Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov Processes and Other Statistical Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Youden Square with Split Units....Pages 3-10
Likelihood and PLS Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: An Assessment of Sample Size, Skewness and Model Misspecification Effects....Pages 11-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
A Parametric Cure Model with Covariates....Pages 37-45
Survival Analysis Applied to the Study of Time from Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection to AIDS in Portugal....Pages 47-54
A New Independence Test for VaR Violations....Pages 55-63
Discrimination Between Parametric Survival Models for Removal Times of Bird Carcasses in Scavenger Removal Trials at Wind Turbines Sites....Pages 65-72
Uniformity....Pages 73-81
Asymptotic Comparison at Optimal Levels of Minimum-Variance Reduced-Bias Tail-Index Estimators....Pages 83-91
Extremal Behavior of the Generalized Integer-Valued Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process....Pages 93-101
Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times....Pages 103-111
Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data....Pages 113-120
Risk Assessment on Campylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal....Pages 121-129
Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot.EXPOS....Pages 131-138
Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci....Pages 139-146
Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to Mathematics Education....Pages 147-153
Evaluating Discriminant Analysis Results....Pages 155-162
Distribution of the Number of Losses in Busy-Periods of $${M}^{X}/G/1/n$$ Systems....Pages 163-171
Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach....Pages 173-182
Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a New Independence Test....Pages 183-191
Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum for a Chaotic Economic Model....Pages 193-201
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Adaptive Choice of Thresholds and the Bootstrap Methodology: An Empirical Study....Pages 203-211
Distributional Properties of Generalized Threshold ARCH Models....Pages 213-222
Preliminary Results on Confidence Intervals for Open Bonus Malus ....Pages 223-230
Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening....Pages 231-238
Mortality on Older Portuguese Population due to Circulatory System Diseases and Neoplasms: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis by Age and Sex....Pages 239-248
Absolute Diffusion Process: Sensitivity Measures....Pages 249-257
Scaling Exponents in Heart Rate Variability....Pages 259-267
Prediction of Dementia Patients: A Comparative Approach Using Parametric Versus Nonparametric Classifiers....Pages 269-280
Pareto Scale Mixtures....Pages 281-288
Fitting Johnson’s S B Distribution to Forest Tree Diameter....Pages 289-296
On a Continuous-Time Stock Price Model with Two Mean Reverting Regimes....Pages 297-305
Generalized F Tests in Models with Random Perturbations: The Truncated Normal Case....Pages 307-315
Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models and Neural Networks: Comparative Study in Medical Applications....Pages 317-324
Joint-Regression Analysis and Incorporation of Environmental Variables in Stochastic Frontier Production Function: An Application to Experimental Data of Winter Rye....Pages 325-336
On the Maximum and Minimum of a Stationary Random Field....Pages 337-345
Publication Bias and Meta-analytic Syntheses....Pages 347-354
Self-perception of Health Status and Socio-Economic Differences in the Use of Health Services....Pages 355-362
Comparison of Modal Variables Using Multivariate Analysis....Pages 363-370
Disentangling the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation by Poisson Mixture Regressions....Pages 371-380
Simulation Study of the Calibration Technique in the Extremal Index Estimation....Pages 381-389
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Semi-parametric Building of the Optimal Screening Region in Supervised Classification....Pages 391-399
An Application of Statistical Methods of Indirect Estimation and Projection of Internal Migration Flows Within the Portuguese Mainland....Pages 401-408
Robust Clustering Method for the Detection of Outliers: Using AIC to Select the Number of Clusters....Pages 409-415
HLA Allele and Haplotype Frequencies of the Portuguese Bone Marrow Donors Registry....Pages 417-426
Independent Component Analysis for Extended Time Series in Climate Data....Pages 427-436
Life Satisfaction: A MIMIC Approach with a Discrete Latent Variable....Pages 437-444
An Application of MRMC ROC Curves on Radiology....Pages 445-451
Some Remarks About Gibbs Variable Selection Performance....Pages 453-461
Dependence of Multivariate Extremes....Pages 463-471