Books in the Contributions to Statistics series

Statisticians and experimentalists will find the latest trends in optimal experimental design research. Some papers are pioneering contributions, leading to new open research problems. It is a colection of peer reviewed papers.

The numerous applications (micro-arrays, paleo- ecological data, radar waveforms, spectrometric curves, speech recognition, continuous time series, 3-D images, etc.) in various fields (biology, econometrics, environmetrics, the food industry, medical sciences, paper industry, etc.) make researching this statistical topic very worthwhile.

This book covers methods for spatial statistical analysis suitable for modeling spatial information in support of decision systems. Includes data mining, point processes analysis, nearest neighbor statistics and cluster detection, Fuzzy Regression and more.

This book presents a collection of statistical methods and procedures to assess data coming from educational systems.