Advances and Challenges in Parametric and Semi-parametric Analysis for Correlated Data

This proceedings volume contains eight selected papers thatwere presented in the International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) 2015 OnAdvances in Parametric and Semi-parametric Analysis of Multivariate, TimeSeries, Spatial-temporal, and Familial-longitudinal Data, held in St. John''s,Canada from July 6 to 8, 2015. The main objective of the ISS-2015 was thediscussion on advances and challenges in parametric and semi-parametric analysisfor correlated data in both continuous and discrete setups. Thus, as areflection of the theme of the symposium, the eight papers of this proceedingsvolume are presented in four parts. Part I is comprised of papers examiningElliptical t Distribution Theory. In Part II, the papers cover spatial andtemporal data analysis. Part III is focused on longitudinal multinomial modelsin parametric and semi-parametric setups. Finally Part IV concludes with apaper on the inferences for longitudinal data subject to a challenge ofimportant covariates selection from a set of large number of covariatesavailable for the individuals in the study.