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The Importance of Districts. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tymms, P., Merrell, C., Heron, T., Jones, P., Albone, S., & Henderson, B. (2006). The Importance of Districts.

Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Einbeck, J., Augustin, T., & Singer, J. M. (2007). Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants. In J. del Castillo, A. Espinal, & P. Puig (Eds.),

We investigate design-weighted local smoothing and show that the optimal (bias-minimizing) weights have similar form and interpretation as the optimal weights given by the Horvitz-Thompson theorem known from sampling theory. We set forth that the haz... Read More about Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants.

Analyzing Irish suicide rates with mixture models (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sofroniou, N., Einbeck, J., Hinde, J., & Newell, J. (2006). Analyzing Irish suicide rates with mixture models. In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling: IWSM 2006, 3-7 July 2006, Galway, Ireland (474-481)

In the analysis of morbidity and mortality data, variance component models are commonly used to provide an improvement in the estimation of rates for small regions which typically show large variability. This article investigates Irish suicide data u... Read More about Analyzing Irish suicide rates with mixture models.

The fitting of multifunctions: an approach to nonparametric multimodal regression (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Einbeck, J., & Tutz, G. (2006). The fitting of multifunctions: an approach to nonparametric multimodal regression. In A. Rizzi, & M. Vichi (Eds.), COMPSTAT 2006 : proceedings in computational statistics, 17th symposium held in Rome, Italy, 2006 (1251-1258)

In the last decades a lot of research has been devoted to smoothing in the sense of nonparametric regression. However, this work has nearly exclusively concentrated on fitting regression functions. When the conditional distribution of y|x is multimod... Read More about The fitting of multifunctions: an approach to nonparametric multimodal regression.

Model free endurance markers based on the second derivative of blood lactate curves (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Newell, J., Einbeck, J., Madden, N., & McMillan, K. (2005). Model free endurance markers based on the second derivative of blood lactate curves. In A. R. Francis, K. M. Matawie, A. Oshlack, & G. K. Smyth (Eds.), Statistical solutions to modern problems ; proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Sydney, Australia, July 10-15, 2005 (357-364)

Blood lactate assessment is used regularly by exercise physiologists as a predictor of endurance performance. Typically fingertip blood samples are collected at selected running speeds on a treadmill and a plot of lactate concentration against worklo... Read More about Model free endurance markers based on the second derivative of blood lactate curves.

A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Newell, J., & Einbeck, J. (2007). A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators. In J. del Castillo, A. Espinal, & P. Puig (Eds.),

Nonparametric derivative estimation has never attracted much attention as one gets the derivative estimates as ``by-products'' from a local polynomial or spline fit. However, these estimates often suffer from boundary effects and are very sensitive t... Read More about A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators..

Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Local Principal Curves (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Einbeck, J., Tutz, G., & Evers, L. (2005). Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Local Principal Curves. In C. Weihs, & W. Gaul (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, 9-11 March 2004, University of Dortmund (256-263)

A new approach to find the underlying structure of a multidimensional data cloud is proposed, which is based on a localized version of principal components analysis. More specifically, we calculate a series of local centers of mass and move through t... Read More about Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Local Principal Curves.

The Assessment Revolution (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tymms, P., & Merrell, C. (2005). The Assessment Revolution.