Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook

✍ Scribed by Jerald F. Lawless

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Features
Presents expository articles authored by leading Canadian statisticians
Illustrates the breadth and impact of statistics on many fields, including medicine, epidemiology, technology, finance, and ecology
Discusses numerous aspects of statistical theory and methods
Emphasizes current and potential future issues, such as difficulties involved with big data

Commissioned by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), Statistics in Action: A Canadian Outlook helps both general readers and users of statistics better appreciate the scope and importance of statistics. It presents the ways in which statistics is used while highlighting key contributions that Canadian statisticians are making to science, technology, business, government, and other areas. The book emphasizes the role and impact of computing in statistical modeling and analysis, including the issues involved with the huge amounts of data being generated by automated processes.
The first two chapters review the development of statistics as a discipline in Canada and describe some major contributions to survey methodology made by Statistics Canada, one of the world’s premier official statistics agencies. The book next discusses how statistical methodologies, such as functional data analysis and the Metropolis algorithm, are applied in a wide variety of fields, including risk management and genetics. It then focuses on the application of statistical methods in medicine and public health as well as finance and e-commerce. The remainder of the book addresses how statistics is used to study critical scientific areas, including difficult-to-access populations, endangered species, climate change, and agricultural forecasts.

About the SSC
Founded in Montréal in 1972, the SSC is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in Canada. Its mission is to promote the use and development of statistics and probability. The SSC publishes the bilingual quarterly newsletter SSC Liaison and the peer-reviewed scientific journal The Canadian Journal of Statistics. More information can be found at www.ssc.ca.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword Christian Léger

Preface Jerald F. Lawless

Chapter 1. Canadians Studying Abroad and the Development of Statistics in Canada
David R. Bellhouse, Stephen E. Fienberg

Chapter 2. Some of Statistics Canada’s Contributions to Survey Methodology
Jean-Francois Beaumont, Susie Fortier, Jack Gambino, Mike Hidiroglou, Pierre Lavallee

Chapter 3. Watching Children Grow Taught Us All We Know
James O. Ramsay, Michael Hermanussen

Chapter 4. Modeling Dependence beyond Correlation
Christian Genest, Johanna G. Neslehova

Chapter 5. Lasso and Sparsity in Statistics
Robert J. Tibshirani

Chapter 6. Optimizing and Adapting the Metropolis Algorithm
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Chapter 7. Design of Computer Experiments for Optimization, Estimation of Function Contours and Related Objectives
Derek Bingham, Pritam Ranjan, William J. Welch

Chapter 8. Statistical Genetic Modeling and Analysis of Complex Traits
Shelley B. Bull, Jinko Graham, Celia M. T. Greenwood

Chapter 9. Bayesian Methods in Fisher’s Statistical Genetics World
Radu V. Craiu, Lei Sun

Chapter 10. Bayesian Statistical Methodology for Observational Health Sciences Data
Paul Gustafson

Chapter 11. Statistical Models for Disease Processes:Markers and Skeletal Complications in Cancer Metastatic to Bone
Richard J. Cook

Chapter 12. Analysis of Biased Survival Data
Masoud Asgharian, Christina Wolfson, David B. Wolfson

Chapter 13. Assessing the Effect on Survival of Kidney Transplantation with Higher-Risk Donor Kidneys
Douglas E. Schaubel, John D. Kalbfleisch

Chapter 14. Risk-Adjusted Monitoring of Outcomes in Health Care
Stefan H. Steiner

Chapter 15. Statistics in Financial Engineering
Bruno Remillard

Chapter 16. Making Personalized Recommendations in E-Commerce
Mu Zhu

Chapter 17. What Do Salmon and Injection Drug Users Have in Common?
Laura L. E. Cowen, Wendell O. Challenger, Carl J. Schwarz

Chapter 18. Capture–Recapture Methods for Estimating the Size of a Population
Louis-Paul Rivest, Sophie Baillargeon

Chapter 19. Challenges in Statistical Marine Ecology
Joanna Mills Flemming, Christopher A. Field

Chapter 20. Quantifying the Human and Natural Contributions to Observed Climate Change
Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Xuebin Zhang, Qiuzi Wen

Chapter 21. Data Hungry Models in a Food Hungry World
Louis Kouadio, Nathaniel Newlands

Index

✦ Subjects

Финансово-экономические дисциплины;Статистика экономическая;Социально-экономическая статистика;