Chapter 1: Stories Of Successful Careers In Psychometrics And What We Can Learn From Them
Chapter 2: Developing A Concept Map For Rasch Measurement Theory
Chapter 3: Person Parameter Estimation For IRT Models Of Forced-Choice Data: Merits And Perils Of Pseudo-Likelihood Approaches
Chapter 4: An Extended Item Response Tree Model For Wording Effects In Mixed-Format Scales
Chapter 5: The Four-Parameter Normal Ogive Model With Response Time
Chapter 6: A Bayesian Graphical And Probabilistic Proposal For Bias Analysis
Chapter 7: Comparing Hyperprior Distributions To Estimate Variance Components For Interrater Reliability Coefficients
Chapter 8: A Hierarchical Joint Model For Bounded Response Time And Response Accuracy
Chapter 9: Selecting A Presmoothing Model In Kernel Equating
Chapter 10: Practical Implementation Of Test Equating Using R
Chapter 11: Predictive Validity Under Partial Observability
Chapter 12: Multiple-Group Propensity Score Inverse Weights Trimming And Its Impact On Covariate Balance And On Bias In Treatment Effect Estimation
Chapter 13: Procrustes Penalty Function For Matching Matrices To Targets With Its Applications
Chapter 14: Factor Score Estimation From The Perspective Of Item Response Theory
Chapter 15: On The Precision Matrix In The Semi-High Dimensional Settings
Chapter 16: The Performance Of The Modified Continuous A-Stratification Indices In Computerized Adaptive Testing
Chapter 17: Constant CSEM Achieved Through Scale Transformation And Adaptive Testing
Chapter 18: Synergized Bootstrapping: The Whole Is Faster Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Chapter 19: Synchronized Time Profile With Applications To Nearest Neighbor Classification
Chapter 20: Topic Modeling Of Constructed-Response Answers On Social Study Assessments
Chapter 21: Impact Of Measurement Bias On Diagnostic Clinical Measures
Chapter 22: Reliability And Structure Validity Of A Teacher Pedagogical Competencies Scale: A Case Study From Chile
Chapter 23: Psychoperiscope
Chapter 24: Modeling Household Food Insecurity With A Polytomous Rasch Model
Chapter 25: Classical Perspectives Of Controlling Acquiescence With Balanced Scales
Chapter 26: Testing Heterogeneity In Inter-Rater Reliability
Chapter 27: An Application Of Regularized Extended Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Redundancy Analysis Via Generalized Estimating Equations To The Study Of Co-Occurring Substance Use Among US Adults
Chapter 28: Permutation Test Of Regression Coefficients In Social Network Data Analysis
Index
Chapter 1: Stories Of Successful Careers In Psychometrics And What We Can Learn From Them
Chapter 2: Developing A Concept Map For Rasch Measurement Theory
Chapter 3: Person Parameter Estimation For IRT Models Of Forced-Choice Data: Merits And Perils Of Pseudo-Likelihood Approaches
Part I Invited Talks, H. Dong and M. K. Nakayama, A Tutorial on Quantile Estimation via Monte Carlo
L. Herrmann and C. Schwab, Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction
B. L. Nelson, Selecting the Best Simulated System: Thinking Differently About an Old Problem
F. Pillichshammer, Discrepancy of Digital Sequences: New Results on a Classical QMC Topic
Part II Regular Talks, L. Bian, T. Cui, G. Sofronov and J. Keith, Network Structure Change Point Detection by Posterior Predictive Discrepancy
M. Billaud-Friess, A. Macherey, A. Nouy and C. Prieur, Stochastic Methods for Solving High-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations
