Multivariate Data and Multivariate Analysis -- Looking at Multivariate Data -- Principal Components Analysis -- Exploratory Factor Analysis -- Multidimensional Scaling and Correspondence Analysis -- Cluster Analysis -- Grouped Multivariate Data: Multivariate Analysis of Variance and Discriminant Function Analysis -- Multiple Regression and Canonical Correlation -- Analysis of Repeated Measures …
Inference -- Score Test: Historical Review and Recent Developments -- EM Algorithm and Optimal Censoring Schemes for Progressively Type-II Censored Bivariate Normal Data -- Inference Guided Data Exploration -- Discriminating Between Normal and Laplace Distributions -- A Simple Classification Rule for Directional Data -- Ranking and Selection -- On Some Ranking and Selection Procedures for MANOV…
Basic Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra -- Multivariate Distributions -- Distribution Expansions -- Multivariate Linear Models.The book presents important tools and techniques for treating problems in m- ern multivariate statistics in a systematic way. The ambition is to indicate new directions as well as to present the classical part of multivariate statistical analysis in this framework. The b…
Introduction -- Copula function -- Copula-based seasonal design flood calculation -- Drought analysis using copulas -- Copula-based flood coincidence risk analysis -- Copula-based multi-site streamflow simulation -- Copula-based forecast uncertainty evolution model for flood risk analysis -- Copula entropy -- Determination of input for Artificial Neural Networks for flood forecasting using the …
Landslides: An Overview -- Geomorphic, Geo-tectonic and Hydrologic Attributes and Landslide Susceptibility -- Slope instability analysis: A Sub-Watershed Scale Study -- Geomorphic Diversity and Landslide Susceptibility: A Multi-Criteria Evaluation Approach -- Landslide Susceptibility Prediction and Assessment using Bivariate Models -- Multivariate Models and Prediction and Assessment of Landsli…
Introduction: The Promise, Practice and Challenges of Non-Kinetic Instruments of Power -- The Resilient Mind-Set and Deterrence -- On the Instrumentality of Soft Power; or Putin against Democracy Promotion -- 'NATO needs more than planes and tanks and guns’ – Western strategic communication in the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for today -- The Snake Oil of Stabilisation? Explaining t…
(Semi-) Plenary Presentations -- Classification and Data Analysis: Classification; Data Analysis -- Applications -- Archaeology; Astronomy; Bio-Sciences; Electronic Data and Web; Finance and Insurance; Library Science and Linguistics; Macro-Economics; Marketing; Music Science; Quality Assurance -- Contest: Social Milieus in Dortmund.
Executive Summary -- General Introduction and Main Conclusions -- General Introduction -- Basic Notions and General Conclusions -- Synopsis -- Empirical and Theoretical Chapters -- Citation Analysis of Basic Science Research Departments -- Citation Analysis of Scientific Journals -- Basic Principles, Citation Links and Terminology -- ISI Coverage by Discipline -- Implications for the Use of the…
Basic Concepts -- Graphical Methods -- Structural Imsets: Fundamentals -- Description of Probabilistic Models -- Equivalence and Implication -- The Problem of Representative Choice -- Learning -- Open Problems.Conditional independence is a topic that lies between statistics and artificial intelligence. Probabilistic Conditional Independence Structures provides the mathematical description of pr…
Conformal prediction -- Classification with conformal predictors -- Modifications of conformal predictors -- Probabilistic prediction I: impossibility results -- Probabilistic prediction II: Venn predictors -- Beyond exchangeability -- On-line compression modeling I: conformal prediction -- On-line compression modeling II: Venn prediction -- Perspectives and contrasts.Conformal prediction is a …