type="main" xml:id="rssb12040-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Differential equations are customarily used to describe dynamic systems. Existing methods for estimating unknown parameters in those systems include parameter cascade, which is a spline-based technique, and pseudo-least-squares, which is a...</p>

type="main" xml:id="rssb12067-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Errors-in-variables regression is important in many areas of science and social science, e.g. in economics where it is often a feature of hedonic models, in environmental science where air quality indices are measured with error, in biology where...</p>

type="main" xml:id="rssb12051-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We introduce a new method for improving the coverage accuracy of confidence intervals for means of lattice distributions. The technique can be applied very generally to enhance existing approaches, although we consider it in greatest detail in the...</p>

Many contemporary classifiers are constructed to provide good performance for very high dimensional data. However, an issue that is at least as important as good classification is determining which of the many potential variables provide key information for good decisions. Responding to this...

We develop a general non-parametric approach to the analysis of clustered data via random effects. Assuming only that the link function is known, the regression functions and the distributions of both cluster means and observation errors are treated non-parametrically. Our argument proceeds by...

In the study of variable stars, where the light reaching an observer fluctuates over time, it can be difficult to explain the nature of the variation unless it follows a regular pattern. In this respect, so-called periodic variable stars are particularly amenable to analysis. There, radiation...

Local likelihood methods enjoy advantageous properties, such as good performance in the presence of edge effects, that are rarely found in other approaches to nonparametric density estimation. However, as we argue in this paper, standard kernel methods can have distinct advantages when edge...

In studies of properties of queues, for example in relation to Internet traffic, a subject that is of particular interest is the 'shape' of service time distribution. For example, we might wish to know whether the service time density is unimodal, suggesting that service time distribution is...