modelingandcomputationallyintensivemethodsforestimationandprediction",held ? atthePolitecnicodiMilano. S. Co. isaforumforthediscussionofnewdevelopments ? September14-16, 2009. Thatof2009isitssixthedition, the?rstonebeingheldinVenice in1999. VI Preface andapplicationsofstatisticalmethodsandcomputationaltechniquesforcomplexand highlydimensionaldatasets. Thebookisaddressedtostatisticiansworkingattheforefrontofthestatistical analysisofcomplexandhighlydimensionaldataandoffersawidevarietyofstatistical models, computerintensivemethodsandapplications. Wewishtothankallassociateeditorsandrefereesfortheirvaluablecontributions thatmadethisvolumepossible. MilanandVenice, May2010 PietroMantovan PiercesareSecchi Contents Space-timetextureanalysisinthermalinfraredimagingforclassi?cation ofRaynaud'sPhenomenon GrazianoAretusi, LaraFontanella, LuigiIppolitiandArcangeloMerla. . . . . . 1 Mixed-effectsmodellingofKevlar?brefailuretimesthroughBayesian non-parametrics RaffaeleArgiento, AlessandraGuglielmiandAntonioPievatolo. . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Space?llingandlocallyoptimaldesignsforGaussianUniversalKriging AlessandroBaldiAntogniniandMaroussaZagoraiou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Exploitation, integrationandstatisticalanalysisofthePublicHealth DatabaseandSTEMIArchiveintheLombardiaregion PietroBarbieri, Niccolo`Grieco, FrancescaIeva, AnnaMariaPaganoniand PiercesareSecchi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Bootstrapalgorithmsforvarianceestimationin PSsampling AlessandroBarbieroandFulviaMecatti. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 FastBayesianfunctionaldataanalysisofbasalbodytemperature JamesM. Ciera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 AparametricMarkovchaintomodelage-andstate-dependentwear processes MassimilianoGiorgio, MaurizioGuidaandGianpaoloPulcini. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 CasestudiesinBayesiancomputationusingINLA SaraMartinoandHav ? ardRue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Agraphicalmodelsapproachforcomparinggenesets M. So?aMassa, MonicaChiognaandChiaraRomualdi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 VIII Contents Predictivedensitiesandpredictionlimitsbasedonpredictivelikelihoods PaoloVidoni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Computer-intensiveconditionalinference G. AlastairYoungandThomasJ. DiCiccio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 MonteCarlosimulationmethodsforreliabilityestimationandfailure prognostics EnricoZio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 ListofContributors AlessandroBaldiAntognini JamesM. Ciera DepartmentofStatisticalSciences DepartmentofStatisticalSciences UniversityofBologna UniversityofPadova Bologna, Italy Padova, Italy ThomasJ. DiCiccio GrazianoAretusi DepartmentofSocialStatistics DepartmentofQuantitativeMethods CornellUniversity andEconomicTheory Ithaca, USA UniversityG. d'Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Italy LaraFontanella DepartmentofQuantitativeMethods RaffaeleArgiento andEconomicTheory CNRIMATI UniversityG. d'Annunzio Milan, Italy Chieti-Pescara, Italy MassimilianoGiorgio PietroBarbieri DepartmentofAerospace Uf?cioQualita` andMechanicalEngineering CernuscosulNaviglio, Italy SecondUniversityofNaples Aversa(CE),Italy AlessandroBarbiero DepartmentofEconomics Niccolo`Grieco BusinessandStatistics A. O. NiguardaCa`Granda UniversityofMilan Milan, Italy Milan, Italy MaurizioGuida MonicaChiogna DepartmentofElectrical DepartmentofStatisticalSciences andInformationEngineering UniversityofPadova UniversityofSalerno Padova, Italy Fisciano(SA),Italy X ListofContributors AlessandraGuglielmi AntonioPievatolo DepartmentofMathematics CNRIMATI PolitecnicodiMilano Milan, Italy Milan, Italy GianpaoloPulcini alsoaf?liatedtoCNRIMATI, Milano IstitutoMotori NationalResearchCouncil(CNR) FrancescaIeva Naples, Italy MOX-DepartmentofMathematics PolitecnicodiMilano ChiaraRomualdi Milan, Italy DepartmentofBiology UniversityofPadova LuigiIppoliti Padova, Italy DepartmentofQuantitativeMethods andEconomicTheory H?avardRue UniversityG. d'Annunzio DepartmentofMathematicalSciences Chieti-Pescara, Italy NorwegianUniversityforScience andTechnology SaraMartino Trondheim, Norway DepartmentofMathematicalSciences NorwegianUniversityforScience PiercesareSecchi andTechnology MOX-DepartmentofMathematics Trondheim, Norway PolitecnicodiMilano Milan, Italy M. So?aMassa DepartmentofStatisticalSciences PaoloVidoni UniversityofPadova DepartmentofStatistics Padova, Italy UniversityofUdine Udine, Italy FulviaMecatti DepartmentofStatistics G. | Complex data modeling and computationally intensive statistical methods by | Complex data modeling and computationally intensive statistical methods by Pietro Mantovan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters