Statistical Models of Shape

Mastering the Language of Data: From Distributions to Predictive Models

As in the previous meetings, the theory of copulas has arelevant place in this book, as well as promising research on the more general concept of quasi- copulas. Other papers are devoted to the theory and compatibility of distri- butions, models for survival distributions and other well-known distributions. As was traditional in the previous meetings, several papers treat the problem of measuring dependence, monotonicity and ordering. A new set of papers is devoted to proposing some statistical models in aspects such as goodness of fit assessment, testing independence, estimating association parameters, etc.

A rigorous, self-contained examination of mixed model theory and application
Mixed modeling is one of the most promising and exciting areas of statistical analysis, enabling the analysis of nontraditional, clustered data that may come in the form of shapes or images. This book provides in-depth mathematical coverage of mixed models’ statistical properties and numerical algorithms, as well as applications such as the analysis of tumor regrowth, shape, and image.