Runs and Patterns in Probability: Selected Papers

1. Combinatorial Probability.- 1. Expressions in Terms of Binomial Coefficients for some Multivariate Distributions of Order k.- 2. Success Runs in a Circular Sequence of Independent Bernoulli Trials.- 3. Inversion Techniques and Combinatorial Identities: A Quick Introduction to Hypergeometric Evaluations.- 4. The Two-Color Whitworth Problem for Long Cycles or Long Lines.- 5. Binomial Distributions of Order k on the Circle.- 6. Length of the Longest Non-Decreasing Subsequence on Two Symbols.- 7. Exchangeability and Recursion in the Conditional Distribution Theory of Number and Length of Runs.- 8. The Longest Run of any Letter in a Randomly Generated Word.- 2. Reliability Theory and Statistics.- 9. Applications of Consecutive System Reliability in Selecting Acceptance Sampling Strategies.- 10. Exact and Approximate Hypercube Reliabilities.- 11. Runs and Patterns with Applications to Reliability.- 12. Robust Procedures for Detecting Non-Random Patterns.- 13. Reliability of Consecutive Weighted k-out-of-n:F System.- 3. Limit Theorems and Approximations.- 14. Pattern Recognition in Markov Chains.- 15. On the Waiting Time of Appearance of Given Patterns.- 16. Runs and Excursions.- 17. Applications of the Stein-Chen Method to the Theory of Patterns and Runs: An Annotated Bibliography.- 18. Runs of Superimposed Poisson Processess.- 19. Circular Overlapping Success Runs.- 20. Asymptotic Joint Distribution of Cover Times.