Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov Processes and Other Statistical Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lita da Silva, Joô. (Editor), Caeiro, Frederico. (Editor), Natr̀io, Isabel. (Editor), Braumann, Carlos A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics
• Subjects: Statistics.; Mathematical statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34904-1

This volume of the Selected Papers from Portugal is a product of the Seventeenth Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, held at the beautiful resort seaside city of Sesimbra, Portugal, from September 30 to October 3, 2009. It covers a broad scope of theoretical, methodological as well as ap...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Invited Sessions: Youden Square with Split Units (StanisBaw Franciszek Mejza and Shinji Kuriki)
• Likelihood and PLS Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: an Assessment of Sample Size, Skewness and Model Misspecification Effects (Manuel J. Vilares and Pedro S. Coelho)
• Part II Communications: A Parametric Cure Model with Covariates (Ana M. Abreu and Cristina S. Rocha)
• Survival Analysis Applied to the Study of Time from Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection to AIDS in Portugal (Marta Alves, Cristina S. Rocha and Maria Teresa Paixô).- A new Independence Test for VaR Violations (P. Araj͠o Santos and M. I. Fraga Alves)
• Discrimination Between Parametric Survival Models for Removal Times of Bird Carcasses in Scavenger Removal Trials at Wind Turbines Sites (Regina Bispo, Joana Bernardino, Tiago A. Marques and Dinis Pestana)
• Uniformity (M. F. Brilhante, M. Malva, S. Mendoncıa, D. Pestana, F. Sequeira and S. Velosa)
• Asymptotic Comparison at Optimal Levels of Minimum-Variance Reduced-Bias Tail Index Estimators (Frederico Caeiro and M. Ivette Gomes)
• Extremal Behavior of the Generalized Integer-valued Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process (Lus̕a Canto e Castro, Dulce Gomes and Maria da Graȧ Temido)
• Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times (Clara Carlos, Carlos A. Braumann and Patrc̕ia A. Filipe)
• Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data (Eunice Carrasquinha, M. Helena Gonȧlves and M. Salom ̌Cabral)
• Risk Assessment on Campylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal (Marta Castel-Branco, Marl̕ia Antunes, Patrc̕ia Inc̀io and Miguel Cardo)
• Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot.EXPOS (Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves)
• Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci (Cšar Correia, Nuno Sepl͠veda and Carlos Daniel Paulino)
• Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to Mathematics Education (Maria Eugňia Ferrô and Jos ̌G. Dias)
• Evaluating Discriminant Analysis Results (Ana Sousa Ferreira and Margarida Cardoso)
• Distribution of the Number of Losses in Busy-periods of MX /G/1/n Systems (Ft̀ima Ferreira, Antn̤io Pacheco and Helena Ribeiro)
• Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach (Patrc̕ia Ferreira Ramos, Manuel Cabral Morais and Antn̤io Pacheco)
• Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a new Independence Test (M. I. Fraga Alves and P. Araj͠o Santos)
• Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum for a Chaotic Economic Model (Ana Cristina Moreira Freitas)
• Adaptive Choice of Thresholds and the Bootstrap Methodology: An Empirical Study (M. Ivette Gomes, Fernanda Figueiredo and M. Manuela Neves)
• Distributional Properties of Generalized Threshold ARCH Models (E. Gonȧlves and N. Mendes-Lopes)
• Preliminary Results on Confidence Intervals for Open Bonus Malus (Gracinda R. Guerreiro, Joô T. Mexia and Maria F. Miguens)
• Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening (Carla Henriques, Ana Cristina Matos and Lus̕ Ferreira dos Santos)
• Circulatory System Diseases and Neoplasms Mortality on Older Portuguese Population: A Spatio-temporal Analysis by Age and Sex (Sandra Lagarto, Carla Nunes, Dulce Gomes and Maria Filomena Mendes)
• Absolute Diffusion Process: Sensitivity Measures (Manuela Larguinho, Jos ̌Carlos Dias and Carlos A. Braumann)
• Scaling Exponents in Heart Rate Variability (Argentina Leite, Maria Eduarda Silva and Ana Paula Rocha)
• Prediction of Dementia Patients: A Comparative Approach Using Parametric vs. non Parametric Classifiers (Joô Maroco, Dina Silva, Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre de Mendonȧ and Isabel Santana)
• Pareto Scale Mixtures (Miguel Martins Felgueiras)
• Fitting Johnson<U+0019>s SB distribution to Forest Tree Diameter (Ayana Mateus and Margarida Tom)̌
• On a Continuous Time Stock Price Model With two Mean Reverting Regimes (Pedro P. Mota)
• Generalized F Tests in Models With Random Perturbations: The Truncated Normal Case (Cľia Nunes, Dr̀io Ferreira, Sandra Ferreira and Joô T. Mexia)
• Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models and Neural Networks: Comparative Study in Medical Applications (Ana Luisa Papoila, Cristina Rocha, Carlos Geraldes and Patricia Xufre)
• Joint Regression Analysis and Incorporation of Environmental Variables in Stochastic Frontier Production Function: An Application to Experimental Data of Winter Rye (Dulce Gamito Pereira and Ana Sampaio)
• On the Maximum and Minimum of a Stationary Random Field (Lus̕a Pereira)
• Publication Bias and Meta-analytic Syntheses (D. Pestana, M. L. Rocha, R. Vasconcelos and S. Velosa)
• Self-perception of Health Status and Socio-economic Differences in the Use of Health Services (Alexandra Pinto, Victor Lobo, Fernando Baȯ̂ and Helena Bacelar-Nicolau).- Comparison of Modal Variables Using Multivariate Analysis (Isabel Pinto Doria, ℓurea Sousa, Helena Bacelar-Nicolau and Georges Le Calv)̌.- Disentangling the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation by Poisson Mixture Regressions (Leandro P. Pontes and Jos ̌G. Dias).-Simulation Study of the Calibration Technique in the Extremal Index Estimation (D. Prata Gomes, Joô T. Mexia and M. Manuela Neves).- Semi-parametric Building of the Optimal Screening Region in Supervised Classification (Sandra Ramos, Maria Antn̤ia Amaral Turkman and Marl̕ia Antunes).- An Application of Statistical Methods of Indirect Estimation and Projection of Internal Migration Flows Within the Portuguese Mainland (Maria FilomenaMendes, Antonio Caleiro, Sandra Lagarto and Filipe Ribeiro).- Robust Clustering Method for the Detection of Outliers: Using AIC to Select the Number of Clusters (Carla M. Santos-Pereira and Ana M. Pires).- HLA Allele and Haplotype Frequencies of the Portuguese Bone Marrow Donors Registry (Ricardo Sô Joô, Ana Luisa Papoila, Dr̀io Ligeiro and Hľder Trindade).- Independent Component Analysis for Extended Time Series in Climate Data (Fernando Sebastiô and Irene Oliveira).- Life Satisfaction: a MIMIC Approach With a Discrete Latent Variable (Patrc̕ia Serra, Jos ̌G. Dias and Maria de Ft̀ima Salgueiro).- An Application of MRMC ROC Curves on Radiology (Carina Silva-Fortes, Maria Antn̤ia Amaral Turkman, Luis Lanȧ, Ricardo Silva and Gonȧlo Marques).- Some Remarks About Gibbs Variable Selection Performance (Jl͠ia Teles and Maria Antn̤ia Amaral Turkman)
• Dependence of Multivariate Extremes (C. Viseu, L. Pereira, A.P. Martins and H. Ferreira).