Statistics for Data Science and Policy Analysis (Paperback)

Part I. Applied Statistics and Bayesian Modeling.- 1. Applied Bayesian Modeling for Assessment of Interpretation Uncertainty in Spatial Domain.- 2. Computing Robust Statistics via an EM Algorithm.- 3. Determining Risk Factors of Antenatal Care Attendance and its Frequency in Bangladesh: An Application of Count Regression Analysis.- 4. On Propensity Score Methodology.- 5. Asking Good Questions to Understand Voluntary Enrolments in Mathematics.- PART II. Agricultural Statistics and Policy Analysis.- 6. Modeling for Prospect of Aman Rice Production in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh.- 7. Impacts and Determinants of Adoption in River-based Tilapia Cage Culture.- 8. Policy into Practice; Statistics the Forgotten Gatekeeper.- 9. Nutrient Loading in the River Systems around Major Cities in Bangladesh: a Quantitative Estimate with Consequences and Potential Recycling Options.- 10. Analysing Informal Milk Supply Chains Data to Identify Seasonal Occurrences of Antibiotic Residues.- Part III. Data Science and Image Processing Statistics.- 11. Detection of Vegetation in Enviromental Repeat Photography: A New Algorithmic Approach in Data Science.- 12. Can Data Fusion increase the Performance of Action Detection in the Dark?.- 13. Data privacy and Security in the Cloud.- 14. Evaluating Faster-RCNN and YOLOv3 for Target Detection in Multi-sensor Data.- 15. Wavelet-based Quantile Density Function Estimation under Random Censorship.- Part IV. Health Statistics and Social Policy.- 16. Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease among Elderly People in Different Communities.- 17. Finite Mixture Modelling Approach to Identify Factors Affecting Children ever Born for 15-49 Year Old Women in Asian Country.- 18. An Assessment of Influencing Factors for Motherhood During Childhood in Bangladesh Using Factor Analysis and Logistic Regression Methods.- 19. Effect of Women’s Education on Skilled Birth Attendants in South and South East Asia: A Cross-country assessment on Sustainable Development Goal 3.1.- Part V. SMALL Area Estimation and Spatial Microsimulation.- 20. Estimation of Child Undernutrition at Disaggregated Administrative Tiers of a North-Eastern District of Bangladesh: An Application of Small Area Estimation Method.- 21. Using a Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model for Australia to Estimate the Impact of an External Shock on Farmer Incomes.- Part VI. Business Analytics and Managements Policy Analysis.- 22. A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen.- 23. Finding Significant Determinants and Impacts of Farm-Level Integrated Pest Management Practices Using Statistical Tools.- 24. Consumers Adoption Behavior Prediction through Technology Acceptance Model and Machine Learning Models.- 25. Shaping the Future of Multidimensional Project Management in Re-Tail Industry Using Statistical and Big-Data Theories.- 26. Technical Efficiency and Value Chain Analysis of Potato in a South-East Asian Country.- 27. Modelling and Analysis of Computer Experiments using a Simple Pendulum Model.