Part I Statistical Theory: Default Priors Based on Pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model (Stefano Cabras)
Robustness, Dispersion and Local Functions in Data Depth (Mario Romanazzi and Claudio Agostinelli).- New Distribution-free Plotting Position Through an Approximation to the Beta Median (Pasquale Erto and Antonio Lepore)
On Gaussian Compound Poisson Type Limiting Likelihood Ratio Process (Sergueï Dachian and Ilia Negri)
Archetypal Symbolic Objects (M.R. D’Esposito, F. Palumbo, G. Ragozini)
Lorenz Zonoids and Dependence Measures: A Proposal (Emanuela Raffinetti, Paolo Giudici)
Algebraic Generation of Orthogonal Fractional Factorial Designs (Roberto Fontana and Giovanni Pistone)
Part II Methods for Time Series, Spatial and Functional Data: A Functional Spatio-Temporal Model for Geometric Shape Analysis (Lara Fontanella, Luigi Ippoliti and Pasquale Valentini)
Vector Threshold Moving Average Models: Model Specification and Invertibility (Marcella Niglio, Cosimo Damiano Vitale)
A Regionalization Method for Spatial Functional Data Based on Variogram Models: An Application on Environmental Data (Elvira Romano, Antonio Balzanella, and Rosanna Verde)
Spectral Decomposition of the AR Metric (Maria Iannario and Domenico Piccolo)
Nonlinear Nonstationary Model Building by Genetic Algorithms (Francesco Battaglia and Mattheos K. Protopapas)
Using the Autodependogram in Model Diagnostic Checking (Luca Bagnato and Antonio Punzo)
Part III Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis: Refined Estimation of a Light Tail: an Application to Environmental Data (M. Ivette Gomes, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues and Frederico Caeiro)
Model-based Classification of Clustered Binary Data with Non Ignorable Missing Values (Francesco Lagona)
A Model for Correlated Paired Comparison Data (Manuela Cattelan and Cristiano Varin)
Closed Skew Normal Stochastic Frontier Models for Panel Data (Roberto Colombi)
How far can Man go? (Isabel Fraga Alves, Laurens de Haan and Cláudia Neves)
Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: Challenges and Future Directions (Dimitris Rizopoulos)
A Class of Linear Regression Models for Imprecise Random Elements (Renato Coppi, Maria Brigida Ferraro and Paolo Giordani)
A Model-based Dimension Reduction Approach to Classification of Gene Expression Data (Luca Scrucca and Avner Bar-Hen)
Exploiting Multivariate Outcomes in Bayesian Inference for Causal Effects With Noncompliance (Alessandra Mattei, Fabrizia Mealli and Barbara Pacini)
Fuzzy Composite Indicators: An Application for Measuring Customer Satisfaction (Sergio Zani, Maria Adele Milioli, Isabella Morlini)
Part IV Survey Methodology and Official Statistics: Symmetric Association Measures in Effect-control Sampling (Riccardo Borgoni, Piero Quatto and Donata Marasini)
Spatial Misalignment Models for Small Area Estimation: A Simulation Study (Matilde Trevisani and Alan Gelfand)
Scrambled Response Models Based on Auxiliary Variables (Giancarlo Diana and Pier Francesco Perri)
Using Auxiliary Information and Nonparametric Methods in Weighting Adjustments (Emilia Rocco)
Open Source Integer Linear Programming Solvers for Error Localization in Numerical Data (Gianpiero Bianchi, Renato Bruni, Alessandra Reale)
Integrating Business Surveys: Guidelines and Principles Based on the Belgian Experience (Maria Caterina Bramati)
Part V Social Statistics and Demography: A Measure of Poverty Based on the Rasch Model (Maria Cristiana Martini and Cristiano Vanin)
Chronic Poverty in European Mediterranean Countries (Daria Mendola and Annalisa Busetta)
Do Union Formation and Childbearing Improve Subjective Well-being? An application of Propensity Score Matching to a Bulgarian Banel (Emiliano Sironi and Francesco C. Billari)
Health and Functional Status in Elderly Patients Living in Residential Facilities in Italy (Giulia Cavrini, Claudia Di Priamo, Lorella Sicuro, Alessandra Battisti, Alessandro Solipaca and Giovanni de Girolamo)
Dementia in the Elderly:. Health Consequences on Household Members (Egidi V., Salvatore M.A., Gargiulo L., Iannucci L., Sebastiani G., Tinto A.)
