Applied Directional Statistics: Modern Methods and Case Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367733452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 300 str.

Christophe Ley; Thomas Verdebout

Opis

This book describes new data-driven methodologies and case studies.The primary targeted audience is researchers in statistics, as well as those in fundamental roles such as earth sciences, environmetrics, astrophysics, machine learning, image analysis and bioinformatics.

Spis treści

Bioinformatics. State-space Markov processes applied to sea waves. Needlets and cosmology. Machine learning. Human body measurements. Circular statistics with R.

O autorze

Christophe Ley is professor of mathematical statistics at Ghent University. His research interests include semi-parametrically efficient inference, flexible modeling, directional statistics, sport statistics and the study of asymptotic approximations via Stein’s Method. His achievements include the Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel prize of the Société Française de Statistique and an elected membership of the International Statistical Institute. He is associate editor for the journals Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and Econometrics and Statistics.

Thomas Verdebout is professor of mathematical statistics at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His main research interests are semi-parametric statistics, high-dimensional statistics, directional statistics and rank-based procedures. He has won an annual prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is associate editor for the journals Statistics and Probability Letters and Journal of Multivariate Analysis.