Robust Statistics, Data Analysis, and Computer Intensive Methods

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Bootstrap Variable—Selection and Confidence Sets

   • Rudolf Beran

   Pages 1-16

3. Robust Estimation in the Logistic Regression Model

   • Ana M. Bianco, Víctor J. Yohai

   Pages 17-34

4. The m out of n Bootstrap and Goodness of Fit Tests with Double Censored Data

   • Peter J. Bickel, Jian-Jian Ren

   Pages 35-47

5. What Criterion for a Power Algorithm?

   • Andreas Buja

   Pages 49-61

6. Nonparametric Estimation of Global Functionals of Conditional Quantiles

   • Probal Chaudhuri, Kjell Doksum, Alexander Samarov

   Pages 63-78

7. High Breakdown Point Estimators in Logistic Regression

   • Andreas Christmann

   Pages 79-89

8. The Guinea Pig of Multiple Regression

   • Yadolah Dodge

   Pages 91-117

9. When is a p-Value a Good Measure of Evidence?

   • Michael B. Dollinger, Elena Kulinskaya, Robert G. Staudte

   Pages 119-134

10. Geometric Properties of Principal Curves in the Plane

    • Tom Duchamp, Werner Stuetzle

    Pages 135-152

11. On Robust Estimation of Variograms in Geostatistics

    • Rudolf Dutter

    Pages 153-171

12. Advances in Nonparametric Function Estimation

    • Theo Gasser

    Pages 173-184

13. On the Philosophical Foundations of Statistics: Bridges to Huber’s work, and recent results

    • Frank Hampel

    Pages 185-196

14. Data Based Prototyping

    • Thomas M. Huber, Matthias Nagel

    Pages 197-213

15. Robust Regression with a Categorical Covariable

    • Mia Huber, Peter J. Rousseeuw

    Pages 215-224

16. Robustness in Discriminant Analysis

    • Y. S. Kharin

    Pages 225-234

17. M-Estimation and Spatial Quantiles

    • V. Koltchinskii

    Pages 235-250

18. Robust Statistical Methods in Interlaboratory Analytical Studies

    • Peter Lischer

    Pages 251-265

19. Estimating Distributions with a Fixed Number of Modes

    • Martin B. Mächler

    Pages 267-276

20. Implementing M-Estimators of the Gamma Distribution

    • A. Marazzi, C. Ruffieux

    Pages 277-297

To celebrate Peter Huber's 60th birthday in 1994, our university had invited for a festive occasion in the afternoon of Thursday, June 9. The invitation to honour this outstanding personality was followed by about fifty colleagues and former students from, mainly, allover the world. Others, who could not attend, sent their congratulations by mail and e-mail (P. Bickel:" ... It's hard to imagine that Peter turned 60 ... "). After a welcome address by Adalbert Kerber (dean), the following lectures were delivered. Volker Strassen (Konstanz): Almost Sure Primes and Cryptography -an Introduction Frank Hampel (Zurich): On the Philosophical Foundations of Statistics 1 Andreas Buja (Murray Hill): Projections and Sections­ High-Dimensional Graphics for Data Analysis. The distinguished speakers lauded Peter Huber a hard and fair mathematician, a cooperative and stimulating colleague, and an inspiring and helpful teacher. The Festkolloquium was surrounded with a musical program by the Univer­ 2 sity's Brass Ensemble. The subsequent Workshop "Robust Statistics, Data Analysis and Computer Intensive Methods" in Schloss Thurnau, Friday until Sunday, June 9-12, was organized about the areas in statistics that Peter Huber himself has markedly shaped. In the time since the conference, most of the contributions could be edited for this volume-a late birthday present-that may give a new impetus to further research in these fields.

• Clustering
• Estimator
• Logistic Regression
• STATISTICA
• best fit
• data analysis
• statistics

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