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

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 application-oriented articles in domains such as: Linear Models and Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Value Theory, Statistics of Diffusions, Markov Processes and other Statistical Applications.

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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 application-oriented articles in domains such as: Linear Models and Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Value Theory, Statistics of Diffusions, Markov Processes and other Statistical Applications.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Youden Square with Split Units....Pages 3-10
Likelihood and PLS Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: An Assessment of Sample Size, Skewness and Model Misspecification Effects....Pages 11-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
A Parametric Cure Model with Covariates....Pages 37-45
Survival Analysis Applied to the Study of Time from Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection to AIDS in Portugal....Pages 47-54
A New Independence Test for VaR Violations....Pages 55-63
Discrimination Between Parametric Survival Models for Removal Times of Bird Carcasses in Scavenger Removal Trials at Wind Turbines Sites....Pages 65-72
Uniformity....Pages 73-81
Asymptotic Comparison at Optimal Levels of Minimum-Variance Reduced-Bias Tail-Index Estimators....Pages 83-91
Extremal Behavior of the Generalized Integer-Valued Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process....Pages 93-101
Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times....Pages 103-111
Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data....Pages 113-120
Risk Assessment on Campylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal....Pages 121-129
Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot.EXPOS....Pages 131-138
Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci....Pages 139-146
Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to Mathematics Education....Pages 147-153
Evaluating Discriminant Analysis Results....Pages 155-162
Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach....Pages 163-171
Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a New Independence Test....Pages 173-182
Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum for a Chaotic Economic Model....Pages 183-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-201
Adaptive Choice of Thresholds and the Bootstrap Methodology: An Empirical Study....Pages 35-35
Distributional Properties of Generalized Threshold ARCH Models....Pages 203-211
Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening....Pages 213-222
Mortality on Older Portuguese Population due to Circulatory System Diseases and Neoplasms: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis by Age and Sex....Pages 223-230
Absolute Diffusion Process: Sensitivity Measures....Pages 231-238
Scaling Exponents in Heart Rate Variability....Pages 239-248
Prediction of Dementia Patients: A Comparative Approach Using Parametric Versus Nonparametric Classifiers....Pages 249-257
Pareto Scale Mixtures....Pages 259-267
On a Continuous-Time Stock Price Model with Two Mean Reverting Regimes....Pages 269-280
Generalized F Tests in Models with Random Perturbations: The Truncated Normal Case....Pages 281-288
Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models and Neural Networks: Comparative Study in Medical Applications....Pages 289-296
Joint-Regression Analysis and Incorporation of Environmental Variables in Stochastic Frontier Production Function: An Application to Experimental Data of Winter Rye....Pages 297-305
On the Maximum and Minimum of a Stationary Random Field....Pages 307-315
Publication Bias and Meta-analytic Syntheses....Pages 317-324
Self-perception of Health Status and Socio-Economic Differences in the Use of Health Services....Pages 325-336
Comparison of Modal Variables Using Multivariate Analysis....Pages 337-345
Disentangling the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation by Poisson Mixture Regressions....Pages 347-354
Simulation Study of the Calibration Technique in the Extremal Index Estimation....Pages 355-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-370
Semi-parametric Building of the Optimal Screening Region in Supervised Classification....Pages 371-380
An Application of Statistical Methods of Indirect Estimation and Projection of Internal Migration Flows Within the Portuguese Mainland....Pages 381-389
Robust Clustering Method for the Detection of Outliers: Using AIC to Select the Number of Clusters....Pages 35-35
HLA Allele and Haplotype Frequencies of the Portuguese Bone Marrow Donors Registry....Pages 391-399
Independent Component Analysis for Extended Time Series in Climate Data....Pages 401-408
Life Satisfaction: A MIMIC Approach with a Discrete Latent Variable....Pages 409-415
An Application of MRMC ROC Curves on Radiology....Pages 417-426
Some Remarks About Gibbs Variable Selection Performance....Pages 427-436
Dependence of Multivariate Extremes....Pages 437-444
....Pages 445-451