Ebook: COMPSTAT: Proceedings in Computational Statistics 14th Symposium held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2000

This book contains the keynote, invited and full contributed papers presented at COMPSTAT 2000, held in Utrecht. The papers range over all aspects of the link between statistical theory and applied statistics, with special attention for developments in the area of official statistics. The papers have been thoroughly refereed.

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This book contains the keynote, invited and full contributed papers presented at COMPSTAT 2000, held in Utrecht. The papers range over all aspects of the link between statistical theory and applied statistics, with special attention for developments in the area of official statistics. The papers have been thoroughly refereed.

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This book contains the keynote, invited and full contributed papers presented at COMPSTAT 2000, held in Utrecht. The papers range over all aspects of the link between statistical theory and applied statistics, with special attention for developments in the area of official statistics. The papers have been thoroughly refereed.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The broad role of multiple imputation in statistical science....Pages 3-14
Official Statistics: an estimation strategy for the IT-era....Pages 15-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Bayesian model selection methods for nonnested models....Pages 29-40
Spatio-temporal hierarchical modeling of an infectious disease from (simulated) count data....Pages 41-52
GBMs: GLMs with bilinear terms....Pages 53-64
Generalized calibration and application to weighting for non-response....Pages 65-76
Methodological issues in data mining....Pages 77-85
Practical data mining in a large utility company....Pages 87-95
HGLMs for analysis of correlated non-normal data....Pages 97-107
Bootstrapping impulse responses in VAR analyses....Pages 109-119
An application of TRAMO-SEATS; model selection and out-of-sample performance. The Swiss CPI series....Pages 121-130
Spreadsheets as tools for statistical computing and statistics education....Pages 131-138
An algorithm for deepest multiple regression....Pages 139-150
Non-proportional hazards models in survival analysis....Pages 151-160
A spatio-temporal analysis of a field trial....Pages 161-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Principal component logistic regression....Pages 175-180
Sieve bootstrap prediction intervals....Pages 181-186
Clustering by maximizing a fuzzy classification maximum likelihood criterion....Pages 187-192
Tree-based algorithms for missing data imputation....Pages 193-198
MiPy: a system for generating multiple imputations....Pages 199-204
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
A linear approximation to the wild bootstrap in specification testing....Pages 205-210
The size of the largest nonidentifiable outlier as a performance criterion for multivariate outlier identification: the case of high-dimensional data....Pages 211-216
The influence of data generation and imputation methods on the bias of factor analysis of rating scale data....Pages 217-222
Model on a population and prediction on another one: a generalized discriminant rule....Pages 223-228
Disclosure control on multi-way tables by means of the shuttle algorithm: extensions and experiments....Pages 229-234
An MLE strategy for combining optimally pruned decision trees....Pages 235-240
Semi-parametric models for data mining....Pages 241-246
Preliminary estimation of ARFIMA models....Pages 247-252
A collection of applets for visualizing statistical concepts....Pages 253-258
Non-parametric regression and density estimation under control of modality....Pages 259-264
SLICE: generalised software for statistical data editing and imputation....Pages 265-270
Improved PCB inspection: computational issues....Pages 271-276
Optimization of the antithetic Gibbs sampler for Gaussian Markov random fields....Pages 277-282
Computing zonoid trimmed regions of bivariate data sets....Pages 283-288
Outlier resistant estimators for canonical correlation analysis....Pages 289-294
Graphical and phase space models for univariate time series....Pages 295-300
The use of the Tweedie distribution in statistical modelling....Pages 301-306
Predictive dimension: an alternative definition to embedding dimension....Pages 307-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-318
Post-stratification to correct for nonresponse: classification of ZIP code areas....Pages 319-324
Approximate Bayesian inference for simple mixtures....Pages 173-173
Correlated INAR(1) process....Pages 325-330
Confidence regions for stabilized multivariate tests....Pages 331-336
Comparison of stationary time series using distribution-free methods....Pages 337-342
Generation of Boolean classification rules....Pages 343-348
A statistical package based on Pnuts....Pages 349-354
Generalized linear mixed models: An improved estimating procedure....Pages 355-360
The stochastic dimension in a dynamic GIS....Pages 361-366
A robust version of principal factor analysis....Pages 367-372
TESS: system for automatic seasonal adjustment and forecasting of time series....Pages 373-378
The BADAME project....Pages 379-384
Improving Statistics Canada’s cell suppression software (CONFID)....Pages 385-390
The multimedia project MM*STAT for teaching statistics....Pages 391-396
Projection pursuit approach to robust canonical correlation analysis....Pages 397-402
A fast algorithm for highly robust regression in data mining....Pages 403-408
Optimal classification trees....Pages 409-414
GAM spline algorithms: a direct comparison....Pages 415-420
Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for handling missing covariates in longitudinal mixed models....Pages 421-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-432
Robust Bayesian classification....Pages 433-438
Social science measurement by means of item response models....Pages 439-444
Multivariate DLMs for forecasting financial time series, with application to the management of portfolios....Pages 173-173
An algorithm for the multivariate Tukey median....Pages 445-450
Analyzing and synthesizing information from a multiple-study database....Pages 451-456
Bootstrapping neural discriminant model....Pages 457-462
An improved algorithm for robust PCA....Pages 463-468
Applying techniques of dynamic programming to sequential mastery testing....Pages 469-474
The introduction of formal structure into the processing of statistical summary data....Pages 475-480
Validation of association rules by interactive mosaic plots....Pages 481-486
Optimality models for PRAM....Pages 487-492
Dealing with real ordinal data: recent advances in analyzing tied, censored, and multivariate observations....Pages 493-498
Testing for differences in location: a comparison of bootstrap methods in the small sample case....Pages 499-504
Two principal points for location mixtures....Pages 505-510
Vector splines and other vector smoothers....Pages 511-516
Back Matter....Pages 517-522
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