Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introducing Prior Information into the Forward Search for Regression....Pages 1-8
A Finite Mixture Latent Trajectory Model for Hirings and Separations in the Labor Market....Pages 9-20
Outliers in Time Series: An Empirical Likelihood Approach....Pages 21-29
Advanced Methods to Design Samples for Land Use/Land Cover Surveys....Pages 31-42
Heteroscedasticity, Multiple Populations and Outliers in Trade Data....Pages 43-50
How to Marry Robustness and Applied Statistics....Pages 51-64
Logistic Quantile Regression to Model Cognitive Impairment in Sardinian Cancer Patients....Pages 65-73
Bounding the Probability of Causation in Mediation Analysis....Pages 75-84
Analysis of Collaboration Structures Through Time: The Case of Technological Districts....Pages 85-93
Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urban Air Pollution Dynamics....Pages 95-103
Clustering Functional Data on Convex Function Spaces....Pages 105-114
The Impact of Demographic Change on Sustainability of Emergency Departments....Pages 115-129
Bell-Shaped Fuzzy Numbers Associated with the Normal Curve....Pages 131-144
Improving Co-authorship Network Structures by Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources....Pages 145-153
Statistical Issues in Bayesian Meta-Analysis....Pages 155-172
Statistical Evaluation of Forensic DNA Mixtures from Multiple Traces....Pages 173-180
A Note on Semivariogram....Pages 181-190
Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of Cardiovascular Diseases: Evidence from Canada Health Data....Pages 191-203
Pseudo-Likelihoods for Bayesian Inference....Pages 205-220