Compstat

by Bethlehem, Jelke G.; Van Der Heijden, Peter G. M.

• ISBN13: 9783790813265
• ISBN10: 3790813265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Physica Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Keynote papers
The broad role of multiple imputation in statistical science	3	(12)
D.B. Rubin
Official Statistics: an estimation strategy for the IT-era	15	(14)
P. Kooiman
A.H. Kroese
R.H. Renssen
Invited papers
Bayesian model selection methods for nonnested models	29	(12)
F. Bertolino
E. Moreno
W. Racugno
Spatio-temporal hierarchical modeling of an infectious disease from (simulated) count data	41	(12)
N. Cressie
A.S. Mugglin
GBMs: GLMs with bilinear terms	53	(12)
A. de Falguerolles
Generalized calibration and application to weighting for non-response	65	(12)
J.-C. Deville
Methodological issues in data mining	77	(10)
D.J. Hand
Practical data mining in a large utility company	87	(10)
G. Hebrail
HGLMs for analysis of correlated non-normal data	97	(12)
Y. Lee
J.A. Nelder
Bootstrapping impulse responses in VAR analyses	109	(12)
H. Lutkepohl
An application of TRAMO-SEATS; model selection and out-of-sample performance. The Swiss CPI series	121	(10)
A. Maravall
F.J. Sanchez
Spreadsheets as tools for statistical computing and statistics education	131	(8)
E. Neuwirth
An algorithm for deepest multiple regression	139	(12)
P.J. Rousseeuw
S. van Aelst
Non-proportional hazards models in survival analysis	151	(10)
H.C. van Houwelingen
P.H.C. Eilers
A spatio-temporal analysis of a field trial	161	(14)
A. Verbyla
M. Lorimer
R. Stevens
Contributed papers
Principal component logistic regression	175	(6)
A.M. Aguilera
M. Escabias
Sieve bootstrap prediction intervals	181	(6)
A.M. Alonso
D. Pena
J. Romo
Clustering by maximizing a fuzzy classification maximum likelihood criterion	187	(6)
C. Ambroise
G. Govaert
Tree-based algorithms for missing data imputation	193	(6)
M.J. Barcena
F. Tusell
MiPy: a system for generating multiple imputations	199	(6)
J. Barnard
A linear approximation to the wild bootstrap in specification testing	205	(6)
K. Bartels
The size of the largest nonidentifiable outlier as a performance criterion for multivariate outlier identification: the case of high-dimensional data	211	(6)
C. Becker
The influence of data generation and imputation methods on the bias of factor analysis of rating scale data	217	(6)
C.A. Bernaards
Model on a population and prediction on another one: a generalized discriminant rule	223	(6)
C. Biernacki
F. Beninel
V. Bretagnolle
Disclosure control on multi-way tables by means of the shuttle algorithm: extensions and experiments	229	(6)
L. Buzzigoli
A. Giusti
An MLE strategy for combining optimally pruned decision trees	235	(6)
C. Cappeelli
W.D. Shannon
Semi-parametric models for data mining	241	(6)
C. Conversano
F. Mola
Preliminary estimation of ARFIMA models	247	(6)
M. Corduas
A collection of applets for visualizing statistical concepts	253	(6)
P. Darius
J.-P. Ottoy
A. Solomin
O. Thas
B. Raeymaekers
S. Michiels
Non-parametric regression and density estimation under control of modality	259	(6)
P.L. Davies
A. Kovac
Multivariate approaches for aggregate time series	265	(6)
C. Davino
V. Esposito
Some space-time models: an application to NO2 pollution in an urban area	271	(6)
S. De Iaco
D. Posa
SLICE: generalised software for statistical data editing and imputation	277	(6)
T. de Waal
Improved PCB inspection: computational issues	283	(6)
D. Denteneer
Optimization of the antithetic Gibbs sample for Gaussian Markov random fields	289	(6)
J.M. Dreesman
