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This volume contains a selection of invited papers, presented to the fourth International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, from August 4–9, 2002. The contributions represent clear evidence to the importance of the development of theory, methods and applications related to the statistical data analysis based on the L1-norm.

Presented in this volume are recent results obtained in statistical analysis based on the L 1 -norm and related methods. The volume demonstrates new trends and directions in the field, and confirms the well-foundedness of the topic. The book will appeal to statisticians and research workers in all areas of applied sciences. It will also serve as a reference or a complementary text book in universities.

Review papers. 1. On the scholarly work of P.K. Bhattacharya / P. Hall and F.J. Samaniego. 2. The propensity score and its role in causal inference / C. Drake and T. Loux. 3. Recent tests for symmetry with multivariate and structured data: a review / S.G. Meintanis and J. Ngatchou-Wandji -- Papers on general nonparametric inference. 4. On robust versions of classical tests with dependent data / J. Jiang. 5. Density estimation by sampling from stationary continuous time parameter associated processes / G.G. Roussas and D. Bhattacharya. 6. A Short proof of the Feigin-Tweedie theorem on the existence of the mean functional of a Dirichlet process / J. Sethuraman. 7. Max-min Bernstein polynomial estimation of a discontinuity in distribution / K.-S. Song. 8. U-statistics based on higher-order spacings / D.D. Tung and S.R. Jammalamadaka. 9. Nonparametric models for non-Gaussian longitudinal data / N. Zhang, H.-G. Muller and J.-L. Wang -- Papers on aspects of linear or generalized linear models. 10. Better residuals / R. Beran. 11. The use of Peters-Belson regression in legal cases / E. Bura, J.L. Gastwirth and H. Hikawa. 12. On a hybrid approach to parametric and nonparametric regression / P. Burman and P. Chaudhuri. 13. Nonparametric regression models with integrated covariates / Z. Cai. 14. A dynamic test for misspecification of a linear model / M.P. McAssey and F. Hsieh. 15. The principal component decomposition of the basic martingale / W. Stute -- Papers on time series analysis. 16. Fast scatterplot smoothing using blockwise least squares fitting / A. Aue and T.C.M. Lee. 17. Some recent advances in semiparametric estimation of the GARCH model / J. Di and A. Gangopadhyay. 18. Extreme dependence in multivariate time series: a review / R. Sen and Z. Tan. 19. Dynamic mixed models for irregularly observed water quality data / R.H. Shumway -- Papers on asymptotic theory. 20. Asymptotic behavior of the kernel density estimators for nonstationary dependent random variables with binned data / J.-F. Lenain, M. Harel and M.L. Puri. 21. Convergence rates of an improved isotonic regression estimator / H. Mukerjee. 22. Asymptotic distribution of the smallest eigenvalue of Wishart(N, n) When N, n ' [symbol] such that N/n --> 0 / D. Paul

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