This new edited volume features contributions from many of the leading scientists in probability and statistics from the latter part of the 20th century. It is the only book to assemble the views of these leading scientists—the pioneers in their respective fields. features contributions by: * on statistics and econometrics; and on convex sets of multivariate distributions and their extreme points; on the future of statistics; on regression association and causation; on sample ordering for effective statistical inference with particular reference to environmental issues; on a unified statistical approach to some measurement problems in the social sciences; on scanning a lattice for a particular pattern; on new paradigms for probability sampling (his last paper); on limit distributions of uncorrelated but dependent distributions on the unit square; on some new elliptical distributions; on the life span of a renewal; on maximum likelihood estimates of genetic effects; and on convergence rate estimates in functional limit theorems. The volume also includes the following contributions by faculty members of the Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business: on a predictive model evaluation and selection approach—the correlated gamma ratio distribution; on extreme value index estimators and smoothing alternatives; on mixtures everywhere; and on latent variable models with covariates. will appeal to researchers, professionals, and students interested in the history and development of statistics and probability as well as in related areas, such as physics, biometry, economics, and mathematics. Academic and professional statisticians will benefit from the book's coverage of the latest developments in the field, as well as reflections on the future directions of the discipline.