of observed clusters of events in time or space. Scientists are especially intereste
The study of scan statistics and their applications to many different scientific and engineering problems have received considerable attention in the literature
This book provides a rigorous, comprehensive introduction to the finite Markov chain imbedding technique for studying the distributions of runs and patterns fro
This book contains extended versions of 34 carefully selected and reviewed papers presented at the Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Rel