Recent Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics - Hardcover

Akritas, M.G.; Politis, D.N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444513787 ISBN 13: 9780444513786

Publisher: JAI Press, 2003

Synopsis

The advent of high-speed, affordable computers in the last two decades has given a new boost to the nonparametric way of thinking. Classical nonparametric procedures, such as function smoothing, suddenly lost their abstract flavour as they became practically implementable. In addition, many previously unthinkable possibilities became mainstream; prime examples include the bootstrap and resampling methods, wavelets and nonlinear smoothers, graphical methods, data mining, bioinformatics, as well as the more recent algorithmic approaches such as bagging and boosting. This volume is a collection of short articles - most of which having a review component - describing the state-of-the art of Nonparametric Statistics at the beginning of a new millennium.

Key features:

• algorithic approaches• wavelets and nonlinear smoothers• graphical methods and data mining• biostatistics and bioinformatics• bagging and boosting• support vector machines• resampling methods

About this title

Review

"The book provides current literature in many areas."
Tapabrata Maiti (Iowa State University), in: Journal of American Statistical Association, 2005

Edition details

• Publisher: JAI Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444513787
• ISBN 13: 9780444513786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 522