Asset Ownership of the Elderly Across Europe: A multilevel Latent Class Analysis to Segment Countries and Households (Omar Paccagnella and Roberta Varriale)
The Longevity Pattern in Emilia Romagna, Italy: A Spatio-temporal Analysis (Giulia Roli, Rossella Miglio, Rosella Rettaroli and Alessandra Samoggia)
Material Deprivation and Incidence of Lung Cancer: A Census Block Analysis (Laura Grisotto, Dolores Catelan and Annibale Biggeri)
Mining Administrative Health Databases for Epidemiological Purposes: A Case Study on Acute Myocardial Infarctions Diagnoses (Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni and Piercesare Secchi)
Part VI Economic Statistics and Econometrics: Fractional Integration Models for Italian Electricity Zonal Prices (Angelica Gianfreda and Luigi Grossi)
A Generalized Composite Index Based on the Non-Substitutability of Individual Indicators (Matteo Mazziotta and Adriano Pareto)
Evaluating the Efficiency of the Italian University Educational Processes Through Frontier Production Methods (Luigi Biggeri, Tiziana Laureti, Luca Secondi)
Modeling and Forecasting Realized Range Volatility (Massimiliano Caporin and Gabriel G. Velo)
Clusters and Equivalence Scales (Gustavo De Santis and Mauro Maltagliati)
The Determinants of Income Dynamics (Gustavo De Santis and Giambattista Salinari)
Benchmarking and Movement Preservation: Evidences From Real-life and Simulated Series (Tommaso Di Fonzo and Marco Marini)
Cumulation of Poverty Measures to Meet New Policy Needs (Vijay Verma, Francesca Gagliardi, Caterina Ferretti)
Long Memory in Integrated and Realized Variance (Eduardo Rossi and Paolo Santucci de Magistris)
Part I Statistical Theory: Default Priors Based on Pseudo-likelihoods for the Poisson-GPD Model (Stefano Cabras)
Robustness, Dispersion and Local Functions in Data Depth (Mario Romanazzi and Claudio Agostinelli).- New Distribution-free Plotting Position Through an Approximation to the Beta Median (Pasquale Erto and Antonio Lepore)
On Gaussian Compound Poisson Type Limiting Likelihood Ratio Process (Sergueï Dachian and Ilia Negri)
4.Statistical Approaches to Improving Trial Efficiency and Conduct. J.Pogue, P. J. Devereaux and S.Yusuf
5.Competing Risk and Survival Analysis. K.van Montfort, P.Fennema and W.Ghidey
6.Recent Developments in Group-Sequential Designs. J.M. S. Wason
7.Statistical Inference for Non-Inferiority of a Diagnostic Procedure Compared to an Alternative Procedure, Based on the Difference in Correlated Proportions from Multiple Raters. H.Saeki and T.Tango
8.Design and Analysis of Clinical Trial Simulations. K.Kuribayashi
9.Causal Effect Estimation and Dose Adjustment in Exposure-Response Relationship Analysis. J.Wang
10.Different Methods to Analyse Results of a Randomised Controlled Trial with More Than one Follow-up Measurement. J.W. R. Twisk
11.Statistical Methods for the Assessment of Clinical Relevance. M.Kieser
12.Statistical Considerations in the Use of Composite Endpoints in Time to Event Analyses. R.J. Cook and K.-A.Lee
13.Statistical Validation of Surrogate Markers in Clinical Trials. A.Alonso, G.Molenberghs and G.van Breukelen
14.Biomarker-Based Designs of Phase III Clinical Trials for Personalized Medicine. S.Matsui, T.Nonaka and Y.Choai
15.Dose-Finding Models for Two-Agent Combination Phase I Trials. A.Hirakawa and S.Matsui
16.Multi-State Models Used in Oncology Trials. B.Gaschler-Markefski, K.Schiefele, J.Hocke and F.Fleischer
17.Review of Designs for Accommodating Patients’ or Physicians’ Preferences in Randomized Controlled Trials. A.S. Ismaila and S.D. Walter
18.Dose Finding Methods in Oncology: From the Maximum Tolerated Dose to the Recommended Phase II Dose. X.Paoletti and A.Doussau
Preface
List of contributors
1.Statistical Models and Methods for Incomplete Data in Randomized Clinical Trials. M.A. McIsaac and R.J. Cook
