Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Science

Part I: Data Analysis Based on Latent or Dependent Variable Models.- Chapter 1: A New Method for Robust Mixture Regression and Outlier Detection.- Chapter 2: The Mixture Gatekeeping Procedure Based on Weighted Multiple Testing Correction for Correlated Tests.- Chapter 3: Regularization in Regime-switching Gaussian Autoregressive Models.- Chapter 4: Modeling Zero Inflation and Over-dispersion in the Length of Hospital Stay for Patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease.- Chapter 5: Robust Optimal Interval Design for High-Dimensional Dose Finding in Multi-Agent Combination Trials.- Part II: Life Time Data Analysis.- Chapter 6: Group Selection in Semi-parametric Accelerated Failure Time Model.- Chapter 7: A Proportional Odds Model for Regression Analysis of Case I Interval-Censored Data.- Chapter 8: Empirical Likelihood Inference under Density Ratio Models Based on Type I Censored Samples: Hypothesis Testing and Quantile Estimation.- Chapter 9: Recent Development in the Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Quality of Life Measurements and Survival Data from Cancer Clinical Trials.- Part III: Applied Data Analysis.- Chapter 10: Confidence Weighting Procedures for Multiple Choice Tests.- Chapter 11: Improving the Robustness of Parametric Imputation.- Chapter 12: Maximum Smoothed Likelihood Estimation of the Centre of a Symmetric Distribution.- Chapter 13: Dividend Pay-out Problems with the Logarithmic Utility.- Chapter 14: Modeling the Common Risk among Equities: A Multivariate Time Series Model with an Additive GARCH Structure.

Professor Ding-Geng Chen is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and currently the Wallace Kuralt distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a professor at the University of Rochester and the Karl E. Peace endowed eminent scholar chair in biostatistics at Georgia Southern University. He is also a senior statistics consultant for biopharmaceuticals and government agencies with extensive expertise in clinical trial biostatistics and public health statistics. Professor Chen has written more than 100 referred professional publications and co-authored and co-edited seven books on clinical trial methodology, meta-analysis and public health applications and he has been invited nationally and internationally to give presentations on his research. In 2014 Professor Chen received the "Award of Recognition" from the Deming Conference Committee for his contribution to highly successful advanced biostatistics workshop tutorials with his books. In 2013, he was invited to give a short course at the twentieth Annual Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium (BASS XX, 2013) for his contribution in meta-analysis and received a "Plaque of Honor" for his short course.
Professor Jiahua Chen is a Canada Research Chair, Tier I at the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia. He has made important and fundamental research contributions to the theory and application of mixture models, empirical likelihood, variable select, the theory of sampling and the design of experiments. He has published over 100 research papers. He is the elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. He was the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2014.
Xuewen Lu is Professor of Statistics at the University of Calgary. His broad research interest lies in the areas of biostatistics, predictive microbiology models, survival analysis,

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