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Statistics in Genetics and in the Environmental Sciences

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Luisa Turrin Fernholz

    1. Department of Statistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Stephan Morgenthaler

    1. Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL-DMA, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Werner Stahel

    1. Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-SOL, Zürich, Switzerland

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Statistical Interaction with Quantitative Geneticists to Enhance Impact from Plant Breeding Programs

    • Kaye E. Basford
    Pages 1-15

  3. Outlier Resistance, Standardization, and Modeling Issues for DNA Microarray Data

    • Dhammika Amaratunga, Javier Cabrera
    Pages 17-26

  4. Variance Components Estimation with Uncertainty

    • Xiaoming Sheng, Chris Field
    Pages 27-39

  5. Robust Estimation for Chemical Concentration Data Subject to Detection Limits

    • Leo R. Korn, David E. Tyler
    Pages 41-63

  6. Risk Assessment of Low Dose Exposure to Carcinogens

    • Mendel Fygenson
    Pages 65-75

  7. A Stochastic Model of Carcinogenesis

    • Pablo Herrero, William G. Thilly, Stephan Morgenthaler
    Pages 77-87

  8. Statistical Modelling to Answer Key Questions in Atmospheric Chemistry: Three Case Studies

    • Johannes Staehelin, Werner A. Stahel
    Pages 89-103

  9. Space Debris: Flux in a Two Dimensional Orbit

    • David R. Brillinger
    Pages 105-116

  10. A Robust Approach to Common Principal Components

    • Graciela Boente, Liliana Orellana
    Pages 117-145

  11. A Robustified Version of Sliced Inverse Regression

    • Ursula Gather, Torsten Hilker, Claudia Becker
    Pages 147-157

  12. Similarities Between Location Depth and Regression Depth

    • Mia Hubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Stefan Van Aelst
    Pages 159-172

  13. Approximate τ—Estimates for Linear Regression Based on Subsampling of Elemental Sets

    • Jorge Adrover, Ana Bianco, Víctor Yohai
    Pages 173-183
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About this book

Statistics is strongly tied to applications in different scientific disciplines, and the most challenging statistical problems arise from problems in the sciences. In fact, the most innovative statistical research flows from the needs of applications in diverse settings. This volume is a testimony to the crucial role that statistics plays in scientific disciplines such as genetics and environmental sciences, among others. The articles in this volume range from human and agricultural genetic DNA research to carcinogens and chemical concentrations in the environment and to space debris and atmospheric chemistry. Also included are some articles on statistical methods which are sufficiently general and flexible to be applied to many practical situations. The papers were refereed by a panel of experts and the editors of the volume. The contributions are based on the talks presented at the Workshop on Statistics and the Sciences, held at the Centro Stefano Franscini in Ascona, Switzerland, during the week of May 23 to 28, 1999. The meeting was jointly organized by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, with the financial support of the Minerva Research Foundation. As the presentations at the workshop helped the participants recognize the po­ tential role that statistics can play in the sciences, we hope that this volume will help the reader to focus on the central role of statistics in the specific areas presented here and to extrapolate the results to further applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Luisa Turrin Fernholz

  • Department of Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL-DMA, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stephan Morgenthaler

  • Seminar for Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-SOL, Zürich, Switzerland

    Werner Stahel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Statistics in Genetics and in the Environmental Sciences

  • Editors: Luisa Turrin Fernholz, Stephan Morgenthaler, Werner Stahel

  • Series Title: Trends in Mathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8326-9

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-6575-2Published: 01 June 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9518-7Published: 01 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8326-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2297-0215

  • Series E-ISSN: 2297-024X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 183

  • Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistical Theory and Methods, Biochemistry, general

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