N. Binder and A. Keller, Massively Parallel Construction of Radix Tree Forests for the Efficient Sampling of Discrete or Piecewise Constant Probability Distributions
Y. Ding, F. J. Hickernell, and L. A. J. Rugama, An Adaptive Algorithm Employing Continuous Linear Functionals
A. Ebert, P. Kritzer and D. Nuyens, Constructing QMC Finite Element Methods for Elliptic PDEs with Random Coefficients by a Reduced CBC Construction
R. El Haddad, J. El Maalouf, C. Lecot and P. L’Ecuyer, Sudoku Latin, Square Sampling for Markov Chain Simulation
T. Hartung, K. Jansen, H. Leovey, and J. Volmer, Avoiding the Sign Problem in Lattice Field Theory
R. Hofer, On Hybrid Point Sets Stemming from Halton-Type Hammersley Point Sets and Polynomial Lattice Point Sets
M. Huber, Robust Estimation of the Mean with Bounded Relative Standard Deviation
H. Hult, P. Nyquist and C. Ringqvist, Infinite Swapping Algorithm for Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines
I. Iscoe and A. Kreinin, Sensitivity Ranks by Monte Carlo
R. Kritzinger and F. Pillichshammer, Lower Bounds on the Lp Discrepancy of Digital NUT Sequences
H. Leovey and W. Romisch, Randomized QMC Methods for Mixed-Integer Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with Application to Electricity Optimization
A. F. Lopez-Lopera, F. Bachoc, N. Durrande, J. Rohmer, D. Idier and O. Roustant, Approximating Gaussian Process Emulators with Linear Inequality Constraints and Noisy Observations via MC and MCMC
E. Løvbak, G. Samaey and S. Vandewalle, A Multilevel Monte Carlo Asymptotic-Preserving Particle Method for Kinetic Equations in the Diffusion Limit
D. Mandel and G. Okten, Randomized Global Sensitivity Analysis and Model Robustness
A. Petersson, Rapid Covariance-Based Sampling of Linear SPDE Approximations in the Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
A. Stein and A. Barth, A Multilevel Monte Carlo Algorithm for Parabolic Advection-Diffusion Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients
T. A. Stepanyuk, Estimates For Logarithmic and Riesz Energies Of Spherical t-Designs
Y. Suzuki and D. Nuyens, Rank-1 Lattices and Higher-Order Exponential Splitting for the Time-Dependent Schr¨odinger Equation
C. von Hallern and A. Roßler, An Analysis of the Milstein Scheme for SPDEs without a Commutative Noise Condition
Fei Xie, M. B. Giles, and Zhijian He, QMC Sampling from Empirical Datasets
Part I Invited Talks, H. Dong and M. K. Nakayama, A Tutorial on Quantile Estimation via Monte Carlo
L. Herrmann and C. Schwab, Multilevel Quasi-Monte Carlo Uncertainty Quantification for Advection-Diffusion-Reaction
B. L. Nelson, Selecting the Best Simulated System: Thinking Differently About an Old Problem
1. Applied Bayesian Modeling for Assessment of Interpretation Uncertainty in Spatial Domain
2. Computing Robust Statistics via an EM Algorithm
3. Determining Risk Factors of Antenatal Care Attendance and its Frequency in Bangladesh: An Application of Count Regression Analysis
4. On Propensity Score Methodology
5. Asking Good Questions to Understand Voluntary Enrolments in Mathematics
PART II. Agricultural Statistics and Policy Analysis
6. Modeling for Prospect of Aman Rice Production in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
7. Impacts and Determinants of Adoption in River-based Tilapia Cage Culture
8. Policy into Practice; Statistics the Forgotten Gatekeeper
9. Nutrient Loading in the River Systems around Major Cities in Bangladesh: a Quantitative Estimate with Consequences and Potential Recycling Options
