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Call for papers
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
Special Issue on
STATISTICS FOR FUNCTIONAL DATA
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/csda
In the recent past years, many scientific fields in which applied
statistics is involved are recording continuous/functional
data. Basically, the scope of disciplines for which such
functional data (or curves data) may appear is covering as well
medicine, econometrics, environmetrics, biostatistics, geophysics,
chemometrics, etc.
It is therefore a real challenge for the statistical community to
develop new tools able to deal with such a functional data context. This
challenge has both theoretical and applied implications.
The aim of this special issue is to present a scope of papers
covering foundations, methodology and applications in functional data
statistical analysis. Papers in the following topics will be
particularly welcome:
-> linear and generalized linear models for functional data;
-> nonparametric modelling for functional regression
-> bootstrapping functional data
-> learning with functional data (boosting, bagging,neural
networks....)
-> classification/discrimination of functional data;
-> testing hypothesis and model selection;
The Methodological domain to be investigated may encompass both
exploratory and inferential techniques. Invitation to submitting
is also extended to original applications. The papers submitted to
the special issue must have a computational or data analytic
component in order to be considered for publication.
Authors should submit their papers to the special issue editors.
The papers must contain original unpublished work that is not being
submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts submitted to
this special issue will be refereed according to standard procedures
for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Information about the
journal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csda
The DEADLINE for submissions is December 15, 2005
The editorial process is expected to proceed rapidly thereafter.
Submission electronically is encouraged. Please e-mail a postscript or
PDF file of your manuscript to one of the special issue editors:
Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga
Departamento de Estadstica e Investigacin Operativa
University of Santiago de Compostela
15782, Santiago de Compostela
Spain
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Philippe Vieu
Laboratoire Statistique et Probabilites
Universite Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse
France
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