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Geometry driven statistics / [edited by] Ian L. Dryden and John T. Kent.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley series in probability and statisticsPublication details: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2015.Description: xviii, 394 p. ; illustrations, photographsISBN:
  • 9781118866573 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 000SA.01 23 D799
Contents:
1. A conversation with Kanti Mardia-- 2. A conversation with Kanti Mardia: part II-- 3. Selected publications-- 4. Some advances in constrained inference for ordered circular parameters in oscillatory systems-- 5. Parametric circular-circular regression and diagnostic analysis-- 6. On two-sample tests for circular data based on spacing-frequencies-- 7. Barycentres and hurricane trajectories-- 8. Beyond procrustes: a proposal to save morphometrics for biology-- 9. Nonparametric data analysis methods in medical imaging-- 10. Some families of distributions on higher shape spaces-- 11. Elastic registration and shape analysis of functional objects-- 12. Evaluation of diagnostics for hierarchical spatial statistical models-- 13. Bayesian forecasting using spatiotemporal models with applications to ozone concentration levels in the Eastern United States-- 14.Visualisation-- 15. Fingerprint image analysis: role of orientation patch and ridge structure dictionaries-- 16. Do protein structures evolve around 'anchor' residues?-- 17. Individualised divergences-- 18. Proteins, physics and probability kinematics: a Bayesian formulation of the protein folding problem-- 19. MAD-Bayes matching and alignment for labelled and unlabelled configurations-- Index.
Summary: A timely collection of advanced, original material in the area of statistical methodology motivated by geometric problems, dedicated to the influential work of Kanti V. Mardia This volume celebrates Kanti V. Mardia's long and influential career in statistics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A conversation with Kanti Mardia--
2. A conversation with Kanti Mardia: part II--
3. Selected publications--
4. Some advances in constrained inference for ordered circular parameters in oscillatory systems--
5. Parametric circular-circular regression and diagnostic analysis--
6. On two-sample tests for circular data based on spacing-frequencies--
7. Barycentres and hurricane trajectories--
8. Beyond procrustes: a proposal to save morphometrics for biology--
9. Nonparametric data analysis methods in medical imaging--
10. Some families of distributions on higher shape spaces--
11. Elastic registration and shape analysis of functional objects--
12. Evaluation of diagnostics for hierarchical spatial statistical models--
13. Bayesian forecasting using spatiotemporal models with applications to ozone concentration levels in the Eastern United States--
14.Visualisation--
15. Fingerprint image analysis: role of orientation patch and ridge structure dictionaries--
16. Do protein structures evolve around 'anchor' residues?--
17. Individualised divergences--
18. Proteins, physics and probability kinematics: a Bayesian formulation of the protein folding problem--
19. MAD-Bayes matching and alignment for labelled and unlabelled configurations--
Index.

A timely collection of advanced, original material in the area of statistical methodology motivated by geometric problems, dedicated to the influential work of Kanti V. Mardia This volume celebrates Kanti V. Mardia's long and influential career in statistics.

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