The Nature of SPSS -- Summarizing Data Graphically -- Summarizing Data Numerically: Measures of Central Tendency -- Summarizing Data Numerically: Measures of Variability -- Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables -- Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables -- Basic Ideas of Probability -- Probability Distributions -- Sampling Distri…
Random Closed Sets and Capacity Functionals -- Expectations of Random Sets -- Minkowski Addition -- Unions of Random Sets -- Random Sets and Random Functions. Appendices: Topological Spaces -- Linear Spaces -- Space of Closed Sets -- Compact Sets and the Hausdorff Metric -- Multifunctions and Continuity -- Measures and Probabilities -- Capacities -- Convex Sets -- Semigroups and Harmonic Analys…
Small-Sample Theory -- The General Decision Problem -- The Probability Background -- Uniformly Most Powerful Tests -- Unbiasedness: Theory and First Applications -- Unbiasedness: Applications to Normal Distributions; Confidence Intervals -- Invariance -- Linear Hypotheses -- The Minimax Principle -- Multiple Testing and Simultaneous Inference -- Conditional Inference -- Large-Sample Theory -- B…
to Survival Analysis -- Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test -- The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics -- Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption -- The Stratified Cox Procedure -- Extension of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Time-Dependent Variables -- Parametric Survival Models -- Recurrent Event Survival Analysis -- Competing Risks Survival Ana…
Finance -- Stable Distributions -- Extreme Value Analysis and Copulas -- Tail Dependence -- Pricing of Catastrophe Bonds -- Common Functional Implied Volatility Analysis -- Implied Trinomial Trees -- Heston's Model and the Smile -- FFT-based Option Pricing -- Valuation of Mortgage Backed Securities: from Optimality to Reality -- Predicting Bankruptcy with Support Vector Machines -- Econometric …
Dependence Properties of Meta-Elliptical Distributions -- The Statistical Significance of Palm Beach County -- Bayesian Functional Estimation of Hazard Rates for Randomly Right Censored Data Using Fourier Series Methods -- Conditions for the Validity of F-Ratio Tests for Treatment and Carryover Effects in Crossover Designs -- Bias in Estimating the Variance of K-Fold Cross-Validation -- Effecti…
Markov Models in Molecular Evolution -- to Applications of the Likelihood Function in Molecular Evolution -- to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods in Molecular Evolution -- Population Genetics of Molecular Evolution -- Practical Approaches for Data Analysis -- Maximum Likelihood Methods for Detecting Adaptive Protein Evolution -- HyPhy: Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies -- Bayesian Analysis of…
Probability Theory (i): One Random Variable -- Probability Theory (ii): Many Random Variables -- Statistics (i): An Introduction to Statistical Inference -- Stochastic Processes (i): Poisson Processes and Markov Chains -- The Analysis of One DNA Sequence -- The Analysis of Multiple DNA or Protein Sequences -- Stochastic Processes (ii): Random Walks -- Statistics (ii): Classical Estimation Theor…
Sources of Demographic Data -- Sampling Designs and Inference -- Waiting Times and Their Statistical Estimation -- Regression Models for Counts and Survival -- Multistate Models and Cohort-Component Book-Keeping -- Approaches to Forecasting Demographic Rates -- Uncertainty in Demographic Forecasts: Concepts, Issues, and Evidence -- Statistical Propagation of Error in Forecasting -- Errors in Ce…
Inductive Inference -- Information -- Strict Minimum Message Length (SMML) -- Approximations to SMML -- MML: Quadratic Approximations to SMML -- MML Details in Some Interesting Cases -- Structural Models -- The Feathers on the Arrow of Time -- MML as a Descriptive Theory -- Related Work.The Minimum Message Length (MML) Principle is an information-theoretic approach to induction, hypothesis test…