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Statistics 2013
The International Year of Statistics is a worldwide celebration and recognition of the contributions of statistical science. Elsevier will be marking these celebrations with the following:
Open Archives
Editors’ Choice
A series of articles made freely available in the below Elsevier Statistics & Probability journals, selected for your reading pleasure by the Editor(s) of each title as the most impactful and significant articles published in these.
- Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
- Statistical Methodology
- Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
- Stochastic Processes and their Applications
- Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Special Issues /Special Invited Papers
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A Special Issue on the Occasion of the 2013 International Year of Statistics in the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications providing an overview of recent and future development of statistics for stochastic processes. Rainer Dahlhaus, Jean Jacod, Per Mykland and Nakahiro Yoshida are guest editors of this issue.
- Special invited article by Sara van de Geer in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Generic chaining and the l1-penalty - Special Invited Discussion Paper by Mathilde Mougeot, Dominique Picard, Karine Tribouley in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Grouping strategies and thresholding for high dimensional linear models
- Special Invited Discussion Paper by Vladimir Spokoiny, Weining Wang, Wolfgang Karl Härdle in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Local quantile regression
Awards and Sponsorships of key Statistics and Probability conferences
- Sponsorships:
Ars Conjectandi - A celebration of 300 years of stochastics
9th Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics
36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
7th Conference on Lévy Processes
The 59th World Statistics Congress
7th CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics
Details of more activities to follow.
Elsevier organized conference
Spatial Statistics 2013
4 – 7 June 2013 | Columbus, Ohio, USA
www.spatialstatisticsconference.com
Featured books and Authors
Featured books:
Featured Author:
Professor Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of Southern California.
Among his texts are A First Course in Probability, Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, and Introductory Statistics. Professor Ross is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.
His recent publication is Simulation, 5th Edition. This latest edition features all-new material on variance reduction, including control variables and their use in estimating the expected return at blackjack and their relation to regression analysis. Additionally, the 5th edition expands on Markov chain monte carlo methods, and offers unique information on the alias method for generating discrete random variables.
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Scopus
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