10. Analysing Informal Milk Supply Chains Data to Identify Seasonal Occurrences of Antibiotic Residues
Part III. Data Science and Image Processing Statistics
11. Detection of Vegetation in Enviromental Repeat Photography: A New Algorithmic Approach in Data Science
12. Can Data Fusion increase the Performance of Action Detection in the Dark?
13. Data privacy and Security in the Cloud
14. Evaluating Faster-RCNN and YOLOv3 for Target Detection in Multi-sensor Data
15. Wavelet-based Quantile Density Function Estimation under Random Censorship
Part IV. Health Statistics and Social Policy
16. Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease among Elderly People in Different Communities
17. Finite Mixture Modelling Approach to Identify Factors Affecting Children ever Born for 15-49 Year Old Women in Asian Country
18. An Assessment of Influencing Factors for Motherhood During Childhood in Bangladesh Using Factor Analysis and Logistic Regression Methods
19. Effect of Women’s Education on Skilled Birth Attendants in South and South East Asia: A Cross-country assessment on Sustainable Development Goal 3.1
Part V. SMALL Area Estimation and Spatial Microsimulation
20. Estimation of Child Undernutrition at Disaggregated Administrative Tiers of a North-Eastern District of Bangladesh: An Application of Small Area Estimation Method
21. Using a Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model for Australia to Estimate the Impact of an External Shock on Farmer Incomes
Part VI. Business Analytics and Managements Policy Analysis
22. A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen
23. Finding Significant Determinants and Impacts of Farm-Level Integrated Pest Management Practices Using Statistical Tools
24. Consumers Adoption Behavior Prediction through Technology Acceptance Model and Machine Learning Models
25. Shaping the Future of Multidimensional Project Management in Re-Tail Industry Using Statistical and Big-Data Theories
26. Technical Efficiency and Value Chain Analysis of Potato in a South-East Asian Country
27. Modelling and Analysis of Computer Experiments using a Simple Pendulum Model
Part I. Applied Statistics and Bayesian Modeling
1. Applied Bayesian Modeling for Assessment of Interpretation Uncertainty in Spatial Domain
2. Computing Robust Statistics via an EM Algorithm
Khalid Hattaf: Viral Immunology: Modeling and Analysis
Divine Wanduku, C. Newman O. Jegede, and Broderick Oluyede: Modeling the Stochastic Dynamics of Influenza Epidemics with Vaccination Control, and the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Model Parameters
W.P.T.M. Wickramaarachchi and S.S. Nishantha Perera: A Two-Dimensional Dynamical System for Local Transmission of Dengue with Time Invariant Mosquito Density
A.O. Egonmwan and Daniel Okuonghae: Mathematical Analysis of a Tuberculosis Model with Imperfect Vaccine
A. Omame, Daniel Okuonghae, and Simeon Chioma Inyama: A Mathematical Study of a Model for HPV with Two High Risk Strains
Ozlem Ozturk Mizrak, Cihan Mizrak, Ardak Kashkynbayev and Yang Kuang: Can Fractional Differentiation Improve Data Fitting Ability of a Prostate Cancer Model under Intermittent Androgen Suppression Therapy?
Cinzia Colapinto, Davide La Torre, Danilo Liuzzi, and Aymeric Vié: Towards the Realization of the Europe 2020 Agenda for Economic Growth in the European Union: An Analysis based on Goal Programming
Flaviano Battelli, Michal Feckan: On the Poincaré–Andronov–Melnikov Method for Modelling of Grazing Periodic Solutions in Discontinuous Systems
Kolade M. Owolabi and Hemen Dutta: Modeling and Analysis of Predation System with Nonlocal and Nonsingular Operator
Devendra Kumar and Jagdev Singh: New Aspects of Fractional Epidemiological Model for Computer Viruses with Mittag–Leffler Law
Kolade M. Owolabi: Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Ecological Models with Nonlocal and Nonsingular Fractional Derivative
Khalid Hattaf: Viral Immunology: Modeling and Analysis
Divine Wanduku, C. Newman O. Jegede, and Broderick Oluyede: Modeling the Stochastic Dynamics of Influenza Epidemics with Vaccination Control, and the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Model Parameters
W.P.T.M. Wickramaarachchi and S.S. Nishantha Perera: A Two-Dimensional Dynamical System for Local Transmission of Dengue with Time Invariant Mosquito Density
Comparison of proposals of transformation of nominants into stimulants on the example of financial ratios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Silhouette index as clustering evaluation tool
The Role of Discretization of Continuous Variables in SocioEconomic Classification Models on the Example of Logistic Regression Models and Artificial Neural Networks
