TY - BOOK AU - Pacheco,Antonio AU - Santos,Rui AU - Oliveira,Maria do Rosario AU - Paulino,Carlos Daniel TI - New advances in statistical modeling and applications T2 - Studies in theoretical and applied statistics SN - 9783319053226 U1 - 000SA.01 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York : PB - Springer KW - Mathematical statistics. N1 - Includes index; Part I Statistical Science: The Non-Mathematical Side of Statistics(Joao A. Branco).-Outliers: The Strength of Minors (Fernando Rosado).-Resampling Methodologiesin the Field of Statistics of UnivariateExtremes(M. Ivette Gomes) -- Robust Functional Principal Component Analysis (Juan Lucas Bali and Graciela Boente) -- Testing the Maximum by the Mean in Quantitative Group (Joao Paulo Martins, Rui Santos and Ricardo Sousa) -- Testing Serial Correlation Using the Gauss-Newton Regression (Efigenio Rebelo, Patrícia Oom do Valle and Rui Nunes) -- Part II Probability and Stochastic Processes: Cantor Sets with Random Repair (M. Fátima Brilhante, Dinis Pestana and M. Luísa Rocha) -- Nearest Neighbor Connectivity in Two-Dimensional Multihop MANETs (Gonçalo Jacinto, Nelson Antunes and António Pacheco) -- Modeling Human Population Death Rates: A Bi-dimensional Stochastic Gompertz Model with Correlated Wiener Processes (Sandra Lagarto and Carlos A. Braumann) -- Consequences of an Incorrect Model Specification on Population Growth (Clara Carlos and Carlos A. Braumann) -- Individual Growth in a Random Environment: an Optimization Problem (Patrícia A. Filipe, Carlos A. Braumann, Clara Carlos and Carlos J. Roquete) -- Valuation of Bond Options under the CIR Model: Some Computational Remarks (Manuela Larguinho, Jose Carlos Dias, and Carlos A. Braumann) -- Part III Extremes: A Semi-Parametric Estimator of a Shape Second Order Parameter (Frederico Caeiro and M. Ivette Gomes) -- Peaks over Random Threshold Asymptotically Best Linear Estimation of the Extreme Value Index (L. Henriques-Rodrigues and M. Ivette Gomes) -- Extremal Quantiles, Value-at-Risk, quasi-PORT and DPOT (P. Araújo Santos and M.I. Fraga Alves) -- The MOP EVI-Estimator Revisited (M. Fatima Brilhante, M. Ivette Gomes and Dinis Pestana) -- Tail Dependence of a Pareto Process (Marta Ferreira) -- Application of the Theory of Extremes to the Study of Precipitation in Madeira Island: Statistical Choice of Extreme Domains of Attraction (Délia Gouveia, Luiz Guerreiro Lopes and Sandra Mendonça) -- The Traveling Salesman Problem and the Gnedenko Theorem (Tiago Salvador and Manuel Cabral Morais) -- Part IV Statistical Applications: Brugada Syndrome Diagnosis -- Three Approaches to Combining Diagnostic Markers (Carla Henriques, Ana Cristina Matos, and Luís Ferreira dos Santos) -- Hierarchical Normal Mixture Model to Analyse HIV/AIDS LOS (Sara Simões Dias, Valeska Andreozzi and Maria Oliveira Martins) -- Volatility and Returns of the Main Stock Indices (Thelma Safadi and Airlane P. Alencar) -- Fires in Portugal (Isabel Natario, M. Manuela Oliveira and Susete Marques) -- Forecast Intervals with Boot. EXPOS (Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves) -- Table-graph: a New Approach to Visualize Multivariate Data. Analysis of Chronic Diseases in Portugal (Alexandra Pinto) -- Application of Item Response Theory to Mathematics High School Exams in Portugal (Gonçalo Jacinto, Paulo Infante and Claudia Pereira) -- Evora Residents and Sports Activity (Luisa Carvalho, Paulo Infante and Anabela Afonso)-- Index N2 - This book covers a broad range of papers in the areas of statistical science, probability and stochastic processes, extremes and statistical applications ER -