Vol.52, No.1 (2004) Contents

Special Topic: Extreme Value Theory
On the Special Issue "Extreme Value Theory"
..........Rinya TAKAHASHI and Takaaki SHIMURA (52, 1-4)
Database Available to Researches on Natural Disaster Reduction
..........Takeo KINOSITA (52, 5-24)
Recent Topics on the Extreme Theory Based on Weakly Dependent Data
..........Ken-ichi YOSHIHARA (52, 25-43)
Trimmed Sums
..........Makoto MAEJIMA (52, 45-62)
Information-approximations to the Joint Distributions of Fluctuating Numbers of Quasi-extreme Order Statistics
..........Tadashi MATSUNAWA and Yoshinobu NAKAMURA (52, 63-82)
Composition of Estimators Based on Characterization by Maximum Entropy Method of a Generalized Pareto Distribution
..........Toshihiko KAWAMURA and Kosei IWASE (52, 83-92)
Estimation of Larger Quantiles Based on the r Largest Observations
..........Rinya TAKAHASHI and Masaaki SIBUYA (52, 93-116)
Estimation of Human Longevity Distribution Based on Tabulated Statistics
..........Masaaki SIBUYA and Nobutane HANAYAMA (52, 117-134)
Two Indices for Tail Part Distribution of Population of Extremal Wave Heights : Tail Length and Tail Thickness
..........Toshikazu KITANO (52, 135-149)
Multi-site Wind and Earthquake Hazard Analysis via Multivariate Extreme Value Distribution
..........Jun KANDA and Kazuyoshi NISHIJIMA (52, 151-173)
Low Probability Breakdown Voltage Estimation for the New Step-up Test Method
..........Hideo HIROSE (52, 175-187)

Colloquia
Model-based Approach for Knowledge Discovery from Large-scale Database
..........Tomoyuki HIGUCHI (52, 189-195)
Chemical Information Processing with Statistical and Soft Computing Methods for Practical Prediction in Chemistry
..........Hiroko SATOH (52, 197-199)
Prediction and Findings in Polar Sciences for Global Change Research
..........Takashi YAMANOUCHI (52, 201-206)
Genome Informatics for Unveiling Hidden Genome Signatures
..........Takashi ABE, Shigehiko KANAYA, Makoto KINOUCHI and Toshimichi IKEMURA (52, 207-215)

Abstracts of Research Works in 2003
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ISM Cooperative Research Program (2003)
.......... (52, 255-258)