This book provides a comprehensive and balanced treatment of both classical and modern methods in nonparametric inference. It begins with foundational topics such as order statistics, ranks, and confidence intervals for medians and percentiles before progressing to distribution-free tests, robust estimators, regression quantiles and U-statistics. Advanced topics include nonparametric density and regression estimation, model diagnostics, empirical likelihood, and survival analysis, includin...

This volume highlights Prof. Hira Koul’s achievements in many areas of Statistics, including Asymptotic theory of statistical inference, Robustness, Weighted empirical processes and their applications, Survival Analysis, Nonlinear time series and Econometrics, among others. Chapters are all original papers that explore the frontiers of these areas and will assist researchers and graduate students working in Statistics, Econometrics and related areas. Prof. Hira Koul was the first Ph.D. stu...