Tapas Samanta

Ayanendranath Basu

Ashis SenGupta

This volume consists of a collection of research articles on classical and emerging Statistical Paradigms — parametric, non-parametric and semi-parametric, frequentist and Bayesian — encompassing both theoretical advances and emerging applications in a variety of scientific disciplines. For advances in theory, the topics include: Bayesian Inference, Directional Data Analysis, Distribution Theory, Econometrics and Multiple Testing Procedures. The areas in emerging applications include: Bioinformatics, Factorial Experiments and Linear Models, Hotspot Geoinformatics and Reliability. Contents:Reviews:Weak Paradoxes and Paradigms (Jayanta K Ghosh)Nonparametrics in Modern Interdisciplinary Research: Some Perspectives and Prospectives (Pranab K Sen)Parametric:Bounds on Distributions Involving Partial, Marginal and Conditional Information: The Consequences of Incomplete Prior Specification (Barry C Arnold)Stepdown Procedures Controlling a Generalized False Discovery Rate (Wenge Guo and Sanat K Sarkar)On Confidence Intervals for Expected Response in 2n Factorial Experiments with Exponentially Distributed Response Variables (H V Kulkarni and S C Patil)Predictive Influence of Variables in a Linear Regression Model when the Moment Matrix is Singular (Md Nurul Haque Mollah and S K Bhattacharjee)New Wrapped Distributions — Goodness of Fit (A V Dattatreya Rao, I Ramabhadra Sarma and S V S Girija)Semi-Parametric:Non-Stationary Samples and Meta-Distribution (Dominique Guégan)MDL Model Selection Criterion for Mixed Models with an Application to Spline Smoothing (Antti Liski and Erkki P Liski)Digital Governance and Hotspot Geoinformatics with Continuous Fractional Response (G P Patil, S W Joshi and R E Koli)Bayesian Curve Registration of Functional Data (Z Zhong, A Majumdar and R L Eubank)Non-Parametric & Probability:Nonparametric Estimation in a One-Way Error Component Model: A Monte Carlo Analysis (Daniel J Henderson and Aman Ullah)GERT Analysis of Consecutive-k Systems: An Overview (Kanwar Sen, Manju Agarwal and Pooja Mohan)Moment Bounds for Strong-Mixing Processes with Applications (Ratan Dasgupta) Readership: Researchers, professionals and advanced students working on Bayesian and frequentist approaches to statistical modeling and on interfaces for both theory and applications. Key Features:A scholarly and motivating review of non-parametric methods by P K Sen, winner of the Wilks Medal in 2010Discussion of paradoxes of the frequentist and Bayesian paradigms, related counterexamples, and their implicationsStands out in terms of the width and depthKeywords:Bayesian Inference;Design of Experiments;Econometrics;Hotspot Geoinformatics;Linear Models and Regression Analysis;Multiple Testing Procedures;Probability Distributions for Linear and Directional Data;Reliability

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Statistical Paradigms

Peter Filzmoser

Claudio Agostinelli

Diganta Mukherjee

This book offers a collection of recent contributions and emerging ideas in the areas of robust statistics presented at the International Conference on Robust Statistics 2015 (ICORS 2015) held in Kolkata during 12–16 January, 2015. The book explores the applicability of robust methods in other non-traditional areas which includes the use of new techniques such as skew and mixture of skew distributions, scaled Bregman divergences, and multilevel functional data methods; application areas being circular data models and prediction of mortality and life expectancy. The contributions are of both theoretical as well as applied in nature. Robust statistics is a relatively young branch of statistical sciences that is rapidly emerging as the bedrock of statistical analysis in the 21st century due to its flexible nature and wide scope. Robust statistics supports the application of parametric and other inference techniques over a broader domain than the strictly interpreted model scenarios employed in classical statistical methods. The aim of the ICORS conference, which is being organized annually since 2001, is to bring together researchers interested in robust statistics, data analysis and related areas. The conference is meant for theoretical and applied statisticians, data analysts from other fields, leading experts, junior researchers and graduate students. The ICORS meetings offer a forum for discussing recent advances and emerging ideas in statistics with a focus on robustness, and encourage informal contacts and discussions among all the participants. They also play an important role in maintaining a cohesive group of international researchers interested in robust statistics and related topics, whose interactions transcend the meetings and endure year round.

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