Alex Karagrigoriou, Teresa Oliveira and Christos H Skiadas, Eds

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Chapter 1

Statistical Models & Methods in Reliability & Quality Control

Ruiz-Castro, Juan Eloy

A Multi-State Cold Standby System Modelled Through a Marked Markovian Arrival Process

3-18

N. Eleftheroglou, T.H. Loutas, S. Malefaki

Stochastic modeling of fatigue damage in composite materials via Non Homogeneous Hidden Semi Markov Processes and health monitoring measurements

19-33

Pavel Praks, Vytis Kopustinskas

Probabilistic Modelling of the Effect of New Gas Infrastructure to Security of Supply

35-47

Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin and Anatoly Lisnianski

On Seasonal Demand Impact on Availability of Aging Multi-state Manufacturing System

49-61

Anatoli Paul Ulmeanu, Vlad-Stefan Barbu, and Andrei Budu

Improving the Fault Tree Analysis with Uncertainties for the Assessment of Power Systems Dependability

63-82

Fotini Dimou, Alex Karagrigoriou, and Andreas Makrides

Control Charts for the Coefficient of Variation

83-95

Chapter 2

Statistical Models and Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Mitchell A Thomann, Eric D Foster, Christopher S Coffey

Exploring the Modification of Sample Size in Phase I Trials Using the Continual Reassessment Method on Proof-of-concept During Drug Development

99-110

Piaomu Liu and Edsel A. Peña

Dynamic Modeling & Analysis of Recurrent Competing Risks and a Terminal Event

111-127

Filia Vonta, Christos Koukouvinos, and Emmanouil Androulakis

On the Asymptotic Properties of the Penalized Likelihood Estimators in Shared Frailty Models

129-142

Patrick Ten Eyck and Joseph E. Cavanaugh

The Adjusted Concordance Statistic

143-156

Chapter 3

Demography Issues

K.C. Chan, C.T. Lenard, T.M. Mills, and Ruth F.G. Williams

Bowel Cancer Demographics

159-171

Maria Symeonaki

Identifying Quality of Life patterns in the third age: a cluster analysis approach with evidence from SHARE

173-183

Alejandro Aguirre, Fortino Vela-Peón

Infant Mortality reduction in Mexico: Is there a Matthew Effect?

185-195

Kornélia Cséfalvaiová, Jana Langhamrová, and Jitka Langhamrová

The Study of Population Ageing in the Context of Adult Health Status in the Czech Republic

197-206

Tomas Fiala and Jitka Langhamrova

Computations of retirement age based on generation life tables

207-216

Jana Langhamrová, Kornélia Cséfalvaiová and Jitka Langhamrová

Longevity and Mortality at Older Ages in the Czech Republic

217-228

Konstantinos N. Zafeiris and Christos H. Skiadas

An application of the first exit time theory in some European populations

229-249

Christos H. Skiadas and Konstantinos N. Zafeiris

Comparing WHO and First Exit Time Theory’s estimations of healthy life expectancy in Europe

251-266

Chapter 4

Data Analysis

Julia Geronimi and Gilbert Saporta

The Effect of Missing Visits on GEE, a Simulation Study

269-276

Evy Rombaut and Marie-Anne Guerry

Decision trees as a Classification Technique in Manpower Planning

277-291

Veska Noncheva, Dida Iserliyska, Vasilka Sabeva

A Stepwise Application of Longitudinal Data Analysis for Shelf Life determination of Foods

293-300

Francisco E. Martínez-Castañeda, Ana Lorga da Silva, Rodolfo R. Posadas-Domínguez

An approximation of Ingredients Usage and the Effect on Dairy Milk Yield

301-308

Zhuopeng Jiang & Jim Freeman

On understanding company perceptions of risk – a text mining application

309-322

Leonor Fernandes, Roberto Henriques, Victor Lobo

Selecting instances with self-organizing maps: Sampling data of aircraft engines

323-335

Ivan Nagy, Evgenia Suzdaleva, and Tereza Mlynářová

Mixture Multi-Step-Ahead Prediction

337-348

Teresa A. Oliveira, Amilcar Oliveira, and Carla Francisco

Combinatorial designs as a tool to recover information from damaged QR codes

349-354

Chapter 5

Option Theory

Stefane Saize

American-style Asian Options Under Jump-diffusion Processes with Geometric Average

357-369

Tome Eduardo Sicuaio

Knock Out Power Options In Foreign Exchange Markets

371-383

Chapter 6

Reliability

Krzysztof Kolowrocki, and Joanna Soszynska-Budny

Identification of complex technical system components reliability models

387-400

Krzysztof Kołowrocki, Ewa Kuligowska and Joanna Soszyńska-Budny

401-414

Kwiatuszewska-Sarnecka Bozena

Reliability and Risk Function Improvement of Bulk Cargo Transportation System

415-426

Krzysztof Kołowrocki and Mateusz Torbicki

Reliability of large one-dimensional nanosystems

427-440

Lu Jin

Optimal Inspection Policy for Scheduled Maintenance of Markovian Deteriorating Systems

441-454

Chapter 7

Models and Modeling / Scan Statistics

Jean-Paul Murara, Anatoliy Malyarenko, and Sergei Silvestrov
Modelling Electricity Price Series using Regime-Switching GARCH Model

457-469

Krzysztof Kolowrocki, and Joanna Soszynska-Budny

Modelling and Statistical Identification of Complex Technical System Operation Process

471-484

Maria Douli

Estimating Functions in the Presence of a Nuisance Parameter

485-495

N.N.Novitsky and O.V.Vanteyeva

Probabilistic Modeling of Temperature Conditions in the Pipeline Networks

497-514

Markos V. Koutras and Demetrios P. Lyberopoulos

New bounds for the scan statistic distribution via a N-demimartingale approach

515-527

Vasileios M. Koutras, Markos V. Koutras, and Femin Yalcin

A Compound Scan Statistic Distribution with Applications in Risk Management

529-542

Markos V. Koutras and Elisavet M. Sofikitou

A Bivariate Semiparametric Control Chart Based on Order Statistics

543-553

Author Index

555-556