β Scribed by Tonio Di Battista, ElΓas Moreno, Walter Racugno (eds.)
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This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena.Β
Major topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to, bayesian inference, likelihood approach, pseudo-likelihoods, regression, time series, and data analysis as well asΒ applications in the life and social sciences.
The software packages used in the papers are made available by the authors.
This book is a result of the 47th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, held at the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2014.
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introducing Prior Information into the Forward Search for Regression....Pages 1-8
A Finite Mixture Latent Trajectory Model for Hirings and Separations in the Labor Market....Pages 9-20
Outliers in Time Series: An Empirical Likelihood Approach....Pages 21-29
Advanced Methods to Design Samples for Land Use/Land Cover Surveys....Pages 31-42
Heteroscedasticity, Multiple Populations and Outliers in Trade Data....Pages 43-50
How to Marry Robustness and Applied Statistics....Pages 51-64
Logistic Quantile Regression to Model Cognitive Impairment in Sardinian Cancer Patients....Pages 65-73
Bounding the Probability of Causation in Mediation Analysis....Pages 75-84
Analysis of Collaboration Structures Through Time: The Case of Technological Districts....Pages 85-93
Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urban Air Pollution Dynamics....Pages 95-103
Clustering Functional Data on Convex Function Spaces....Pages 105-114
The Impact of Demographic Change on Sustainability of Emergency Departments....Pages 115-129
Bell-Shaped Fuzzy Numbers Associated with the Normal Curve....Pages 131-144
Improving Co-authorship Network Structures by Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources....Pages 145-153
Statistical Issues in Bayesian Meta-Analysis....Pages 155-172
Statistical Evaluation of Forensic DNA Mixtures from Multiple Traces....Pages 173-180
A Note on Semivariogram....Pages 181-190
Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Evidence from Canada Health Data....Pages 191-203
Pseudo-Likelihoods for Bayesian Inference....Pages 205-220
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