Topics in Nonparametric Statistics

A cost based reweighed scheme of Principal Support Vector Machine.- Power assessment of a new test of independence.- Empirical.- Divergence Minimizers for Hadamard Differentiable Functionals.- Advances in permutation tests for covariates in a mixture model for preference data analysis.- Semiparametric generalized estimating equations in misspecified models.- Local Covariance Estimation using Costationarity.- Stable Non-parametric Signal Filtration in Nonlinear Models.- Block bootstrap for the autocovariance coefficients of periodically correlated time series.- Bootstrapping Realized Bipower Variation.- Multiple testing approaches for removing background noise from images.- Peak-Load Forecasting using a Functional Semi-Parametric Approach.- An open problem on strongly consistent learning
of the best prediction for Gaussian processes.- Testing for equality of an increasing number of spectral density functions.- Multiscale local polynomial models for estimation and testing.- Distributions of Clusters of Exceedances and Their Applications in Telecommunication Networks.- Diagnostic procedures for spherically symmetric distributions.- A nonparametric causality test: Detection of direct causal effects in multivariate systems using Corrected Partial Transfer Entropy.- A high performance biomarker detection method for exhaled breath mass spectrometry data.- Local polynomials for variable selection.- On the CLT on Low Dimensional Stratified Spaces- Kernel Density Outlier Detector.- Model Selection for Classification with a Large Number of Classes.-Semiparametric Bayesian Small Area Estimation Based on Dirichlet Process Priors.- Bootstrap confidence intervals in nonparametric regression without an additive model.- Heteroskedastic linear regression: steps towards adaptivity, efficiency, and robustness- Level Set Estimation.- Nonparametric Permutation-Based Control Charts for Ordinal Data.- The latest advances on the Hill estimator and its modifications.- Multivariate

M.G. Akritas, S.N. Lahiri and D.N. Politis are the first executive committee members of ISNPS (the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics) and the editors of this volume.