Statistics in action : a Canadian outlook /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Lawless, Jerald F., 1944- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2014]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Canadians studying abroad and the development of statistics in Canada / David R. Bellhouse and Stephen E. Fienberg
  • Some of Statistics Canada's contributions to survey methodology / Jean-François Beaumont, Susie Fortier, Jack Gambino, Michael Hidiroglou, and Pierre Lavallée-- Watching children grow taught us all we know / James O. Ramsay and Michael Hermanussen
  • Modeling dependence beyond correlation / Christian Genest and Johanna G. Nes̆lehová
  • Lasso and sparsity in statistics / Robert J. Tibshirani
  • Optimizing and adapting the metropolis algorithm / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
  • Design of computer experiments for optimization, estimation of function contours, and related objectives / Derek Bingham, Pritam Ranjan, and William J. Welch
  • Statistical genetic modeling and analysis of complex traits / Shelley B. Bull, Jinko Graham, and Celia M. T. Greenwood
  • Bayesian methods in Fisher's statistical genetics world / Radu V. Craiu and Lei Sun
  • Bayesian statistical methodology for observational health sciences data / Paul Gustafson
  • Statistical models for disease processes: markers and skeletal complications in cancer metastatic to bone / Richard J. Cook
  • Analysis of biased survival data: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging and beyond / Masoud Asgharian, Christina Wolfson, and David B. Wolfson
  • Assessing the effect on survival of kidney transplantation with higher-risk donor kidneys / Douglas E. Schaubel and John D. Kalbfleisch
  • Risk-adjusted monitoring of outcomes in health care / Stefan H. Steiner
  • Statistics in financial engineering / Bruno Rémillard
  • Making personalized recommendations in e-commerce / Mu Zhu
  • What do salmon and injection drug users have in common? / Laura L. E. Cowen, Wendell O. Challenger, and Carl J. Schwarz
  • Capture-recapture methods for estimating the size of a population: dealing with variable capture probabilities / Louis-Paul Rivest and Sophie Baillargeon
  • Challenges in statistical marine ecology / Joanna Mills Flemming and Christopher A. Field
  • Quantifying the human and natural contributions to observed climate change / Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Xuebin Zhang, and Qiuzi Wen
  • Data hungry models in a food hungry world: an interdisciplinary challenge bridged by statistics / Louis Kouadio and Nathaniel Newlands.