Intuitionistic fuzzy synthetic measure for ordinal data
Improving Classification Accuracy of Ensemble Learning for Symbolic Data Trough Neural Networks’ Feature Extraction
Applications in Finance
Inequality restricted least squares (IRLS) model of real estate prices
Application of Hill estimator to assess extreme risks in the metals market
Segmentation of Enterprises on the Basis of Their Duration Using Survival Trees. Results of an Analysis for Legal Persons and Organizational Entities without Legal Personality in the Łódzkie Voivodship
Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction with the Use of the Logit Leaf Model
The impact of longevity on a valuation of long-term investments returns: the case of selected European countries
Applications in Economics.-Sustainable Development and Green Economy in the European Union Countries – statistical analysis
The review of indicators of data quality in intra-Community trade in goods. The choice of an indicator and its effect on the ranking of countries
Development of ICT in Poland in Comparison with the European Union Countries – Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis in Causal Mediation Effects for TAM Model
Applications in Social Problems
Prentice-Williams-Peterson models in the assessment of the influence of the characteristics of the unemployed on the intensity of subsequent registrations in the labour office
Right-skewed distribution of features and the identification problem of the financial autonomy of local administrative units
Multi-Criteria Rankings with Interdependent Criteria: Case of EU Countries on Their Way to Healthy Lives and Well-Being
The comparison of income distributions for women and men in the European Union countries
Common stochastic mortality trends for multiple European populations
Impact of the selected factors on the men and women wages in Poland in 2014. The conjoint analysis application
Preface
Methods
Comparison of proposals of transformation of nominants into stimulants on the example of financial ratios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
1. Computational Issues Of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of The Skew-T Distribution And A Proposal For The Initialization Of Numerical Optimization - by Adelchi Azzalini (University of Padua, Italy) and Mahdi Salehi (University of Neyshabur, Iran)
2. Modelling Earthquakes: Characterizing Inter-Arrival Times And Magnitude - by Christophe Ley (Ghent University, Belgium) and Rosaria Simone (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy)
3. Multivariate Order Statistics Induced By Ordering Linear Combinations Of Components Of Multivariate Elliptical Random Vectors - by Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Roohollah Roozegar (Yasouj University, Iran), Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) and Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
4. Spatial Interpolation Of Extreme PM1 Values Using Copulas - by Alfred Stein, Fakhereh Alidoost and Vera van Zoest (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
5. Distributional Aspects Of The Condition Number From A Unified Complex Wishart Setting - by Johannes Ferreira and Andriëtte Bekker (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
6. Weighted Bivariate Pólya-Aeppli Type Ii Distributions - by Claire Geldenhuys and René Ehlers (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
7. On The Distribution Of Linear Combinations Of Chi-Square Random Variables - by Carlos A. Coelho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
8. Constructing Multivariate Distributions Using The Dirichlet As A Baseline - by Seite Makgai (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Mohammad Arashi (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran), Daan de Waal (University of the Free State), and Andriëtte Bekker (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
9. Evaluating Risk Measures Using The Normal Mean-Variance Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution - by Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Wan-Lun Wang (Feng Chia University, Taiwan), Tsung-I Lin (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
10. On High-Dimensional Multivariate Bayesian Geostatistics - by Sudipto Banerjee (University of California, USA)
11. On Improving The Performance Of Logistic Regression Analysis Via Extreme Ranking - by Hani M. Samawi (Georgia Southern University, USA)
12. Optimal Sample Size Allocation For Multi-Level Stress Testing With Extreme Value Regression Under Time Censoring - by Ping Shing Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong),Hon Yiu So (University of Waterloo, Canada), Hon Keung Tony Ng (Southern Methodist University, USA) and Wei Gao (Northeast Normal University, China)
