Pacheco A., Santos R., do Rosário Oliveira M., Paulino C.D. (eds.) New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications

New York: Springer, 2014. — 283 p.This volume of the Selected Papers is a product of the XIX Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, held at the Portuguese town of Nazaré, from September 28 to October 1, 2011. All contributions were selected after a thorough peer-review process. It covers a broad scope of papers in the areas of Statistical Science, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Extremes and Statistical Applications.The Non-mathematical Side of Statistics
Outliers : The Strength of Minors
Resampling Methodologies in the Field of Statistics of Univariate Extremes
Robust Functional Principal Component Analysis
Testing the Maximum by the Mean in Quantitative Group Tests
Testing Serial Correlation Using the Gauss–Newton RegressionCantor Sets with Random Repair
Nearest Neighbor Connectivity in Two-Dimensional Multihop MANETs
Modeling Human Population Death Rates: A Bi-Dimensional Stochastic Gompertz Model with Correlated Wiener Processes
Consequences of an Incorrect Model Specification on Population Growth
Individual Growth in a Random Environment: An Optimization Problem
Valuation of Bond Options Under the CIR Model: Some Computational RemarksA Semi-parametric Estimator of a Shape Second-Order Parameter
Peaks Over Random Threshold Asymptotically Best Linear Estimation of the Extreme Value Index
Extremal Quantiles, Value-at-Risk, Quasi-PORT and DPOT
The MOP EVI-Estimator Revisited
Tail Dependence of a Pareto Process
Application of the Theory of Extremes to the Study of Precipitation in Madeira Island: Statistical Choice of Extreme Domains of Attraction
The Traveling Salesman Problem and the Gnedenko TheoremBrugada Syndrome Diagnosis: Three Approaches to Combining Diagnostic MarkersHierarchical Normal Mixture Model to Analyse HIV/AIDS LOS
Volatility and Returns of the Main Stock Indices
Using INLA to Estimate a Highly Dimensional Spatial Model for Forest Fires in Portugal
Forecast Intervals with Boot.EXPOS
Table-Graph: A New Approach to Visualize Multivariate Data. Analysis of Chronic Diseases in Portugal
Application of Item Response Theory to Mathematics High School Exams in Portugal
Évora Residents and Sports Activity