Statistical Outliers and Related Topics
暫譯: 統計異常值及相關主題

這本書包含了由專家撰寫的有關異常值及相關主題的不同方面的文章。

Dr. Mir Masoom Ali is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Ball State University in USA. He obtained his B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees both in Statistics from the University of Dhaka and his second M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Toronto, Canada. After working for the erstwhile Government of Pakistan and Ball State University as a practicing and teaching statistician for 50 years he retired in 2007. He founded the Statistics degree programs at Ball State University in 1971. Dr. Ali has published widely and extensively in leading statistical journals on h-statistics, l-statistics, k-statistics and related finite sampling methods, order statistics and statistical inference based on optimal spacing and goodness-of-fit procedures and also published in diverse areas such as multivariate statistics, characterization problems, mixtures of distributions, ranking and selection, survival analysis, estimation of tail probabilities, parametric estimation, Bayesian inference, skew-symmetric distributions and generalized distributions. He was keynote, plenary and invited speaker at many national and international conferences. Professor Ali has been a visiting professor/scholar at several universities and Statistical Institutes in USA, Canada, Bangladesh, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan. He has received many awards, including the first Qazi Motahar Husain Gold Medal of the Bangladesh Statistical Association and another from the Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences, the Outstanding Researcher Award and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Ball State University and five Meritorious Service awards from the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop. He is the recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash which is the highest award of the State of Indiana, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, USA; Royal Statistical Society, UK; the Institute of Statisticians, UK; Expatriate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Fellow, Dhaka University Statistics Department Alumni Association and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Ali has served as editor, associate editor and editorial board member of several international statistical journals. Five Special Volumes of Statistical Journals and a Festscrieft have been published in his honor over the years. Dr. Ali co-authored the book Testing and Inspection Using Acceptance Sampling Plans published by Springer in 2019. His co-authored edited book G Families of Probability Distributions: Theory and Practices will be published by CRC Press toward the end of 2022.

Dr. Rahmatullah Imon is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University. He obtained his B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Rajshahi and his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Birmingham, U.K. Dr. Imon began his academic career as a Lecturer at the Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi on July 1, 1992 and worked there prior to joining the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Ball State University, USA in 2008. He has been serving this department as a Full Professor since 2012. Dr. Imon's area of specialization is Regression Diagnostics, Robust Regression and Outlier Detection, Multivariate Analysis, Sample Reuse Methods, Time Series Analysis, Statistical Computing and Graphics, and Environmental Statistics. Dr. Imon has published several books, and a good number of research articles and book chapters in refereed journals and proceedings of international conferences so far. He was a keynote, plenary and invited speaker at many national and international conferences. He has supervised a good number of research students in various capacities. Dr. Imon served as a distinguished visiting professor at the American University in Cairo in 2015. In addition to this he worked at University Putra Malaysia, University of Malaya, University Sains Malaysia, and Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta as visiting professor/scientist. Dr. Imon is a member of several statistical organizations including the International Statistical Institute as an elected member.

Irfan Ali received B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim University. He received the Post Graduate Merit Scholarship Award during his M.Sc. (statistics) and the UGC-BSR Scholarship awarded during his Ph.D. (statistics) programs. His research interests include applied statistics, mathematical programming, Fuzzy optimization and multi-objective optimization. He has supervised M.Sc., projects, M.Phil., dissertations and Ph.D. thesis under his supervision in operations research and applied statistics topics. He has completed a research project UGC-Start-Up Grant Project, UGC, New Delhi, India. He has published more than 100+ research articles in reputed journals and serves as a Reviewer for several journals. He has published several edited books for Springer and Taylor's Francis, CRC press. He is a Lifetime Member of various professional societies: Operational Research Society of India, Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, Indian Mathematical Society, and The Indian Science Congress Association. He delivered invited talks at several universities and Institutions. He also serves as an Associate Editor for some journals.

Dr. Haitham M. Yousof is an Assistant professor of Statistics. Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Insurance, Faculty of Commerce, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt. M.Sc. Applied Statistics, 2011, Benha University, Egypt. Ph.D. Applied Statistics, 2015, Benha University. Total Publications: 144. Cumulative Impact Factor (2021) [JCR-2021] = 26.68. Total citations: 2422 (Google Scholar). h-index: 29 (Google Scholar). h-index: 17 (Scopus). i10-index: 63 (Google Scholar). Research interest: Probability Theory; Continuous Distributions; Discrete Distributions; Continuous G Families of Distributions; Discrete G Families of Distributions; Generalized Class of Distributions; Bivariate G Families of Distributions; Bayesian Analysis; Semi-parametric Regression; Parametric Regression; Nonparametric Regression and new goodness-of-fit tests.

