Some Recent Advances in Mathematics and Statistics

This volume consists of a series of research papers presented at the conference Statistics 2011 Canada: 5th Canadian Conference in Applied Statistics held together with the 20th conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics titled, “Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques”. These papers cover a wide range of topics from applications of Mathematics and Statistics such as Selection Bias in Surveys, Biomarker Discovery, Analysis of Earth Temperature, Supply Chain Management, Trimmed ANOVA, Zero-inflated Data, Non-Gaussian Time Series, and Stochastic Ordering; Classification, Nonparametric Test, and Jackknifed Ridge Estimator; Bayes Factor; Random Graphs and Error Correcting Codes; Meta Analysis; and National Health Plans and Risk Reduction through Supply Chain.

The topics have been reviewed by experts in the field and the selected papers are expected to provide a topical resource on the subjects concerned.

Contents:

• Preface
• Hypothesis Assessment Using the Bayes Factor and Relative Belief Ratio (Z Baskurt and M Evans)
• An Analysis of 1990-2011 Ontario Surface Air Temperatures (D R Brillinger)
• A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampler for Gene Genealogies Conditional on Haplotype Data (K M Burkett, B McNeney and J Graham)
• Jackknifing Stochastic Restricted Ridge Estimator with Heteroscedastic Errors (Y P Chaubey, M Khurana and S Chandra)
• Molecular Classification of Acute Leukemia (G Chen and J Wu)
• A Note on a Nonparametric Trend Test and Its Competitors (K Deka and B Gogoi)
• Local Search for Identifying Communities in Large Random Graphs (N Deo and M Vasudevan)
• Data Mining Approaches to Multivariate Biomarker Discovery (D M Dziuda)
• On Sequential Change-Point Detection Strategies (E Gombay)
• Multi-Item Two-Stage EOQ Model Incorporating Quantity and Freight Discounts (D Gupta, K Gandhi, S Makkar and P C Jha)
• An Improved Bound on Average Codeword Length of Variable Length Error Correcting Codes (R Gupta and B Sharma)
• Trimmed Analysis of Variance: A Robust Modification of ANOVA (G S Mudholkar, D K Srivastava, C E Marchetti and A G Mudholkar)
• Bayesian Predictive Inference under Sequential Sampling with Selection Bias (B Nandram and D Kim)
• Tests For and Against Uniform Stochastic Ordering on Multinomial Parameters Based on Φ-Divergences (J Peng)
• Development and Management of National Health Plans: Health Economics and Statistical Perspectives (P K Sen)
• A Unified Approach between Population-Averaged and Cluster-Specific Analyses for Multilevel Zero-Inflated Count Data (G Sneddon, M T Hasan and R Ma)
• Meta-Analysis of Binary Outcomes Data in Clinical Trials (P Subbaiah, A Mallick and T K Desai)
• Risk Reduction of the Supply Chain through Pooling Losses in Case of Bankruptcy of Suppliers Using the Black-Scholes-Merton Pricing Model (R Valvarde and M Talla)
• Random Effects Modelling of Non-Gaussian Time Series Responses with Covariates (G Yan, M T Hasan and R Ma)

Readership: Graduate researchers and students in statistics.
Key Features:

• Prominent contributors
• New topics in current areas of interest such Error Correcting Codes, Meta Analysis, Bio-marker Discovery, Data Mining etc.
• Short papers with important topics