New Developments in Statistical Modeling, Inference and Application

Part I. Theoretical Development in Statistical Modeling

1. Dual Model Misspecification in Generalized Linear Models with Error in Variables
Xianzheng Huang

2. Joint Analysis of Longitudinal Data and Informative Observation Times with Time-Dependent Random Effects
Yang Li, Xin He, Haiying Wang, Jianguo Sun

3. A Markov Switching Model with Stochastic Regimes with Application to Business Cycle Analysis
Haipeng Xing, Ning Sun, Ying Chen

4. Direction Estimation in a General Regression Model with Discrete Predictors
Yuexiao Dong, Zhou Yu

Part II. New Developments in Trial Design

5. Futility Boundary Design Based on Probability of Clinical Success Under New Drug Development Paradigm
Yijie Zhou, Ruji Yao, Bo Yang, Ramachandran Suresh

6. Bayesian Modeling of Time Response and Dose Response for Predictive Interim Analysis of a Clinical Trial
Ming-Dauh Wang, Dominique A. Williams, Elisa V. Gomez, Jyoti N. Rayamajhi

7. An ROC Approach to Evaluate Interim Go/No-Go Decision-Making Quality with Application to Futility Stopping in the Clinical Trial Designs
Deli Wang, Lu Cui, Lanju Zhang, Bo Yang

Part III. Novel Applications and Implementation

8. Recent Advancements in Geovisualization, with a Case Study on Chinese Religions
Jürgen Symanzik, Shuming Bao, XiaoTian Dai, Miao Shui, Bing She

9. The Efficiency of Next-Generation Gibbs-Type Samplers: An Illustration Using a Hierarchical Model in Cosmology
Xiyun Jiao, David A. Dyk, Roberto Trotta, Hikmatali Shariff

10. Dynamic Spatial Pattern Recognition in Count Data
Xia Wang, Ming-Hui Chen, Rita C. Kuo, Dipak K. Dey

11. Bias-corrected Estimators of Scalar Skew Normal
Guoyi Zhang, Rong Liu

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