COMPSTAT: Proceedings in Computational Statistics 14th Symposium held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The broad role of multiple imputation in statistical science....Pages 3-14
Official Statistics: an estimation strategy for the IT-era....Pages 15-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Bayesian model selection methods for nonnested models....Pages 29-40
Spatio-temporal hierarchical modeling of an infectious disease from (simulated) count data....Pages 41-52
GBMs: GLMs with bilinear terms....Pages 53-64
Generalized calibration and application to weighting for non-response....Pages 65-76
Methodological issues in data mining....Pages 77-85
Practical data mining in a large utility company....Pages 87-95
HGLMs for analysis of correlated non-normal data....Pages 97-107
Bootstrapping impulse responses in VAR analyses....Pages 109-119
An application of TRAMO-SEATS; model selection and out-of-sample performance. The Swiss CPI series....Pages 121-130
Spreadsheets as tools for statistical computing and statistics education....Pages 131-138
An algorithm for deepest multiple regression....Pages 139-150
Non-proportional hazards models in survival analysis....Pages 151-160
A spatio-temporal analysis of a field trial....Pages 161-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Principal component logistic regression....Pages 175-180
Sieve bootstrap prediction intervals....Pages 181-186
Clustering by maximizing a fuzzy classification maximum likelihood criterion....Pages 187-192
Tree-based algorithms for missing data imputation....Pages 193-198
MiPy: a system for generating multiple imputations....Pages 199-204
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
A linear approximation to the wild bootstrap in specification testing....Pages 205-210
The size of the largest nonidentifiable outlier as a performance criterion for multivariate outlier identification: the case of high-dimensional data....Pages 211-216
The influence of data generation and imputation methods on the bias of factor analysis of rating scale data....Pages 217-222
Model on a population and prediction on another one: a generalized discriminant rule....Pages 223-228
Disclosure control on multi-way tables by means of the shuttle algorithm: extensions and experiments....Pages 229-234
An MLE strategy for combining optimally pruned decision trees....Pages 235-240
Semi-parametric models for data mining....Pages 241-246
Preliminary estimation of ARFIMA models....Pages 247-252
A collection of applets for visualizing statistical concepts....Pages 253-258
Non-parametric regression and density estimation under control of modality....Pages 259-264
Multivariate approaches for aggregate time series 1 ....Pages 265-270
Some space-time models: an application to NO 2 pollution in an urban area....Pages 271-276
SLICE: generalised software for statistical data editing and imputation....Pages 277-282
Improved PCB inspection: computational issues....Pages 283-288
Optimization of the antithetic Gibbs sampler for Gaussian Markov random fields....Pages 289-294
Computing zonoid trimmed regions of bivariate data sets....Pages 295-300
Outlier resistant estimators for canonical correlation analysis....Pages 301-306
Graphical and phase space models for univariate time series....Pages 307-312
The use of the Tweedie distribution in statistical modelling....Pages 313-318
Predictive dimension: an alternative definition to embedding dimension....Pages 319-324
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Post-stratification to correct for nonresponse: classification of ZIP code areas....Pages 325-330
Approximate Bayesian inference for simple mixtures....Pages 331-336
Correlated INAR(1) process....Pages 337-342
Confidence regions for stabilized multivariate tests....Pages 343-348
Comparison of stationary time series using distribution-free methods....Pages 349-354
Generation of Boolean classification rules....Pages 355-360
A statistical package based on Pnuts....Pages 361-366
Generalized regression trees 1 ....Pages 367-372
Generalized linear mixed models: An improved estimating procedure....Pages 373-378
The stochastic dimension in a dynamic GIS....Pages 379-384
A robust version of principal factor analysis....Pages 385-390
TESS: system for automatic seasonal adjustment and forecasting of time series....Pages 391-396
The BADAME project....Pages 397-402
Improving Statistics Canada’s cell suppression software (CONFID)....Pages 403-408
The multimedia project MM*STAT for teaching statistics....Pages 409-414
Projection pursuit approach to robust canonical correlation analysis....Pages 415-420
A fast algorithm for highly robust regression in data mining....Pages 421-426
Optimal classification trees....Pages 427-432
GAM spline algorithms: a direct comparison....Pages 433-438
Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for handling missing covariates in longitudinal mixed models....Pages 439-444
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Robust Bayesian classification....Pages 445-450
Social science measurement by means of item response models....Pages 451-456
Multivariate DLMs for forecasting financial time series, with application to the management of portfolios....Pages 457-462
An algorithm for the multivariate Tukey median....Pages 463-468
Analyzing and synthesizing information from a multiple-study database....Pages 469-474
Bootstrapping neural discriminant model....Pages 475-480
An improved algorithm for robust PCA....Pages 481-486
Applying techniques of dynamic programming to sequential mastery testing....Pages 487-492
The introduction of formal structure into the processing of statistical summary data....Pages 493-498
Validation of association rules by interactive mosaic plots....Pages 499-504
Optimality models for PRAM....Pages 505-510
Dealing with real ordinal data: recent advances in analyzing tied, censored, and multivariate observations....Pages 511-516
Testing for differences in location: a comparison of bootstrap methods in the small sample case....Pages 517-522
Two principal points for location mixtures....Pages 523-528
Vector splines and other vector smoothers....Pages 529-534
Back Matter....Pages 535-540