Quantitative social science research has been expanding due to the ava- ability of computers and data over the past few decades. Yet the textbooks and supplements for researchers do not adequately highlight the revolution created by the R software 2] and graphics system. R is fast becoming the l- gua franca of quantitative research with some 2000 free specialized packages, where the latest versions can be downloaded in seconds. Many packages such as "car" 1] developed by social scientists are popular among all scientists. An early 2009 article 3] in the New York Times notes that...
Quantitative social science research has been expanding due to the ava- ability of computers and data over the past few decades. Yet the textbooks and...
This book arises as the natural continuation of the International Spring School "Advances and Challenges in Space-Time modelling of Natural Events," which took place in Toledo (Spain) in March 2010. This Spring School above all focused on young researchers (Master students, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers) in academics, extra-university research and the industry who are interested in learning about recent developments, new methods and applications in spatial statistics and related areas, and in exchanging ideas and findings with colleagues.
This book arises as the natural continuation of the International Spring School "Advances and Challenges in Space-Time modelling of Natural Events,...
In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades. In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, Looking Back, honoring his contributions to applied and theoretical psychometrics and statistics. Looking Back attracted a large audience that came to pay homage to Paul Holland and to hear presentations by colleagues who worked with him in special ways over those 40] years. This book contains papers based on these presentations, as well as vignettes provided by Paul Holland before each section.
The papers in this book attest...
In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades. In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, ...
Copulas are mathematical objects that fully capture the dependence structure among random variables and hence offer great flexibility in building multivariate stochastic models. This book provides an account of essential aspects of copula models. It collects the extended versions of 6 talks selected from papers presented at the workshop in Warsaw.
Copulas are mathematical objects that fully capture the dependence structure among random variables and hence offer great flexibility in building mult...
The "Stats in the Chateau" summer school was held at the CRC chateau on the campus of HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France, from August 31 to September 4, 2009. This event was organized jointly by faculty members of three French academic institutions ENSAE ParisTech, the Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech, and HEC Paris which cooperate through a scientific foundation devoted to the decision sciences.
The scientific content of the summer school was conveyed in two courses, one by Laurent Cavalier (Universite Aix-Marseille I) on "Ill-posed Inverse Problems," and one by Victor Chernozhukov...
The "Stats in the Chateau" summer school was held at the CRC chateau on the campus of HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas, France, from August 31 to September...
In June 2010, a conference, Probability Approximations and Beyond, was held at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in honor of pioneering mathematician Louis Chen. Chen made the first of several seminal contributions to the theory and application of Stein's method. One of his most important contributions has been to turn Stein's concentration inequality idea into an effective tool for providing error bounds for the normal approximation in many settings, and in particular for sums of random variables exhibiting only local dependence. This conference attracted a large audience...
In June 2010, a conference, Probability Approximations and Beyond, was held at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in honor of pione...
This volume contains a selection of chapters based on papers to be presented at the Fifth Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy Symposium. The symposium will be held June 13-15th at Penn State University. Modern astronomical research faces a vast range of statistical issues which have spawned a revival in methodological activity among astronomers. The Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V conference will bring astronomers and statisticians together to discuss methodological issues of common interest. Time series analysis, image analysis, Bayesian methods, Poisson processes,...
This volume contains a selection of chapters based on papers to be presented at the Fifth Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy Symposium. The sy...
This volume contains a selection of chapters base on papers presented at the Fourth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials. The symposium was held in 2010 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. It featured keynote lectures by David DeMets and Susan Ellenberg and 16 invited presentations by other prominent researchers. The papers contained in this volume encompass recent methodological advances in several important clinical trials research, such as biomarkers, meta-analyses, sequential and adaptive clinical...
This volume contains a selection of chapters base on papers presented at the Fourth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials. The symposium...
This proceedings volume contains nine selected papers that were presented in the International Symposium in Statistics, 2012 held at Memorial University from July 16 to 18. These nine papers cover three different areas for longitudinal data analysis, four dealing with longitudinal data subject to measurement errors, four on incomplete longitudinal data analysis, and the last one for inferences for longitudinal data subject to outliers. Unlike in the independence setup, the inferences in measurement errors, missing values, and/or outlier models, are not adequately discussed in the longitudinal...
This proceedings volume contains nine selected papers that were presented in the International Symposium in Statistics, 2012 held at Memorial Universi...
Presenting research reported at SORR2011 in Xiamen, China in 2011, this book offers 19 contributions on the theory of stochastic orders, stochastic comparison of order statistics, stochastic orders in reliability and risk analysis and applications.
Presenting research reported at SORR2011 in Xiamen, China in 2011, this book offers 19 contributions on the theory of stochastic orders, stochastic co...