Computing zonoid trimmed regions of bivariate data sets	295	(6)
R. Dyckerhoff
Outlier resistant estimators for canonical correlation analysis	301	(6)
P. Filzmoser
C. Dehon
C. Croux
Graphical and phase space models for univariate time series	307	(6)
R. Fried
The use of the Tweedie distribution in statistical modelling	313	(6)
R. Gilchrist
D. Drinkwater
Predictive dimension: an alternative definition to embedding dimension	319	(6)
D. Guegan
F. Lisi
Post-stratification to correct for nonresponse: classification of ZIP code areas	325	(6)
M. Huisman
Approximate Bayesian inference for simple mixtures	331	(6)
K. Humphreys
D.M. Titterington
Correlated INAR(1) process	337	(6)
N. Kolev
D. Paiva
Confidence regions for stabilized multivariate tests	343	(6)
S. Kropf
Comparison of stationary time series using distribution-free methods	349	(6)
E.A. Maharaj
Generation of Boolean classification rules	355	(6)
R.J. Marshall
A statistical package based on Pnuts	361	(6)
J. Nakano
T. Fujiwara
Y. Yamamoto
I. Kobayashi
Generalized regression trees	367	(6)
M. Nunez
Generalized linear mixed models: an improved estimating procedure	373	(6)
J.-X. Pan
R. Thompson
The stochastic dimension in a dynamic GIS	379	(6)
E.J. Pebesma
D. Karssenberg
K. de Jong
A robust version of principal factor analysis	385	(6)
G. Pison
P.J. Rousseeuw
P. Filzmoser
C. Croux
TESS: system for automatic seasonal adjustment and forecasting of time series	391	(6)
A. Prat
V. Gomez
I. Sole
J.M. Catot
The BADAME project	397	(6)
H. Rezankova
L. Marek
Improving Statistics Canada's cell suppression software (CONFID)	403	(6)
D.A. Robertson
The multimedia project MM*STAT for teaching statistics	409	(6)
B. Ronz
M. Muller
U. Ziegenhagen
Projection pursuit approach to robust canonical correlation analysis	415	(6)
M. Rosario de Oliveira
J.A. Branco
A fast algorithm for highly robust regression in data mining	421	(6)
P.J. Rousseeuw
K. van Driessen
Optimal classification trees	427	(6)
P. Savicky
J. Klaschka
J. Antoch
GAM spline algorithms: a direct comparison	433	(6)
M.G. Schimek
Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for handling missing covariates in longitudinal mixed models	439	(6)
E. Schuster
Robust Bayesian classification	445	(6)
P. Sebastiani
M. Ramoni
Social science measurement by means of item response models	451	(6)
K. Sijtsma
Multivariate DLMs for forecasting financial time series, with application to the management of portfolios	457	(6)
A. Simpson
D.J. Wilkinson
An algorithm for the multivariate Tukey median	463	(6)
A. Struyf
P.J. Rousseeuw
Analyzing and synthesizing information from a multiple-study database	469	(6)
Bootstrapping neural discriminant model	475	(6)
M. Tsujitani
T. Koshimizu
An improved algorithm for robust PCA	481	(6)
S. Verboven
P.J. Rousseeuw
M. Hubert
Applying techniques of dynamic programming to sequential mastery testing	487	(6)
H.J. Vos
The introduction of formal structure into the processing of statistical summary data	493	(6)
A. Westlake
Validation of association rules by interactive mosaic plots	499	(6)
A. Wilhelm
H. Hofmann
Optimality models for PRAM	505	(6)
L. Willenborg
Dealing with real ordinal data: recent advances in analyzing tied, censored, and multivariate observations	511	(6)
K. M. Wittkowski
Testing for differences in location: a comparison of bootstrap methods in the small sample case	517	(6)
K. Wolf-Ostermann
Two principal points for location mixtures	523	(6)
W. Yamamoto
N. Shinozaki
Vector splines and other vector smoothers	529	(6)
T.W. Yee
Index of authors	535	(2)
Index of keywords	537