This book presents an overview of recent developments in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Written by active researchers in these emerging areas, it is intended to give graduate students and new researchers an idea of where the frontiers of biostatistics and bioinformatics are as well as a forum to learn common techniques in use, so that they can advance the fields via developing new techniques and new results. Extensive references are provided so that researchers can follow the threads to learn more comprehensively what the literature is and to conduct their own research. In particulars, the...

Thisvolumecontains Raymond J.Carroll'sresearch and commentary on its impactby leading statisticians. Each of theseven main partsfocuseson a key researcharea: Measurement Error, Transformation and Weighting, Epidemiology, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression for Independent Data, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression for Dependent Data, Robustness, and other work. The seven subject areas reviewedin this book were chosen by Ray himself, as were the articles representing eacharea. The commentaries not only review Ray's work, but are alsofilled with historyand anecdotes. Raymond J....

Thisvolumecontains Raymond J.Carroll'sresearch and commentary on its impactby leading statisticians. Each of theseven main partsfocuseson a key researcharea: Measurement Error, Transformation and Weighting, Epidemiology, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression for Independent Data, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Regression for Dependent Data, Robustness, and other work. The seven subject areas reviewedin this book were chosen by Ray himself, as were the articles representing eacharea. The commentaries not only review Ray s work, but are alsofilled with historyand anecdotes. Raymond J....