Recent advances and trends in nonparametric statistics. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael G. Akritas, Dimitris N. Politis.
• Other Names: Akritas, Michael G; Politis, Dimitris N
• Contents: Preface.; ; 1. Algorithmic Approaches to Statistics; ; An introduction to support vector machines; ; (B. Schölkopf); ; ; ; Bagging, subagging and bragging for improving some prediction algorithms; ; (P. Bühlmann); ; ; ; ; Data compression by geometric quantization; ; (Nkem-Amin Khumbah, E. J. Wegman).; ; ; ; 2. Functional Data Analysis; ; Functional data analysis in evolutionary biology; ; (N. E. Heckman); ; ; ; Functional nonparametric statistics: a double infinite dimensional framework; ; (F. Ferraty, P. Vieu).; ; ; ; ; 3. Nonparametric Model Building; ; ; Nonparametric models for ANOVA and ANCOVA: a review; ; (M. G. Akritas, E. Brunner); ; ; ; Isotonic additive interaction models; ; (I. Gluhovsky); ; ; ; A nonparametric alternative to analysis of covariance; ; (A. Bathke, E. Brunner).; ; ; ; ; 4. Goodness Of Fit; ; Assessing structural relationships between distributions - a quantile; process approach based on Mallows distance; ; (G. Freitag, A. Munk, M. Vogt); ; ; ; Almost sure representations in survival analysis under censoring and truncation; applications to goodness-of-fit tests; ; (R. Cao, W. González Manteiga, C. Iglesias Pérez); ; ; ; ; 5. High-Dimensional Data And Visualization; ; Data depth: center-outward ordering of multivariate data and nonparametric multivariate statistics; ; (R. Y. Liu); ; ; ; Visual exploration of data through their graph representations; ; (G. Michailidis).; ; ; 6. Nonparametric Regression; ; Inference for nonsmooth regression curves and surfaces using kernel-based methods; ; (I. Gijbels); ; Nonparametric smoothing methods for a class of non-standard curve; estimation problems; ; (O. Linton, E. Mammen). ; ; Weighted local linear approach to censored nonparametric regression; ; (Z. Cai).; ; ; 7. Topics In Nonparametrics; ; Adaptive quantile regression; ; (S. van de Geer); ; ; Set estimation: an overview and some recent developments; ; (A. Cuevas, A. Rodríguez-Casal); ; Nonparametric methods for heavy tailed vector data: a survey with applications; from finance and hydrology; ; (M. M. Meerschaert, Hans-Peter Scheffler).; ; ; 8. Nonparametrics in Finance; ; ; Nonparametric methods in continuous-time finance: a selective review; ; (Z. Cai, Y. Hong); ; Nonparametric estimation in a stochastic volatility model; ; (J. Franke, W. Härdle, Jens-Peter Kreiss); ; ; Dynamic nonparametric filtering with application to volatility estimation; ; (Ming-Yen Cheng, J. Fan, V. Spokoiny). ; ; ; ; ; A normalizing and variance-stabilizing transformation for financial time series; ; (D. N. Politis).; ; ; 9. Bioinformatics and Biostatistics; ; Biostochastics and nonparametrics: oranges and apples?; ; (P. K. Sen); ; ; ; Some issues concerning length-biased sampling in survival analysis; ; (M. Asgharian, D. B. Wolfson); ; Covariate centering and scaling in varying-coefficient regression with; application to longitudinal growth studies; ; (C. O. Wu, K. F. Yu, V. W.S. Yuan); ; Directed peeling and covering of patient rules; ; (M. LeBlanc, J. Moon, J. Crowley).; ; 10. Resampling and Subsampling; ; Statistical analysis of survival models with Bayesian bootstrap; ; (J. Lee, Y. Kim); ; On optimal variance estimation under different spatial subsampling schemes; ; (D. J. Nordman, S. N. Lahiri). ; ; ; Locally stationary processes and the local block bootstrap; ; (A. Dowla, E. Paparoditis, D. N. Politis).; ; ; ; ; ; 11. Time Series and Stochastic Processes; ; Spectral analysis and a class of nonstationary processes; ; (M. Rosenblatt); ; Curve estimation for locally stationary time series models; ; (R. Dahlhaus); ; ; Assessing spatial isotropy; ; (M. Sherman, Y. Guan, J. A. Calvin).; ; ; 12. Wavelet and Multiresolution Methods; ; Automatic landmark registration of 1D curves; ; (J. Bigot); ; Stochastic multiresolution models for turbulence; ; (B. Whitcher, J.B. Weiss, D.W. Nychka, T.J. Hoar).; ; ; ; List of Contributors;
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam, the Netherlands San Diego, CA : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 512 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 519.5; Nonparametric statistics; Statistique non paramétrique; MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Nonparametric statistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080540375; 0080540376; 9780444513786; 0444513787
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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