Plant Sensitivity and Growth Curve Analysis of Elephant Foot Yam
Some remarks on pseudo panel data
Rates of convergence in CLT for two sample U-statistics in non iid case and multiphasic growth curve
Estimation of animal abundance through imperfectly characterizing signatures
Growth Curve of Elephant Foot Yam, One sided Estimation and Confidence Band
Interrelationship between Economic Growth and Income Inequality: The Indian Experience
Growth Curve reconstruction in Damaged Experiment via Nonlinear Calibration
Growth Curve of Phase change in presence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Declining patterns of average height of adult Indians between 20-49 years: State wise trends and influence of socioeconomic factors
Growth Model of some Vernacular Word Usage during Political Transition
Some Further Results on Nonuniform Rates of Convergence to Normality in Finite Population with applications
Unbounded Growth Model for Word Frequencies in Political Transition
A Statistical Analysis of micro RNA: classification, identification and conservation based on structure and function
Longitudinal Growth of Elephant Foot Yam and Some Characterization Theorems- Optimal Choice of Small Regular Shapes for Accidentally Damaged Tessellation
Plant Sensitivity and Growth Curve Analysis of Elephant Foot Yam
Some remarks on pseudo panel data
Rates of convergence in CLT for two sample U-statistics in non iid case and multiphasic growth curve
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
Portfolio optimisation via graphical least squares estimation (Saeed Aldahmani, Hongsheng Dai, Qiao-Zhen Zhang and Marialuisa Restaino)
Change of Measure Applications in Nonparametric Statistics (Mayer Alvo)
Choosing between weekly and monthly volatility drivers within a Double Asymmetric GARCH-MIDAS model (Alessandra Amendola, Vincenzo Candila and Giampiero M. Gallo)
Goodness-of-fit test for the baseline hazard rate (Anfriani, A. and Butucea, C. and Gerardin E. and Jeantheau, T. and Lecleire U.)
Permutation tests for multivariate stratified data: synchronized or unsynchronized permutations? (Rosa Arboretti, Eleonora Carrozzo and Luigi Salmaso)
An extension of the dgLARS method to high-dimensional relative risk regression models (Luigi Augugliaro, Ernst C. Wit and Angelo M. Mineo)
A kernel goodness-of-fit test for maximum likelihood density estimates of normal mixtures. (Dimitrios Bagkavos and Prakash N. Patil)- Robust estimation of sparse signal with unknown sparsity cluster value (Eduard Belitser, Nurzhan Nurushev, and Paulo Serra)
Test for sign effect in intertemporal choice experiments: a nonparametric solution (Stefano Bonnini and Isabel Maria Parra Oller)
Nonparametric first-order analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal point processes (M.I. Borrajo, I. Fuentes-Santos and W. González-Manteiga)
Bayesian nonparametric prediction with multi-sample data (Federico Camerlenghi, Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster)
Algorithm for Automatic Description of Historical Series of Forecast Error in Electrical Power Grid (Gaia Ceresa, Andrea Pitto, Diego Cirio and Nicolas Omont)
Linear wavelet estimation in regression with additive and multiplicative noise (Christophe Chesneau, Junke Kou and Fabien Navarro)
Speeding up algebraic-based sampling via permutations (Francesca Romana Crucinio and Roberto Fontana)
Obstacle Problems For Nonlocal Operators: A Brief Overview (Donatella Danielli, Arshak Petrosyan, and Camelia A. Pop)
Low and high resonance components restoration in multichannel data (Daniela De Canditiis and Italia De Feis)
Kernel circular deconvolution density estimation (Marco Di Marzio, Stefania Fensore, Agnese Panzera, Charles C. Taylor)