**Dr. Mir Masoom Ali** 是美國巴爾州立大學的喬治與法蘭西斯·巴爾傑出名譽教授。他在達卡大學獲得統計學的榮譽學士學位和碩士學位，並在加拿大多倫多大學獲得數學統計學的第二個碩士學位和博士學位。經過在巴基斯坦政府和巴爾州立大學擔任實務和教學統計學家50年後，他於2007年退休。他於1971年創立了巴爾州立大學的統計學學位課程。阿里博士在主要的統計學期刊上廣泛發表有關統計量、統計量、統計量及相關的有限抽樣方法、順序統計和基於最佳間距及擬合優度程序的統計推斷的文章，並在多變量統計、特徵化問題、分佈混合、排名與選擇、生存分析、尾概率估計、參數估計、貝葉斯推斷、偏對稱分佈和廣義分佈等多個領域發表過文章。他曾在許多國內外會議上擔任主題演講、全體會議和受邀演講者。阿里教授曾在美國、加拿大、孟加拉國、印度、南韓、沙烏地阿拉伯和日本的多所大學和統計機構擔任訪問教授/學者。他獲得了許多獎項，包括孟加拉統計協會的第一屆卡齊·莫塔哈爾·侯賽因金獎，以及來自伊斯蘭統計科學協會的獎項，巴爾州立大學的傑出研究者獎和傑出教職員獎，以及來自中西部生物製藥統計研討會的五項優秀服務獎。他是美國印第安納州最高獎項的獲得者。他是美國統計協會、英國皇家統計學會、英國統計學家協會、孟加拉科學院的外籍院士、達卡大學統計系校友會的傑出院士，以及國際統計學會的當選成員。阿里博士曾擔任多本國際統計期刊的編輯、助理編輯和編輯委員會成員。多年來，為了紀念他，已出版五本統計期刊的特刊和一本紀念文集。阿里博士與他人合著的書籍《Testing and Inspection Using Acceptance Sampling Plans》於2019年由Springer出版。他合編的書籍《G Families of Probability Distributions: Theory and Practices》將於2022年底由CRC Press出版。

**Dr. Rahmatullah Imon** 是巴爾州立大學數學科學系的統計學教授。他在拉傑沙希大學獲得統計學的榮譽學士學位和碩士學位，並在英國伯明翰大學獲得數學和統計學的博士學位。Imon博士於1992年7月1日開始他的學術生涯，擔任拉傑沙希大學統計系的講師，並在2008年加入巴爾州立大學數學科學系，至今已擔任該系的正教授自2012年以來。Imon博士的專業領域包括回歸診斷、穩健回歸和異常值檢測、多變量分析、樣本重用方法、時間序列分析、統計計算與圖形以及環境統計。Imon博士迄今已出版多本書籍，以及多篇在國際會議的審核期刊和論文集中發表的研究文章。他曾在許多國內外會議上擔任主題演講、全體會議和受邀演講者。他指導了多位研究生，並在2015年擔任開羅美國大學的傑出訪問教授。此外，他還曾在馬來西亞普特拉大學、馬來亞大學、馬來西亞科學大學和印度加爾各答統計學院擔任訪問教授/科學家。Imon博士是多個統計組織的成員，包括國際統計學會的當選成員。

**Irfan Ali** 於阿里格爾穆斯林大學獲得學士、碩士、碩士研究學位和博士學位。他目前在阿里格爾穆斯林大學的統計與運籌學系擔任助理教授。在攻讀碩士學位（統計學）期間，他獲得了研究生優秀獎學金，並在攻讀博士學位（統計學）期間獲得了UGC-BSR獎學金。他的研究興趣包括應用統計學、數學規劃、模糊優化和多目標優化。他在運籌學和應用統計主題下指導了多個碩士項目、碩士研究論文和博士論文。他已完成一個UGC啟動資助項目，來自印度新德里的UGC。他在知名期刊上發表了超過100篇研究文章，並擔任多本期刊的審稿人。他為Springer和Taylor & Francis、CRC Press出版了多本編輯書籍。他是多個專業社團的終身會員，包括印度運籌學會、印度概率與統計學會、印度數學學會和印度科學大會。他在多所大學和機構發表了受邀演講，並擔任一些期刊的助理編輯。

**Dr. Haitham M. Yousof** 是統計學助理教授，任職於埃及本哈大學商學院的統計、數學與保險系。他於2011年在本哈大學獲得應用統計碩士學位，並於2015年獲得應用統計博士學位。總出版物：144篇。累積影響因子（2021）[JCR-2021] = 26.68。總引用次數：2422（Google Scholar）。h指數：29（Google Scholar）。h指數：17（Scopus）。i10指數：63（Google Scholar）。研究興趣：概率論；連續分佈；離散分佈；連續G族分佈；離散G族分佈；廣義分佈類；雙變量G族分佈；貝葉斯分析；半參數回歸；參數回歸；非參數回歸及新擬合優度檢驗。