Statistics in Action : a Canadian Outlook.

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Author / Creator:	Lawless, Jerald F.
Imprint:	Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Statistics -- Canada -- History. Statisticians -- Canada. Statisticians Statistics Canada History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13619527

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ISBN:	1306502780 9781306502788 9781482236248 1482236249 9781482236231
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. Print version record.
Summary:	"This volume honors the 40th anniversary of the Statistical Society of Canada and celebrates Canadian statistics and statisticians. Along with the history and status of statistics in Canada, the book presents a number of interesting statistical contributions from various leading Canadian statisticians. It covers a range of topics in statistics, including survey methodology, survival analysis, genetic modeling, Bayesian methods, statistical models in medicine and epidemiology, risk assessment, and much more"-- "Statistics plays an essential role in diverse elds of human endeavor, including physical science and technology, medicine, public health, the social and behavioral sciences, economics and business. It is the unacknowledged workhorse of scienti c analysis and prediction aimed at everything from organ transplants to climate science to nancial products. At the same time, the emerging eld of \big data" the vast troves of data generated by advancing technology suggests future directions of a eld that continues to develop. Yet, the breadth and in uence of statistics is largely unknown among the general public. The expository articles in this volume describe some of the contributions of Canadian statisticians and illustrate the breadth and impact of the eld. My hope is that the picture they provide of statistics in action" will stimulate readers from many backgrounds. Those wishing to nd out more about statistics (or statistical science) might consult Statistics in the 21st Century (Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2002) and a volume prepared by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) for the International Year of Statistics, Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science (Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2014). In the rst article here, Bellhouse and Fienberg review the development of statistics as a discipline in Canada. They note the close relationship with statistics groups in the United States, and the extent to which early generations of Canadian statisticians trained there. The following article by Beaumont, Fortier, Gambino, Hidiroglou and Lavallee describes some of the major contributions to survey methodology made at Statistics Canada, one of the world's premier official statistics agencies"--
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Table of Contents:

1. Canadians studying abroad and the development of statistics in Canada / David R. Bellhouse and Stephen E. Fienberg
2. Some of statistics Canada's contributions to survey methodology / Jean-Franȯis Beaumont, Susie Fortier, Jack Gambino, Mike Hidiroglou, and Pierre Lavallě
3. Watching children grow taught us all we know / James O. Ramsay and Michael Hermanussen
4. Modeling dependence beyond correlation / Christian Genest and Johanna G. Ne?lehov ̀
5. Lasso and sparsity in statistics / Robert J. Tibshirani
6. Optimizing and adapting the metropolis algorithm / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
7. Design of computer experiments for optimization, estimation of function contours, and related objectives / Derek Bingham, Pritam Ranjan, and William J. Welch
8. Statistical genetic modeling and analysis of complex traits / Shelley B. Bull, Jinko Graham, and Celia M.T. Greenwood
9. Bayesian methods in Fisher's statistical genetics world / Radu V. Craiu and Lei Sun
10. Bayesian statistical methodology for observational health sciences data / Paul Gustafson
11. Statistical models for disease processes : markers and skeletal complications in cancer metastatic to bone / Richard J. Cook
12. Analysis of biased survival data : the Canadian study of health and aging and beyond / Masoud Asgharian, Christina Wolfson, and David B. Wolfson
13. Assessing the effect on survival of kidney transplantation with higher-risk donor kidneys / Douglas E. Schaubel and John D. Kalbfleisch
14. Risk-adjusted monitoring of outcomes in health care / Stefan H. Steiner
15. Statistics in financial engineering / Bruno Rm̌illard
16. Making personalized recommendations in e-commerce / Mu Zhu
17. What do salmon and injection drug users have in common? / Laura L.E. Cowen, Wendell O. Challenger, and Carl J. Schwarz
18. Capture-recapture methods for estimating the size of a population : dealing with variable capture probabilities / Louis-Paul Rivest and Sophie Baillargeon
19. Challenges in statistical marine ecology / Joanna Mills Flemming and Christopher A. Field
20. Quantifying the human and natural contributions to observed climate change / Francis W. Zwiers, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Xuebin Zhang, and Qiuzi Wen
21. Data hungry models in a food hungry world : an interdisciplinary challenge bridged by statistics / Louis Kouadio and Nathaniel Newlands.

Statistics in Action : a Canadian Outlook.

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