Asymptotic for Relative Frequency when Population is Driven by Arbitrary Unknown Evolution (Silvano Fiorin)
Semantic keywords clustering to optimize Text Ads campaigns (Pietro Fodra, Emmanuel Pasquet, Guillaume Mohr, Bruno Goutorbe, and Matthieu Cornec)
A Note on Robust Estimation of the Extremal Index (M. Ivette Gomes, Cristina Miranda and Manuela Souto de Miranda)
Multivariate permutation tests for ordered categorical data (Huiting Huang, Fortunato Pesarin, Rosa Arboretti, Riccardo Ceccato)
Smooth nonparametric survival analysis (Dimitrios Ioannides and Dimitrios Bagkavos)
Density estimation using multiscale local polynomial transforms (Maarten Jansen)
On Sensitivity of Metalearning: An Illustrative Study for Robust Regression (Jan Kalina)
Function-parametric empirical processes, projections and unitary operators (Estáte Khmaladze)
Rank-based Analysis of Multivariate Data in Factorial Designs and Its Implementation in R (Maximilian Kiefel and Arne C. Bathke)
Tests for Independence Involving Spherical Data (Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Simos Meintanis and Thomas Verdebout)
Interval-Wise Testing of Functional Data Defined on Two-dimensional Domains(Patrick B. Langthaler, Alessia Pini and Arne C. Bathke)
Assessing Data Support for the Simplifying Assumption in Bivariate Conditional Copulas (Evgeny Levi and Radu V. Craiu)
Semiparametric weighting estimations of a zero-inflated Poisson regression with missing in covariates (Lukusa, M.T. and Phoa, F.K.H.)
The Discrepancy Method for Extremal Index Estimation (Natalia Markovich)
Correction for optimisation bias in structured sparse high-dimensional variable selection (Bastien Marquis and Maarten Jansen)
United Statistical Algorithms and Data Science: An Introduction To The Principles (Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay)
The Halfspace Depth Characterization Problem (Stanislav Nagy)
A component multiplicative error model for realized volatility measures (Antonio Naimoli and Giuseppe Storti)
Asymptotically distribution-free goodness-of-fit tests for testing independence in contingency tables of large dimensions (Thuong T. M. Nguyen)
Incorporating model uncertainty in the construction of bootstrap prediction intervals for functional time series (Efstathios Paparoditis and Han Lin Shang)
Measuring and Estimating Overlap of Distributions: A comparison of approaches from various disciplines (Judith H. Parkinson and Arne C. Bathke)
Bootstrap confidence intervals for sequences of missing values in multivariate time series (Maria Lucia Parrella, Giuseppina Albano, Michele La Rocca and Cira Perna)
On Parametric Estimation of Distribution Tails (Igor Rodionov)
An empirical comparison of global and local functional depths (Carlo Sguera and Rosa E. Lillo)
AutoSpec: Detecting Exiguous Frequency Changes in Time Series (David S. Stoffer)
Bayesian quantile regression in differential equation models (Qianwen Tan and Subhashis Ghosal)
Predicting plant endemicity based on herbarium data: application to French data (Jessica Tressou, Thomas Haevermans and Liliane Bel)
Monte Carlo Permutation Tests for Assessing Spatial Dependence at Different Scales (Craig Wang and Reinhard Furrer)
Introduction to independent counterfactuals (Marcin Wolski)
The Potential for Nonparametric Joint Latent Class Modeling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data (Ningshan Zhang and Jeffrey S. Simonoff)
To Rank or to Permute when Comparing an Ordinal Outcome Between Two Groups While Adjusting for a Covariate? (Georg Zimmermann)
Preface
Portfolio optimisation via graphical least squares estimation (Saeed Aldahmani, Hongsheng Dai, Qiao-Zhen Zhang and Marialuisa Restaino)
Change of Measure Applications in Nonparametric Statistics (Mayer Alvo)
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