This volume of essay in honour of Siegfried Schach contains papers written by his colleagues and former students at the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
The 32 contributions in this volume are chosen to Professor Schach's research interests, especially in biometry. The book is separated into sections with articles from the following fields:
- Epidemiology, Clinical Trials and Related Issues
- Nonparametric Methods
- Robust Statistics
- Time Series
- Linear Models
- Teaching Statistics and Other Topics.
Contents:
I. Epidemiology, Clinical Trials and Related Issues
- A Database of Karyotypes of Hermatological Disorders: Statistical Properties
- Continuous Covariables in Epidemiological Studies: Dose-response Modelling and Confounder Adjustment
- Statistical Problems of Meta-analysis in Epidemiology
- Models for the Assessment of Time Dependent Population Risks
- Freiburg Contributions to Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology
- Embedded Matched Cohort Approach to Assess a Potential Drug Interaction with Clinical Trial Data from Phase II-IV
- Issues of Bioequivalence
- Is Death a Bernoulli Trial?
- Statistical Tools for Extracting Information from DNA Sequence Data
- Test for Spatial Clustering of Rare Diseases and Different Cluster Generating Processes
II. Nonparametric Methods
- Nonparametric Quantile Regression with Applications to Stock Returns
- Nonparametric Two-sample Tests for Asymmetric Distributions
- Weighted Records Tests for Splitted Series of Observations
- A Kiefer-Weiss Optimal Sequential Sign Test - Some Considerations on a Bioequivalence Problem from the Viewpoint of Quality Management
- Unconditional Exact Tests for Comparing two Independent Proportions
III. Robust Statistics
- Applying Sliced Inverse Regression to Dynamical Data
- Robust Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
- Median Estimates for Robust and Distribution-free Estimation in Multiple Linear Regression. An Outline
- Influence Functions in the Koziol-Green Model
- Identification of Outliers in an International Radon Intercomparison Exercise
IV. Time Series
- A New Adaptive Algorithm to Detect Shifts, Drifts and Outliers in Biomedical Time Series
- Sampling for Continuous (Space-time) Processes
- Demographic Consequences of Permanet Immigration for the Population of Germany
V. Linear Models
- Multiple Comparisons in Repeated Measures Design, with Biomedical Applications
- Asymptotic and Approximate Analysis of Repeated Measures Designs under Heteroscedasticity
- One-sided Likelihood Ratio Tests for Linear Inequalities on the Parameters of Normal Linear Models
- On the Assessment of Heterogeneity in Randomized Controlled Multi-Centre Trials with Binary Outcome
- Interference Designs with Circular Structure
VI. Teaching Statistics and other Topics
- Data and Context in Statistical Analysis and Consulting
- On an Unexpected Topological Property of Generalized Least Squares Estimates
- Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Clinical Informatics and Molecular Biology: The Imperative to Collaborate
- Assessment of Purity of Intonation in Singing Presentations by Discriminant Analysis
The 32 contributions in this volume are chosen to Professor Schach's research interests, especially in biometry. The book is separated into sections with articles from the following fields:
- Epidemiology, Clinical Trials and Related Issues
- Nonparametric Methods
- Robust Statistics
- Time Series
- Linear Models
- Teaching Statistics and Other Topics.
Contents:
I. Epidemiology, Clinical Trials and Related Issues
- A Database of Karyotypes of Hermatological Disorders: Statistical Properties
- Continuous Covariables in Epidemiological Studies: Dose-response Modelling and Confounder Adjustment
- Statistical Problems of Meta-analysis in Epidemiology
- Models for the Assessment of Time Dependent Population Risks
- Freiburg Contributions to Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology
- Embedded Matched Cohort Approach to Assess a Potential Drug Interaction with Clinical Trial Data from Phase II-IV
- Issues of Bioequivalence
- Is Death a Bernoulli Trial?
- Statistical Tools for Extracting Information from DNA Sequence Data
- Test for Spatial Clustering of Rare Diseases and Different Cluster Generating Processes
II. Nonparametric Methods
- Nonparametric Quantile Regression with Applications to Stock Returns
- Nonparametric Two-sample Tests for Asymmetric Distributions
- Weighted Records Tests for Splitted Series of Observations
- A Kiefer-Weiss Optimal Sequential Sign Test - Some Considerations on a Bioequivalence Problem from the Viewpoint of Quality Management
- Unconditional Exact Tests for Comparing two Independent Proportions
III. Robust Statistics
- Applying Sliced Inverse Regression to Dynamical Data
- Robust Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
- Median Estimates for Robust and Distribution-free Estimation in Multiple Linear Regression. An Outline
- Influence Functions in the Koziol-Green Model
- Identification of Outliers in an International Radon Intercomparison Exercise
IV. Time Series
- A New Adaptive Algorithm to Detect Shifts, Drifts and Outliers in Biomedical Time Series
- Sampling for Continuous (Space-time) Processes
- Demographic Consequences of Permanet Immigration for the Population of Germany
V. Linear Models
- Multiple Comparisons in Repeated Measures Design, with Biomedical Applications
- Asymptotic and Approximate Analysis of Repeated Measures Designs under Heteroscedasticity
- One-sided Likelihood Ratio Tests for Linear Inequalities on the Parameters of Normal Linear Models
- On the Assessment of Heterogeneity in Randomized Controlled Multi-Centre Trials with Binary Outcome
- Interference Designs with Circular Structure
VI. Teaching Statistics and other Topics
- Data and Context in Statistical Analysis and Consulting
- On an Unexpected Topological Property of Generalized Least Squares Estimates
- Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Clinical Informatics and Molecular Biology: The Imperative to Collaborate
- Assessment of Purity of Intonation in Singing Presentations by Discriminant Analysis