Statistical Methods for Biostatistics and Related Fields

✍ Scribed by Professor Wolfgang Härdle, Professor Yuichi Mori, Professor Philippe Vieu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 372
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biostatistics is one of the scientific fields for which the recent developments have been extremely important. It is also strongly related to other scientific disciplines involving statistical methodology. The aim of this book is to cover a wide scope of recent statistical methods used by scientists in biostatistics as well as in other related fields such as chemometrics, environmetrics and geophysics.

The contributed papers, coming from internationally recognized researchers, present various statistical methodologies together with a selected scope of their main mathematical properties and their applications in real case studies, making this book of interest to a wide audience among researchers and students in statistics.

Each method is accompanied with interactive and automatic Xplore routines, available on-line, allowing people to reproduce the proposed examples or to apply the methods to their own real datasets. Thus this book will also be of special interest to practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Discriminant Analysis Based on Continuous and Discrete Variables....Pages 3-27
Longitudinal Data Analysis with Linear Regression....Pages 29-43
A Kernel Method Used for the Analysis of Replicated Micro-array Experiments....Pages 45-61
Kernel Estimates of Hazard Functions for Biomedical Data Sets....Pages 63-86
Partially Linear Models....Pages 87-103
Analysis of Contingency Tables....Pages 105-124
Identifying Coexpressed Genes....Pages 125-145
Bootstrap Methods for Testing Interactions in GAMs....Pages 147-166
Survival Trees....Pages 167-179
A Semiparametric Approach to Estimate Reference Curves for Biophysical Properties of the Skin....Pages 181-205
Survival Analysis....Pages 207-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Ozone Pollution Forecasting Using Conditional Mean and Conditional Quantiles with Functional Covariates....Pages 221-243
Nonparametric Functional Methods: New Tools for Chemometric Analysis....Pages 245-264
Variable Selection in Principal Component Analysis....Pages 265-283
Spatial Statistics....Pages 285-304
Functional Data Analysis....Pages 305-327
Analysis of Failure Time with Microearthquakes Applications....Pages 329-345
Polychotomous Regression: Application to Landcover Prediction....Pages 347-356
The Application of Fuzzy Clustering to Satellite Images Data....Pages 357-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-370

✦ Subjects

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry & Geosciences; Statistical Theory and Methods