Statistics in action : a Canadian outlook /
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
[2014]
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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.