Complex Models and Computational Methods in Statistics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
A New Unsupervised Classification Technique Through Nonlinear Non Parametric Mixed-Effects Models....Pages 1-11
Estimation Approaches for the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Rice-Distributed MR Signals....Pages 13-26
Longitudinal Patterns of Financial Product Ownership: A Latent Growth Mixture Approach....Pages 27-36
Computationally Efficient Inference Procedures for Vast Dimensional Realized Covariance Models....Pages 37-49
A GPU Software Library for Likelihood-Based Inference of Environmental Models with Large Datasets....Pages 51-62
Theoretical Regression Trees: A Tool for Multiple Structural-Change Models Analysis....Pages 63-76
Some Contributions to the Theory of Conditional Gibbs Partitions....Pages 77-89
Estimation of Traffic Matrices for LRD Traffic....Pages 91-107
A Newton’s Method for Benchmarking Time Series....Pages 109-121
Spatial Smoothing for Data Distributed over Non-planar Domains....Pages 123-135
Volatility Swings in the US Financial Markets....Pages 137-148
Semicontinuous Regression Models with Skew Distributions....Pages 149-160
Classification of Multivariate Linear-Circular Data with Nonignorable Missing Values....Pages 161-173
Multidimensional Connected Set Detection in Clustering Based on Nonparametric Density Estimation....Pages 175-186
Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations for Modelling Spatial Healthcare Utilization....Pages 187-201
Supply Function Prediction in Electricity Auctions....Pages 203-213
A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for RNA-Seq Data....Pages 215-227