Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Part I Invited Sessions: Youden Square with Split Units (Stanislaw Franciszek Mejza and Shinji Kuriki).- Likelihood and PLS Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: an Assessment of Sample Size, Skewness and Model Misspecification Effects (Manuel J. Vilares and Pedro S. Coelho).- Part II Communications: A Parametric Cure Model with Covariates (Ana M. Abreu and Cristina S. Rocha).- Survival Analysis Applied to the Study of Time from Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection to AIDS in Portugal (Marta Alves, Cristina S. Rocha and Maria Teresa Paix o).- A new Independence Test for VaR Violations (P. Ara jo Santos and M. I. Fraga Alves).- Discrimination Between Parametric Survival Models for Removal Times of Bird Carcasses in Scavenger Removal Trials at Wind Turbines Sites (Regina Bispo, Joana Bernardino, Tiago A. Marques and Dinis Pestana).- Uniformity (M. F. Brilhante, M. Malva, S. Mendon a, D. Pestana, F. Sequeira and S. Velosa).- Asymptotic Comparison at Optimal Levels of Minimum-Variance Reduced-Bias Tail Index Estimators (Frederico Caeiro and M. Ivette Gomes).- Extremal Behavior of the Generalized Integer-valued Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process (Lu sa Canto e Castro, Dulce Gomes and Maria da Gra a Temido).- Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times (Clara Carlos, Carlos A. Braumann and Patr cia A. Filipe).- Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data (Eunice Carrasquinha, M. Helena Gon alves and M. Salom Cabral).- Risk Assessment on Campylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal (Marta Castel-Branco, Mar lia Antunes, Patr cia In cio and Miguel Cardo).- Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot.EXPOS (Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves).- Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci (C sar Correia, Nuno Sep lveda and Carlos Daniel Paulino).- Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to Mathematics Education (Maria Eug nia Ferr o and Jos G. Dias).- Evaluating Discriminant Analysis Results (Ana Sousa Ferreira and Margarida Cardoso).- Distribution of the Number of Losses in Busy-periods of MX /G/1/n Systems (F tima Ferreira, Ant nio Pacheco and Helena Ribeiro).- Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach (Patr cia Ferreira Ramos, Manuel Cabral Morais and Ant nio Pacheco).- Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a new Independence Test (M. I. Fraga Alves and P. Ara jo Santos).- Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum for a Chaotic Economic Model (Ana Cristina Moreira Freitas).- Adaptive Choice of Thresholds and the Bootstrap Methodology: An Empirical Study (M. Ivette Gomes, Fernanda Figueiredo and M. Manuela Neves).- Distributional Properties of Generalized Threshold ARCH Models (E. Gon alves and N. Mendes-Lopes).- Preliminary Results on Confidence Intervals for Open Bonus Malus (Gracinda R. Guerreiro, Jo o T. Mexia and Maria F. Miguens).- Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening (Carla Henriques, Ana Cristina Matos and Lu s Ferreira dos Santos).- Circulatory System Diseases and Neoplasms Mortality on Older Portuguese Population: A Spatio-temporal Analysis by Age and Sex (Sandra Lagarto, Carla Nunes, Dulce Gomes and Maria Filomena Mendes).- Absolute Diffusion Process: Sensitivity Measures (Manuela Larguinho, Jos Carlos Dias and Carlos A. Braumann).- Scaling Exponents in Heart Rate Variability (Argentina Leite, Maria Eduarda Silva and Ana Paula Rocha).- Prediction of Dementia Patients: A Comparative Approach Using Parametric vs. non Parametric Classifiers (Jo o Maroco, Dina Silva, Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre de Mendon a and Isabel Santana).- Pareto Scale Mixtures (Miguel Martins Felgueiras).- Fitting Johnson's SB distribution to Forest
Synopsis
This volume of the Selected Papers from Portugal is a product of the Seventeenth Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, held at the beautiful resort seaside city of Sesimbra, Portugal, from September 30 to October 3, 2009. It covers a broad scope of theoretical, methodological as well as application-oriented articles in domains such as: Linear Models and Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Value Theory, Statistics of Diffusions, Markov Processes and other Statistical Applications.