Oliveira P.E., da Graça Temido M., Henriques C., Vichi M. (eds.) Recent Developments in Modeling and Applications in Statistics

Berlin: Springer, 2013. — 269 p.Statistics has been a main tool in almost every field of activity and an essential part of applied scientific work, supporting conclusions and offering insights into new uses for established methodologies, thus making it a valuable resource in looking for faceless facts. Model construction describing populations or phenomena subject to randomness use a wide range of methods. Data collection provides the basis for modelling and assumption verification. Modelling must be conducted using suitable techniques that give researchers the means to search for hidden facts or behaviours. This may be addressed by fitting pre-defined shapes and distributions to the data or by allowing the data to reveal its intrinsic properties by using nonparametric methods. This volume contains a selection of contributions presented at the XVIII Annual Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society.Using Latent Variables in Model Based Clustering: An E-Government Application
Cross-Lagged Structural Equation Models vs Latent Growth Curve Models:A Study of Material Deprivation in Portugal with ICOR
A Finite Mixture Approach to Uncover the Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Visit Motivation and Activity Preferences
An Application of Structural Equation Modeling of Test Dispositional Optimism as Mediator or Moderator in Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Disease
Longitudinal Modeling of Job Satisfaction Using Portuguese Data from the European Community Household Panel
Estimation of Underrepresented Strata in Preelection Polls: A Comparative Study
Medication and Polymedication in PortugalImproved Shape Parameter Estimation in a Discrete Weibull Model
DPOT Methodology: An Application to Value-at-Risk
Estimation of the Extremal Index Function in Case of Asymptotically Independent Markov Chains and Its Application to Stock Market Indices
Generated Covariates in Nonparametric Estimation: A Short Review
A Generator of Heavy-Tailed Search TreesAdaptive PORT-MVRB Estimation of the Extreme Value Index
A Note on the Port Methodology in the Estimation of a Shape Second-Order Parameter
A Class of Semi-parametric Probability Weighted Moment Estimators
Third Order Conditions and Max-semistabilityGeneralized p Values and Random p Values When the Alternative to Uniformity Is a Mixture of a Beta(1,2) and Uniform
The Block-Matrix Sphericity Test: Exact and Near-Exact Distributions for the Test Statistic
Extensions of Dorfman’s TheoryPrediction for Individual Growth in a Random EnvironmentA Note on (Dis)Investment Options and Perpetuities Under CIR Interest Rates
Stochastic Runge–Kutta Schemes for Discretization of Hysteretic ModelsMisleading Signals in Simultaneous Schemes for the Mean Vector and Covariance Matrix of a Bivariate Process
On the Finite Dimensional Laws of Threshold GARCH Processes
Modelling the Duration of Multihop Paths in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Risk Measures and Stochastic Orders Using Integrals of Distorted Quantile Functions.