partially linear models with measurement errors
Books Reviewed
using a SCAD penalty.
Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs, 2nd ed.
Bayesian readers will appreciate Ori Rosen,
Finn V. Jensen and Thomas D. Nielsen
David Stoffer, and Sally Wood’s study of spectral
analysis via mixtures of smoothing splines; Lionel
Computational Pharmacokinetics
Cucala, Jean-Michel Marin, Christian Robert,
Anders Källén
and D. M. Titterington’s discourse on nearest-
Econometric Modeling and Inference
neighbor classification; and Athanasios Micheas and
Jean-Pierre Florens, Vêlayoudom Marimoutou, and
Christopher Wikle’s disk growth model for storm
Anne Péguin-Feissolle
cell development.
The Theory and Methods selection is rounded
Finite Mixture and Markov Switching Models
out with papers about semiparametric factor dynam-
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
ics in time series (Byeong Park, Enno Mammen, Introduction to the Mathematics of Operations Research
Wolfgang Härdle, and Szymon Borak); nonstation- with Mathematica, 2nd ed.
ary time series classification by Piotr Fryzlewicz and Kevin J. Hastings and Douglas R. Shier
Hernando Ombao; testing GARCH coefficients
Introduction to Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials
by Christian Francq and Jean-Michel Zakoïan;
Thomas D. Cook and David L. DeMets
testing dependence among serially correlated cat-
egorical variables by M. Hashem Pesaran and Allan
Learning from Data: Concepts, Theory, and Methods,
Timmermann; ordered inference on a circle with
2nd ed.
applications to cell cycle genes by Cristina Rueda,
Vladimir Cherkassky and Felip Mulier
Miguel Fernández, and Shyamal Das Peddada;
Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric,
local polynomial estimation for the error-in-variables
Semiparametric, and Parametric Families
problem by Aurore Delaigle, Jianqing Fan, and
Albert W. Marshall and Ingram Olkin
Raymond Carroll; robust response transformations
by Alfio Marazzi, Ana Villar, and Victor Yohai; non-
Models for Probability and Statistical Inference: Theory
parametric quantile estimation for dynamic coefficient
and Applications
model by Zongwu Cai and Xiaoping Xu; rank esti-
James H. Stapleton
mation for linear models with cluster-correlated errors
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
by John Kloke, Joseph McKean, and Mushfiqur
John A. Lee and Michel Verleysen
Rashid; and the study of screening experiments for
the development of dynamic treatment regimes by
A Second Course in Probability
S. A. Murphy and D. Bingham.
Scheldon M. Ross and Erol A. Peköz
Semiparametric Theory and Missing Data
Reviews
Anastasios A. Tsiatis
There are no review papers in this issue. We encour-
A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern
age people to write these. Review papers tend to lead
Recognition
in the citation counts and offer a good way for new
Robert A. Dunne
researchers to exploit the literature reviews that appear
in their dissertations.
Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV
G. Joseph Babu and Eric D. Feigelson
Student Award
Statistical Design and Analysis of Stability Studies
Shein-Chung Chow
Statistical Test Theory for the Behavioral Sciences
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Dose-Response Specialty
Dato N. M. De Gruijter and Leo J. T. Van Der
Group is sponsoring a student award for graduate-student
Kamp
research. The research may be on any topic broadly related to
dose-response assessment applied to risk assessment. In addition
The Text Mining Handbook
to the peer recognition of the student’s scientific accomplish-
Ronen Feldman and James Sanger
ment, the award includes a registration fee waiver to the SRA Uncertain Judgments Eliciting Expert’s Probabilities
Annual Meeting in December, an engraved plaque, and a Anthony O’HA agan, Caitlin E. Buck, Alireza
$500 honorarium. Daneshkhah, J. Richard Eiser, Paul H. Garthwaite,
David J. Jenkinson, Jeremy E. Oakley, and
All student abstracts and application forms must be submitted
Tim Rakow ■
by May 25.
More information about the award is posted at
www.sra.org/drsg.
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