The classical model selection criteria, such as the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) or Akaike information criterion (AIC), have a strong tendency to overestimate the number of regressors when the search is performed over a large number of potential explanatory variables. To handle the...

In multiple testing, a challenging issue is to provide an accurate estimation of the proportion [pi]0 of true null hypotheses among the whole set of tests. Besides a biological interpretation, this parameter is involved in the control of error rates such as the False Discovery Rate. Improving...

Random forest, a data-mining technique which uses multiple classification or regression trees, is a popular algorithm used for prediction. Inference and goodness-of-fit assessment, however, may require an estimator of variability; in many applications the residual variance is of primary...

Mixtures of factor analyzers have been receiving wide interest in statistics as a tool for performing clustering and dimension reduction simultaneously. In this model it is assumed that, within each component, the data are generated according to a factor model. Therefore, the number of...

The proportional hazards model is widely used to deal with time to event data in many fields. However, its popularity is limited to right-censored data, for which the partial likelihood is available and the partial likelihood method allows one to estimate the regression coefficients directly...

In this paper, we present new multivariate quantile distributions and utilise likelihood-free Bayesian algorithms for inferring the parameters. In particular, we apply a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm that is adaptive in nature and requires very little tuning compared with other...

A principal component method for multivariate functional data is proposed. Data can be arranged in a matrix whose elements are functions so that for each individual a vector of p functions is observed. This set of p curves is reduced to a small number of transformed functions, retaining as much...

Construction of nonlinear time series models with a flexible probabilistic structure is an important challenge for statisticians. Applications of such a time series model include ecology, economics and finance. In this paper we consider a threshold model for all the first four conditional...

Bayes factor (BF) is often used to measure evidence against the null hypothesis in Bayesian hypothesis testing. In the analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) studies, extreme BF values support the associations detected based on significant p-values. Results from recent GWA studies are...

In this paper, three predictive power measures for generalized linear models (GLMs) are compared, and the utility of the entropy correlation coefficient (ECC) and the entropy coefficient of determination (ECD) is demonstrated. First, ECC, ECD and the regression correlation coefficient (RCC) are...