Nonparametric Statistics

Highlighting the latest advances in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics, this book gathers selected peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 4th Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS), held in Salerno, Italy, on June 11-15, 2018. It covers theory, methodology, applications and computational aspects, addressing topics such as nonparametric curve estimation, regression smoothing, models for time series and more generally dependent data, varying coefficient models, symmetry testing, robust estimation, and rank-based methods for factorial design. It also discusses nonparametric and permutation solutions for several different types of data, including ordinal data, spatial data, survival data and the joint modeling of both longitudinal and time-to-event data, permutation and resampling techniques, and practical applications of nonparametric statistics.

The International Society for Nonparametric Statistics is a unique global organization, and its international conferences are intended to foster the exchange of ideas and the latest advances and trends among researchers from around the world and to develop and disseminate nonparametric statistics knowledge. The ISNPS 2018 conference in Salerno was organized with the support of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics and the University of Salerno.

Presents the latest advances in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics Addresses theory, methodology, applications, and computational aspects Includes contributions on nonparametric curve estimation and nonparametric and permutation solutions for several types of data

Autorentext
Michele La Rocca is a Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Salerno, Italy. He has published scientific papers on empirical likelihood, nonlinear time series and neural networks, resampling techniques, with applications to biological and financial data. He is an elected member of ISI and a former member of the Charting Committee of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics.

Brunero Liseo has been a Full Professor of Statistics at the School of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, since 2002. He has published more than 60 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include Bayesian inference, distribution theory, official statistics, and stochastic processes. He is the Director of the Ph.D. School of Economics, Sapienza, and a member of the Advisory Board of ISTAT, and of NADO Italia - the National Anti-Doping Organization, the Italian chapter of WADA.

Luigi Salmaso is a Full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Management and Engineering at the University of Padua, Italy. He is the author and creator of the NonParametric Combination Test software for multivariate and multistrata permutation tests. He has published more than 100 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His main research interests include nonparametric statistics, multivariate analysis, conjoint analysis, big data analytics, and biostatistics. He has received over 3000 citations and written a leading book on permutation testing. He is an Associate Editor for various international ISI journals.

Inhalt
Preface.- Portfolio optimisation via graphical least squares estimation (Saeed Aldahmani, Hongsheng Dai, Qiao-Zhen Zhang and Marialuisa Restaino).- Change of Measure Applications in Nonparametric Statistics (Mayer Alvo).- Choosing between weekly and monthly volatility drivers within a Double Asymmetric GARCH-MIDAS model (Alessandra Amendola, Vincenzo Candila and Giampiero M. Gallo).- Goodness-of-fit test for the baseline hazard rate (Anfriani, A. and Butucea, C. and Gerardin E. and Jeantheau, T. and Lecleire U.).- Permutation tests for multivariate stratified data: synchronized or unsynchronized permutations? (Rosa Arboretti, Eleonora Carrozzo and Luigi Salmaso).- An extension of the dgLARS method to high-dimensional relative risk regression models (Luigi Augugliaro, Ernst C. Wit and Angelo M. Mineo).- A kernel goodness-of-fit test for maximum likelihood density estimates of normal mixtures. (Dimitrios Bagkavos and Prakash N. Patil)- Robust estimation of sparse signal with unknown sparsity cluster value (Eduard Belitser, Nurzhan Nurushev, and Paulo Serra).- Test for sign effect in intertemporal choice experiments: a nonparametric solution (Stefano Bonnini and Isabel Maria Parra Oller).- Nonparametric first-order analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal point processes (M.I. Borrajo, I. Fuentes-Santos and W. Gonzalez-Manteiga).- Bayesian nonparametric prediction with multi-sample data (Federico Camerlenghi, Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster).- Algorithm for Automatic Description of Historical Series of Forecast Error in Electrical Power Grid (Gaia Ceresa, Andrea Pitto, Diego Cirio and Nicolas Omont).- Linear wavelet estimation in regression with additive and multiplicative noise (Christophe Chesneau, Junke Kou and Fabien Navarro).- Speeding up algebraic-based sampling via permutations (Francesca Romana Crucinio and Roberto Fontana).- Obstacle Problems For Nonlocal Operators: A Brief Overview (Donatella Danielli, Arshak Petrosyan, and Camelia A. Pop).- Low and high resonance components restoration in multichannel data (Daniela De Canditiis and Italia De Feis).- Kernel circular deconvolution density estimation (Marco Di Marzio, Stefania Fensore, Agnese Panzera, Charles C. Taylor).- Asymptotic for Relative Frequency when Population is Driven by Arbitrary Unknown Evolution (Silvano Fiorin).- Semantic keywords clustering to optimize Text Ads campaigns (Pietro Fodra, Emmanuel Pasquet, Guillaume Mohr, Bruno Goutorbe, and Matthieu Cornec).- A Note on Robust Estimation of the Extremal Index (M. Ivette Gomes, Cristina Miranda and Manuela Souto de Miranda).- Multivariate permutation tests for ordered categorical data (Huiting Huang, Fortunato Pesarin, Rosa Arboretti, Riccardo Ceccato).- Smooth nonparametric survival analysis (Dimitrios Ioannides and Dimitrios Bagkavos).- Density estimation using multiscale local polynomial transforms (Maarten Jansen).- On Sensitivity of Metalearning: An Illustrative Study for Robust Regression (Jan Kalina).- Function-parametric empirical processes, projections and unitary operators (Estáte Khmaladze).- Rank-based Analysis of Multivariate Data in Factorial Designs and Its Implementation in R (Maximilian Kiefel and Arne C. Bathke).- Tests for Independence Involving Spherical Data (Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Simos Meintanis and Thomas Verdebout).- Interval-Wise Testing of Functional Data Defined on Two-dimensional Domains(Patrick B. Langthaler, Alessia Pini and Arne C. Bathke).- Assessing Data Support for the Simplifying Assumption in Bivariate Conditional Copulas (Evgeny Levi and Radu V. Craiu).- Semiparametric weighting estimations of a zero-inflated Poisson regression with missing in covariates (Lukusa, M.T. and Phoa, F.K.H.).- The Discrepancy Method for Extremal Index Estimation (Natalia Markovich).- Correction for optimisation bias in structured sparse high-dimensional variable selection (Bastien Marquis and Maarten Jansen).- United Statistical Algorithms and Data Science: An Introduction To The Principles (Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay).- The Halfspace Depth Characterization Problem (Stanislav Nagy).- A component multiplicative error model for realized volatility measures (Antonio Naimoli and Giuseppe Storti).- Asymptotically distribution-free goodness-of-fit tests for testing independence in contingency tables of large dimensions (Thuong T. M. Nguyen).- Incorporating model uncertainty in the construction of bootstrap prediction intervals for functional time series (Efstathios Paparoditis and Han Lin Shang).- Measuring and Estimating Overlap of Distributions: A comparison of approaches from vario…