Proceedings of COMPSTAT'2010: 19th International Conference on Computational StatisticsParis France, August 22-27, 2010 Keynote, Invited and Contributed Papers

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Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on computational statistics, held in Paris august 22-27, 2010.Together with 3 keynote talks, there were 14 invited sessions and more than 100 peer-reviewed contributed communications.

Author(s): Luc Devroye (auth.), Yves Lechevallier, Gilbert Saporta (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 621
Tags: Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Complexity Questions in Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation....Pages 3-18
Computational Statistics Solutions for Molecular Biomedical Research: A Challenge and Chance for Both....Pages 19-32
The Laws of Coincidence....Pages 33-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Choosing the Summary Statistics and the Acceptance Rate in Approximate Bayesian Computation....Pages 47-56
Integrating Approximate Bayesian Computation with Complex Agent-Based Models for Cancer Research....Pages 57-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Robust Model Selection with LARS Based on S-estimators....Pages 69-78
Robust Methods for Compositional Data....Pages 79-88
Detecting Multivariate Outliers Using Projection Pursuit with Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 89-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Imaging Genetics: Bio-Informatics and Bio-Statistics Challenges....Pages 101-110
The NPAIRS Computational Statistics Framework for Data Analysis in Neuroimaging....Pages 111-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Bootstrap Prediction in Unobserved Component Models....Pages 123-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
A Numerical Approach to Ruin Models with Excess of Loss Reinsurance and Reinstatements *....Pages 135-144
Computation of the Aggregate Claim Amount Distribution Using R and Actuar....Pages 145-154
Applications of Multilevel Structured Additive Regression Models to Insurance Data....Pages 155-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Temporally-Adaptive Linear Classification for Handling Population Drift in Credit Scoring....Pages 167-176
Large-Scale Machine Learning with Stochastic Gradient Descent....Pages 177-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Anticipated and Adaptive Prediction in Functional Discriminant Analysis....Pages 189-198
Bootstrap Calibration in Functional Linear Regression Models with Applications....Pages 199-207
Empirical Dynamics and Functional Data Analysis....Pages 209-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Indefinite Kernel Discriminant Analysis....Pages 221-230
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Data Dependent Priors in PAC-Bayes Bounds....Pages 231-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Some Algorithms to Fit some Reliability Mixture Models under Censoring....Pages 243-252
Computational and Monte-Carlo Aspects of Systems for Monitoring Reliability Data....Pages 253-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Evolutionary Computation for Modelling and Optimization in Finance....Pages 265-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Examining the Association between Deprivation Profiles and Air Pollution in Greater London using Bayesian Dirichlet Process Mixture Models....Pages 277-283
Assessing the Association between Environmental Exposures and Human Health....Pages 285-294
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Semiparametric Seasonal Cointegrating Rank Selection....Pages 297-304
Estimating Factor Models for Multivariate Volatilities: An Innovation Expansion Method....Pages 305-314
Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Model with Cross Leverage....Pages 315-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Bag of Pursuits and Neural Gas for Improved Sparse Coding....Pages 327-336
On the Role and Impact of the Metaparameters in t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding....Pages 337-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Multiple Nested Reductions of Single Data Modes as a Tool to Deal with Large Data Sets....Pages 349-358
The Generic Subspace Clustering Model....Pages 359-367
Clustering Discrete Choice Data....Pages 369-378
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
Application of Local Influence Diagnostics to the Buckley-James Model....Pages 381-388
Multiblock Method for Categorical Variables. Application to the Study of Antibiotic Resistance....Pages 389-396
A Flexible IRT Model for Health Questionnaire: an Application to HRQoL....Pages 397-404
Multidimensional Exploratory Analysis of a Structural Model Using a Class of Generalized Covariance Criteria....Pages 405-412
Semiparametric Models with Functional Responses in a Model Assisted Survey Sampling Setting : Model Assisted Estimation of Electricity Consumption Curves....Pages 413-420
Stochastic Approximation for Multivariate and Functional Median....Pages 421-428
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
A Markov Switching Re-evaluation of Event-Study Methodology....Pages 429-436
Evaluation of DNA Mixtures Accounting for Sampling Variability....Pages 437-444
Monotone Graphical Multivariate Markov Chains....Pages 445-452
Using Observed Functional Data to Simulate a Stochastic Process via a Random Multiplicative Cascade Model....Pages 453-460
A Clusterwise Center and Range Regression Model for Interval-Valued Data....Pages 461-468
Contributions to Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling....Pages 469-476
Some Examples of Statistical Computing in France During the 19th Century....Pages 477-484
Imputation by Gaussian Copula Model with an Application to Incomplete Customer Satisfaction Data....Pages 485-492
On Multiple-Case Diagnostics in Linear Subspace Method....Pages 493-500
Fourier Methods for Sequential Change Point Analysis in Autoregressive Models....Pages 501-508
Computational Treatment of the Error Distribution in Nonparametric Regression with Right-Censored and Selection-Biased Data....Pages 509-516
Mixtures of Weighted Distance-Based Models for Ranking Data....Pages 517-524
Fourier Analysis and Swarm Intelligence for Stochastic Optimization of Discrete Functions....Pages 525-532
Global Hypothesis Test to Simultaneously Compare the Predictive Values of Two Binary Diagnostic Tests in Paired Designs: a Simulation Study....Pages 533-540
Modeling Operational Risk: Estimation and Effects of Dependencies....Pages 541-548
Learning Hierarchical Bayesian Networks for Genome-Wide Association Studies....Pages 549-556
Exact Posterior Distributions over the Segmentation Space and Model Selection for Multiple Change-Point Detection Problems....Pages 557-564
Parcellation Schemes and Statistical Tests to Detect Active Regions on the Cortical Surface....Pages 565-572
Robust Principal Component Analysis Based on Pairwise Correlation Estimators....Pages 573-580
Ordinary Least Squares for Histogram Data Based on Wasserstein Distance....Pages 581-588
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
DetMCD in a Calibration Framework....Pages 589-596
Separable Two-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis....Pages 597-604
List of Supplementary Contributed and Invited Papers Only Available on springerlink.com....Pages 605-616
Back Matter....Pages 617-621