Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Science

This book gathers invited presentations from the 2nd Symposium of the ICSA- CANADA Chapter held at the University of Calgary from August 4-6, 2015. The aim of this Symposium was to promote advanced statistical methods in big-data sciences and to allow res

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Ding-Geng (Din) Chen Jiahua Chen Xuewen Lu Grace Y. Yi Hao Yu Editors

Advanced Statistical Methods in Data Science

ICSA Book Series in Statistics

Series editors Jiahua Chen Department of Statistics University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada Ding-Geng (Din) Chen University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13402

Ding-Geng (Din) Chen • Jiahua Chen • Xuewen Lu • Grace Y. Yi • Hao Yu Editors

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Editors Ding-Geng (Din) Chen School of Social Work University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Jiahua Chen Department of Statistics University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada

Department of Biostatistics Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Grace Y. Yi Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada

Xuewen Lu Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada

Hao Yu Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Western University London, ON, Canada

ISSN 2199-0980 ICSA Book Series in Statistics ISBN 978-981-10-2593-8 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2594-5

ISSN 2199-0999 (electronic) ISBN 978-981-10-2594-5 (eBook)

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To my parents and parents-in-law, who value higher education and hard work; to my wife Ke, for her love, support, and patience; and to my son John D. Chen and my daughter Jenny K. Chen for their love and support. Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, PhD To my wife, my daughter Amy, and my son Andy, whose admi