13. Robust Mixtures Of Scale Mixtures In The Exponential Family - by Frans Kanfer and Sollie Millard (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
14. Variable Selection Of Interval-Censored Failure Time Data - by Tony Sun (University of Missouri, USA)
15. On The Design Of A Platform Trial For The Treatment Of Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection By Fecal Microbiota Transplantation - by Christine H. Lee (Royal Jubilee Hospital, Canada), Dina Kao (University of Alberta, Canada), Theodore Steiner (University of Vancouver, Canada), Augustine Wigle (University of Guelph, Canada) and Peter T. Kim (University of Guelph, Canada)
16. Recent Advances In Bayesian Adaptive Designs And Applications - by J. Jack Lee (University of Texas, USA)
17. Generalizability Theory For Clinician-Rated Outcomes - by Joseph C. Cappelleri (Executive Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc)
18. Simultaneous Variable Selection And Estimation In Generalized Semiparametric Mixed Effect Modeling Of Longitudinal Data - by Mozhgan Taavoni and Mohammad Arashi (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran)
19. Generalized Rayleigh-Exponential-Weibull Distribution and its Application to Modelling of Progressive Type-I Interval Censored Data - by Ding-Geng Chen (University of Pretoria) and Y. L. Lio (University of South Dakota)
20. Applications Of Spatial Statistics In Poverty Alleviation In China - by Yong Ge (State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China)
21. Using Improved Robust Estimators In Semiparametric Models For High Dimensional Data - by Mahdi Roozbeh and Mina Norouzirad (Semnan University, Iran)
22. GMM marginal models with time dependent covariates - by Elsa Vazquez (Arizona State University) and Jeffrey R Wilson (Arizona State University)
1. Computational Issues Of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of The Skew-T Distribution And A Proposal For The Initialization Of Numerical Optimization - by Adelchi Azzalini (University of Padua, Italy) and Mahdi Salehi (University of Neyshabur, Iran)
2. Modelling Earthquakes: Characterizing Inter-Arrival Times And Magnitude - by Christophe Ley (Ghent University, Belgium) and Rosaria Simone (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy)
3. Multivariate Order Statistics Induced By Ordering Linear Combinations Of Components Of Multivariate Elliptical Random Vectors - by Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Roohollah Roozegar (Yasouj University, Iran), Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) and Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Chapter 2 - Statistical test and sample size calculation
Part II : Sample size calculation
Chapter 3 - Comparison of two groups for normally distributed outcomes and test for difference or superiority.-Chapter 4 - Comparison of two groups for continuous and ordered categorical outcomes and test for difference or superiority
Chapter 5 - Comparison of two groups for binary outcomes and test for difference and superiority
Chapter 6 - Comparison of two groups for time-to-event outcomes and test for differences or superiority
Chapter 7 - Comparison of more than two groups and test for difference
Chapter 8 - Comparison of two groups and test for non-inferiority
Chapter 9 - Comparison of three groups in the gold standard non-inferiority design
Chapter 10 - Comparison of two groups for normally distributed outcomes and test for equivalence
Chapter 11 - Multiple comparisons
Chapter 12 - Assessment of safety
Chapter 13 - Cluster-randomized trials
Chapter 14 - Multi-regional trials
Chapter 15 - Integrated planning of phase II/III drug development programs
Part IIIA: Blinded sample size recalculation in internal pilot study designs
Chapter 18 - Background and notation
Chapter 19 - A general approach for controlling the type I error rate for blinded sample size recalculation.-Chapter 20 - Comparison of two groups for normally distributed outcomes and test for difference or superiority
Chapter 21 - Comparison of two groups for binary outcomes and test for difference or superiority
Chapter 22 - Comparison of two groups for normally distributed outcomes and test for non-inferiority
Chapter 23 - Comparison of two groups for binary outcomes and test for non-inferiority
Chapter 24 - Comparison of two groups for normally distributed outcomes and test for equivalence.-Chapter 25 - Regulatory and operational aspects
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