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

By Frederico Caeiro and Jo Silva

Part I Invited Sessions: Youden Square with Split Units (Stanislaw 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 Paix?o).- A new Independence Test for VaR Violations (P. Ara?jo 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. Mendon?a, 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 (Lu?sa Canto e Castro, Dulce Gomes and Maria da Gra?a Temido).- Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times (Clara Carlos, Carlos A. Braumann and Patr?cia A. Filipe).- Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data (Eunice Carrasquinha, M. Helena Gon?alves and M. Salom? Cabral).- Risk Assessment on Campylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal (Marta Castel-Branco, Mar?lia Antunes, Patr?cia In?cio and Miguel Cardo).- Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot.EXPOS (Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves).- Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci (C?sar Correia, Nuno Sep?lveda and Carlos Daniel Paulino).- Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to Mathematics Education (Maria Eug?nia Ferr?o 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 (F?tima Ferreira, Ant?nio Pacheco and Helena Ribeiro).- Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach (Patr?cia Ferreira Ramos, Manuel Cabral Morais and Ant?nio Pacheco).- Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a new Independence Test (M. I. Fraga Alves and P. Ara?jo 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. Gon?alves and N. Mendes-Lopes).- Preliminary Results on Confidence Intervals for Open Bonus Malus (Gracinda R. Guerreiro, Jo?o T. Mexia and Maria F. Miguens).- Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening (Carla Henriques, Ana Cristina Matos and Lu?s 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 (Jo?o Maroco, Dina Silva, Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre de Mendon?a and Isabel Santana).- Pareto Scale Mixtures (Miguel Martins Felgueiras).- Fitting Johnson's SB distribution to Forest

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642446299
• ISBN13: 9783642446290
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"