New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications

✍ Scribed by António Pacheco, Rui Santos, Maria do Rosário Oliveira, Carlos Daniel Paulino (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics : Selected Papers of the Statistical Societies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume of the Selected Papers is a product of the XIX Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, held at the Portuguese town of Nazaré, from September 28 to October 1, 2011. All contributions were selected after a thorough peer-review process. It covers a broad scope of papers in the areas of Statistical Science, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Extremes and Statistical Applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Non-mathematical Side of Statistics....Pages 3-15
Outliers : The Strength of Minors....Pages 17-27
Resampling Methodologies in the Field of Statistics of Univariate Extremes....Pages 29-40
Robust Functional Principal Component Analysis....Pages 41-54
Testing the Maximum by the Mean in Quantitative Group Tests....Pages 55-63
Testing Serial Correlation Using the Gauss–Newton Regression....Pages 65-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Cantor Sets with Random Repair....Pages 75-83
Nearest Neighbor Connectivity in Two-Dimensional Multihop MANETs....Pages 85-94
Modeling Human Population Death Rates: A Bi-Dimensional Stochastic Gompertz Model with Correlated Wiener Processes....Pages 95-103
Consequences of an Incorrect Model Specification on Population Growth....Pages 105-113
Individual Growth in a Random Environment: An Optimization Problem....Pages 115-123
Valuation of Bond Options Under the CIR Model: Some Computational Remarks....Pages 125-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
A Semi-parametric Estimator of a Shape Second-Order Parameter....Pages 137-144
Peaks Over Random Threshold Asymptotically Best Linear Estimation of the Extreme Value Index....Pages 145-153
Extremal Quantiles, Value-at-Risk, Quasi-PORT and DPOT....Pages 155-161
The MOP EVI-Estimator Revisited....Pages 163-175
Tail Dependence of a Pareto Process....Pages 177-185
Application of the Theory of Extremes to the Study of Precipitation in Madeira Island: Statistical Choice of Extreme Domains of Attraction....Pages 187-195
The Traveling Salesman Problem and the Gnedenko Theorem....Pages 197-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Brugada Syndrome Diagnosis: Three Approaches to Combining Diagnostic Markers....Pages 209-217
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Hierarchical Normal Mixture Model to Analyse HIV/AIDS LOS....Pages 219-227
Volatility and Returns of the Main Stock Indices....Pages 229-237
Using INLA to Estimate a Highly Dimensional Spatial Model for Forest Fires in Portugal....Pages 239-247
Forecast Intervals with Boot.EXPOS....Pages 249-256
Table-Graph: A New Approach to Visualize Multivariate Data. Analysis of Chronic Diseases in Portugal....Pages 257-264
Application of Item Response Theory to Mathematics High School Exams in Portugal....Pages 265-274
Évora Residents and Sports Activity....Pages 275-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-285

✦ Subjects

Statistical Theory and Methods; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes