Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Area: Selected Papers from Scra2001-Fim Viii, Wollogong Conference University of Wollongong, Australia, 19-21 December 2001

by Gulati, Chandra; Lin, Yan-Xia; Mishra, Satya; Rayner, John

• ISBN13: 9789812382016
• ISBN10: 9812382011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas, and the Eighth International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. It includes contributions from eminent statisticians such as Joe Gani, Clive Granger, Chris Heyde, R Nishii, C R Rao, P K Sen and Sue Wilson. By exploring and investigating deeper, these papers enlarge the reservoir in the represented areas of research, such as bioinformatics, estimating functions, financial statistics, generalized linear models, goodness of fit, image analysis, industrial data analysis, multivariate statistics, neural networks, quasi-likelihood, sample surveys, statistical inference, stochastic models, and time series.

Table of Contents

Preface
Efficient Estimators of Different Types for Domains	p. 1
Neural Network Nonlinear Regression Modeling and Information Criteria	p. 11
Chisquared Components as Tests of Fit for Discrete Distributions	p. 23
On the Determination of an Appropriate Hedging Strategy	p. 32
Simulating Transects Through Two-Phase Particles	p. 45
New Bounds for the Three-Point Rule Involving the Riemann-Stieltjes Integral	p. 53
Some Comparisons of Clustering and Classification Techniques Applied to
Transcriptional Profiling Data	p. 63
Mean-Variance Edge Plots for Ensemble Voting Schemes	p. 75
Approximating the Cauchy Principal Value Integral via Hermite-Hadamard Type Inequalities	p. 84
Nonhomogenous Susceptibles and Infectives Among Needle Sharing Ivdus	p. 91
Long Memory Processes - An Economist's Viewpoint	p. 100
An Indifference Zone Approach to Testing for a Two-Component Normal Mixture	p. 112
Risk Models for Individual Decision Making	p. 120
Adaptive M-Estimation Procedure: Adequacy and Alternative Approach	p. 133
Bayesian Inference for Categorical Data with Misclassification Errors	p. 143
The Global Solution of an Initial Value Problem for the Damped Boussinesq Equation	p. 152
Testing Equality of Corresponding Variances from Multiple Covariance Matrices	p. 157
Contextual Image Fusion Based on Markov Random Fields and Its Applications to Geo-Spatial Image Enhancement	p. 167
Autoregression, Estimating Functions, and Optimality Criteria	p. 180
Semiparametric Density Estimation with Additive Adjustment	p. 196
A Modified Cyclic-Coordinate Exchange Algorithm as Illustrated by the Construction of Minimum-Point Second-Order Designs	p. 205
Has Statistics a Future? If so, in What Form?	p. 211
Using Contingency Tables to Construct both Traditional and New Nonparametric Tests	p. 247
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Correlation Matrix Under Inequality Constraints Using Gibbs Sampling	p. 258
Reservicing Some Customers in M/G/1 Queues, Under Two Disciplines	p. 267
Bioinformatics: Statistical Perspectives and Controversies	p. 275
Monitoring Pavement Construction Processes	p. 294
In Search of a Good Rotation Pattern	p. 309
Simulating Seawater Intrusion in Aquifers Using the Modified Fokker-Planck Equation and Boussinesq Equation Subject to Phase-Modulated Tidal Waves	p. 320
Modelling Health Inequalities Using Dynamic Microsimulation: Statistical Issues and Future Scope	p. 332
Hypothesis Testing of Multivariate Abundance Data	p. 349
Estimation of Parameters in Pyrolysis Kinetics	p. 361
Non-Replicability of Disease Gene Results: A Modelling Perspective	p. 374
Statistical Process Monitoring for Autocorrelated Data	p. 383
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