Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov Processes and Other Statistical Applications

Part I Invited Sessions: Youden Square with Split Units (Stanis aw Franciszek Mejza and Shinji Kuriki). - Likelihood and PLS Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: an Assessment of Sample Size, Skewness and Model Misspecification Effects (Manuel J. Vilares and Pedro S. Coelho). - Part II Communications: A Parametric Cure Model with Covariates (Ana M. Abreu and Cristina S. Rocha). - Survival Analysis Applied to the Study of Time from Diagnosis of HIV-1 Infection to AIDS in Portugal (Marta Alves, Cristina S. Rocha and Maria Teresa Paixão). - A new Independence Test for VaR Violations (P. Araújo Santos and M. I. Fraga Alves). - Discrimination Between Parametric Survival Models for Removal Times of Bird Carcasses in Scavenger Removal Trials at Wind Turbines Sites (Regina Bispo, Joana Bernardino, Tiago A. Marques and Dinis Pestana). - Uniformity (M. F. Brilhante, M. Malva, S. Mendonça, D. Pestana, F. Sequeira and S. Velosa). - Asymptotic Comparison at Optimal Levels of Minimum-Variance Reduced-Bias Tail Index Estimators (Frederico Caeiro and M. Ivette Gomes). - Extremal Behavior of the Generalized Integer-valued Random Coefficient Autoregressive Process (Luísa Canto e Castro, Dulce Gomes and Maria da Graça Temido). - Models of Individual Growth in a Random Environment: Study and Application of First Passage Times (Clara Carlos, Carlos A. Braumann and Patrícia A. Filipe). - Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data (Eunice Carrasquinha, M. Helena Gonçalves and M. Salomé Cabral). - Risk Assessment onCampylobacter in Broiler Meat at Slaughter Level in Portugal (Marta Castel-Branco, Marília Antunes, Patrícia Inácio and Miguel Cardo). - Predicting and Treating Missing Data with Boot. EXPOS (Clara Cordeiro and M. Manuela Neves). - Bayesian Genetic Mapping of Binary Trait Loci (César Correia, Nuno Sepúlveda and Carlos Daniel Paulino). - Concomitant Latent Class Models Applied to MathematicsEducation (Maria Eugénia Ferrão and José G. Dias). - Evaluating Discriminant Analysis Results (Ana Sousa Ferreira and Margarida Cardoso). - Distribution of the Number of Losses in Busy-periods of MX /G/1/n Systems (Fátima Ferreira, António Pacheco and Helena Ribeiro). - Misleading Signals in Simultaneous Residual Schemes for the Process Mean and Variance of AR(1) Processes: A Stochastic Ordering Approach (Patrícia Ferreira Ramos, Manuel Cabral Morais and António Pacheco). - Conditional EVT for VAR Estimation: Comparison with a new Independence Test (M. I. Fraga Alves and P. Araújo Santos). - Asymptotic Distribution of the Maximum for a Chaotic Economic Model (Ana Cristina Moreira Freitas). - Adaptive Choice of Thresholds and the Bootstrap Methodology: An Empirical Study (M. Ivette Gomes, Fernanda Figueiredo and M. Manuela Neves). - Distributional Properties of Generalized Threshold ARCH Models (E. Gonçalves and N. Mendes-Lopes). - Preliminary Results on Confidence Intervals for OpenBonus Malus (Gracinda R. Guerreiro, João T. Mexia and Maria F. Miguens). - Study of the Electrocardiographic Fluctuations on Brugada Syndrome Screening (Carla Henriques, Ana Cristina Matos and Luís Ferreira dos Santos). - Circulatory System Diseases and Neoplasms Mortality on Older Portuguese Population: A Spatio-temporal Analysis by Age and Sex (Sandra Lagarto, Carla Nunes, Dulce Gomes and Maria Filomena Mendes). - Absolute Diffusion Process: Sensitivity Measures (Manuela Larguinho, José Carlos Dias and Carlos A. Braumann). - Scaling Exponents in Heart Rate Variability (Argentina Leite, Maria Eduarda Silva and Ana Paula Rocha). - Prediction of Dementia Patients: A Comparative Approach Using Parametric vs. non Parametric Classifiers (João Maroco, Dina Silva, Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre de Mendonça and Isabel Santana). - Pareto Scale Mixtures (Miguel Martins Felgueiras). - Fitting Johnson s S_B distributionto Forest Tree Diameter (Ayana Mateus and Margarida Tomé). - On a Continuous Time Stock Price Model With two Mean Reverting Regimes (Pedro P. Mota). - Generalized F Tests in Models With Random Perturbations: The Truncated Normal Case (Célia Nunes, Dário Ferreira, Sandra Ferreira and João T. Mexia). - Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Additive Models and Neural Networks: Comparative Study in Medical Applications (Ana Luisa Papoila, Cristina Rocha, Carlos Geraldes and Patricia Xufre). - Joint Regression Analysis and Incorporation of Environmental Variables in Stochastic Frontier Production Function: An Application to Experimental Data of Winter Rye (Dulce Gamito Pereira and Ana Sampaio). - On the Maximum and Minimum of a Stationary Random Field (Luísa Pereira). - Publication Bias and Meta-analytic Syntheses (D. Pestana, M. L. Rocha, R. Vasconcelos and S. Velosa). - Self-perception of Health Status and Socio-economic Differences in the Use of Health Services (Alexandra Pinto, Victor Lobo, Fernando Bação and Helena Bacelar-Nicolau). - Comparison of Modal Variables Using Multivariate Analysis (Isabel Pinto Doria, Áurea Sousa, Helena Bacelar-Nicolau and Georges Le Calvé). - Disentangling the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation by Poisson Mixture Regressions (Leandro P. Pontes and José G. Dias). -Simulation Study of the Calibration Technique in the Extremal Index Estimation (D. Prata Gomes, João T. Mexia and M. Manuela Neves). - Semi-parametric Building of the Optimal Screening Region in Supervised Classification (Sandra Ramos, Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman and Marília Antunes). - An Application of Statistical Methods of Indirect Estimation and Projection of Internal Migration Flows Within the Portuguese Mainland (Maria FilomenaMendes, Antonio Caleiro, Sandra Lagarto and Filipe Ribeiro). - Robust Clustering Method for the Detection of Outliers: Using AIC to Select the Number of Clusters (Carla M. Santos-Pereira and Ana M. Pires). - HLA Allele and Haplotype Frequencies of the Portuguese Bone Marrow Donors Registry (Ricardo São João, Ana Luisa Papoila, Dário Ligeiro and Hélder Trindade). - Independent Component Analysis for Extended Time Series in Climate Data (Fernando Sebastião and Irene Oliveira). - Life Satisfaction: a MIMIC Approach With a Discrete Latent Variable (Patrícia Serra, José G. Dias and Maria de Fátima Salgueiro). - An Application of MRMC ROC Curves on Radiology (Carina Silva-Fortes, Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman, Luis Lança, Ricardo Silva and Gonçalo Marques). - Some Remarks About Gibbs Variable Selection Performance (Júlia Teles and Maria Antónia Amaral Turkman). - Dependence of Multivariate Extremes (C. Viseu, L. Pereira, A. P. Martins and H. Ferreira).