Statistics in action : a Canadian outlook /: a Canadian outlook. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jerald F. Lawless.
• Other Names: Lawless, Jerald F, 1944-; Statistical Society of Canada.
• Contents: 1. Canadians studying abroad and the development of statistics in Canada / David R. Bellhouse and Stephen E. Fienberg -- 2. Some of statistics Canada's contributions to survey methodology / Jean-Franȯis Beaumont, Susie Fortier, Jack Gambino, Mike Hidiroglou, and Pierre Lavallě -- 3. Watching children grow taught us all we know / James O. Ramsay and Michael Hermanussen -- 4. Modeling dependence beyond correlation / Christian Genest and Johanna G. Ne?lehov ̀-- 5. Lasso and sparsity in statistics / Robert J. Tibshirani -- 6. Optimizing and adapting the metropolis algorithm / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal -- 7. Design of computer experiments for optimization, estimation of function contours, and related objectives / Derek Bingham, Pritam Ranjan, and William J. Welch -- 8. Statistical genetic modeling and analysis of complex traits / Shelley B. Bull, Jinko Graham, and Celia M.T. Greenwood -- 9. Bayesian methods in Fisher's statistical genetics world / Radu V. Craiu and Lei Sun -- 10. Bayesian statistical methodology for observational health sciences data / Paul Gustafson -- 11. Statistical models for disease processes : markers and skeletal complications in cancer metastatic to bone / Richard J. Cook -- 12. Analysis of biased survival data : the Canadian study of health and aging and beyond / Masoud Asgharian, Christina Wolfson, and David B. Wolfson -- 13. Assessing the effect on survival of kidney transplantation with higher-risk donor kidneys / Douglas E. Schaubel and John D. Kalbfleisch -- 14. Risk-adjusted monitoring of outcomes in health care / Stefan H. Steiner -- 15. Statistics in financial engineering / Bruno Rm̌illard -- 16. Making personalized recommendations in e-commerce / Mu Zhu -- 17. What do salmon and injection drug users have in common? / Laura L.E. Cowen, Wendell O. Challenger, and Carl J. Schwarz -- 18. Capture-recapture methods for estimating the size of a population : dealing with variable capture probabilities / Louis-Paul Rivest and Sophie Baillargeon -- 19. Challenges in statistical marine ecology / Joanna Mills Flemming and Christopher A. Field -- 20. Quantifying the human and natural contributions to observed climate change / Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Xuebin Zhang, and Qiuzi Wen -- 21. Data hungry models in a food hungry world : an interdisciplinary challenge bridged by statistics / Louis Kouadio and Nathaniel Newlands.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (382 pages)
• Subjects: 519.50971; Statistics -- Canada -- History; Statisticians -- Canada; MATHEMATICS -- Applied; MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Statisticians; Statistics; Canada; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482236248; 1482236249
• Related ISBNs: 9781482236231
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Print version record.
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