COMPSTAT: Proceedings in Computational Statistics 13th Symposium held in Bristol, Great Britain, 1998

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Analysis of Clustered Multivariate Data from Developmental Toxicity Studies....Pages 3-14
Wavelets in Statistics: Some Recent Developments....Pages 15-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Mortality Pattern Prediction in Worker Cohorts....Pages 29-40
Design Algorithms for Correlated Data....Pages 41-52
(Co)Variance Structures for Linear Models in the Analysis of Plant Improvement Data....Pages 53-64
Optimal Scaling Methods for Graphical Display of Multivariate Data....Pages 65-76
Computer—Assisted Statistics Teaching in Network Environments....Pages 77-88
Modelling Bacterial Genomes Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 89-100
MCMC Specifics for Latent Variable Models....Pages 101-112
Exploratory Versus Decision Trees....Pages 113-124
Exploring Time Series Using Semi- and Nonparametric Methods....Pages 125-136
Time Series Forecasting by Principal Component Methods....Pages 137-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
A Simulation Study of Indirect Prognostic Classification....Pages 149-154
Model Search: An Overview....Pages 155-160
Speeding up the Computation of the Least Quartile Difference Estimator....Pages 161-166
Piece-wise Detection of Spinal Scoliosis....Pages 167-172
A Comparison of Recent EM Accelerators within Item Response Theory....Pages 173-178
Gröbner Basis Methods in Polynomial Modelling....Pages 179-184
Analysis of High Dimensional Data from Intensive Care Medicine....Pages 185-190
Fitting Non-Gaussian Time Series Models....Pages 191-196
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Using Singular Value Decomposition in Non-Linear Regression....Pages 197-202
A Modelling Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Kernel Density Estimation....Pages 203-208
A New Method for Cross-Classification Analysis of Contingency Data Tables....Pages 209-214
Bayesian Analysis of Overdispersed Count Data with Application to Teletraffic Monitoring....Pages 215-220
An Alternative Pruning Method Based on the Impurity-Complexity Measure....Pages 221-226
Bayesian Inference for Mixture: The Label Switching Problem....Pages 227-232
Simulation of Multifractional Brownian Motion....Pages 233-238
Simulating Categorical Data from Spatial Models....Pages 239-244
Robust Factorization of a Data Matrix....Pages 245-250
Spatial Clustering Techniques: An Experimental Comparison....Pages 251-256
A Visual Environment for Designing Experiments....Pages 257-262
Essay of a Dynamic Regression by Principal Components Model for Correlated Time Series....Pages 263-268
Traffic Models for Telecommunication....Pages 269-274
Construction of Non-Standard Row-Column Designs....Pages 275-280
Computational Statistics for Pharmacokinetic Data Analysis....Pages 281-286
Frailty Factors and Time-dependent Hazards in Modelling Ear Infections in Children Using BASSIST....Pages 287-292
Algorithms for Robustified Error-in-Variables Problems....Pages 293-298
Idaresa — a Tool for Construction, Description and Use of Harmonised Datasets from National Surveys....Pages 299-304
LLAMA: an Object-Oriented System for Log Multiplicative Models....Pages 305-310
Using Threshold Accepting to Improve the Computation of Censored Quantile Regression....Pages 311-316
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
On the Convergence of Iterated Random Maps with Applications to the MCEM Algorithm....Pages 317-322
Parameter Estimators for Gaussian Models with Censored Time Series and Spatio-temporal Data....Pages 323-328
Assessing the Multimodality of a Multivariate Distribution Using Nonparametric Techniques....Pages 329-334
Bayesian Signal Restoration and Model Determination for Ion Channels....Pages 335-340
ARGUS, Software Packages for Statistical Disclosure Control....Pages 341-345
Building End-User Statistical Applications: An Example Using STABLE....Pages 347-352
On Multiple Window Local Polynomial Approximation with Varying Adaptive Bandwidths....Pages 353-358
Minimization of Computational Cost in Tree-Based Methods by a Proper Ordering of Splits....Pages 359-364
Stable Multivariate Procedures — Strategies and Software Tools....Pages 365-370
An Alternating Method to Optimally Transform Variables in Projection Pursuit Regression....Pages 371-376
Predicting from Unbalanced Linear or Generalized Linear Models....Pages 377-382
MCMC Solution to Circle Fitting in Analysis of RICH Detector Data....Pages 383-388
A Visual Future for Statistical Computing....Pages 389-394
Development of Statistical Software SAMMIF for Sensitivity Analysis in Multivariate Methods....Pages 395-400
Data Imputation and Nowcasting in the Environmental Sciences Using Clustering and Connectionist Modelling....Pages 401-406
Graphical User Interface for Statistical Software Using Interne....Pages 407-412
A Wavelet Approach to Functional Principal Component Analysis....Pages 413-418
Quasi-Monte Carlo EM Algorithm for MLEs in Generalized Linear Mixed Models....Pages 419-424
Applications of Smoothed Monotone Regression Splines and Smoothed Bootstrapping in Survival Analysis....Pages 425-430
Comparing the Fits of Non-Nested Non-Linear Models....Pages 431-436
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
The Deepest Fit....Pages 437-442
Partially Linear Models: A New Algorithm and some Simulation Results....Pages 443-448
Induction of Graphical Models from Incomplete Samples....Pages 449-454
Locally and Bayesian Optimal Designs for Binary Dose—Response Models with Various Link Functions....Pages 455-460
Statistics Training and the Internet....Pages 461-466
Jointly Modelling Longitudinal and Survival Data....Pages 467-471
Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations....Pages 473-478
A General Form for Specification of Correlated Error Models, with Allowance for Heterogeneity....Pages 479-484
Exploratory Data Analysis with Linked Dotplots and Histograms....Pages 485-490
An Object-Oriented Approach to Local Computation in Bayes Linear Belief Networks....Pages 491-496
Back Matter....Pages 497-501