[...]... complexity of the models in the candidate collection About the Authors Joseph E Cavanaugh is Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at The University of Iowa He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (present) and the Journal of Forecasting (present) He has published over refereed articles Andrew Neath is a Professor of Mathematics... Moscow Teugels JL, Sundt B () The encyclopedia of actuarial science, vols Wiley, Hoboken, NJ Transactions of International Congress of Actuaries, vol ; J Inst Actuar, vol Adaptive Linear Regression Jana Jure kovỏ c Professor Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Consider a set of data consisting of n observations of a response variable Y and of vector of p explanatory variables X = (X... Association of America, Uganda Statistical Society, Makerere University, Bishop Stuart University, Uganda and Ankole Diocese, Church of Uganda James has been involved in planning and implementation of past Uganda censuses of population and housing of , , and He is currently helping the Liberian Statistical office to analyze the census data Professor Ntozi is a past Director of the Institute of Statistics... weak technical expertise at NSOs and lack of data for gender indicators About the Author Dr James P M Ntozi is a Professor of demographic statistics at the Institute of Statistics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda He is a founder and Past president of Uganda Statistical Society and Population Association of Uganda He was a Council member of the International Statistical Institute and Union for African... definition of data vector to a vector of indicators, in the sense that it contains measurements of development or deprivation of several sub-population groups or measurements of several dimensions of development or deprivation The measurements of development or deprivation are either available in the form of percentages or need to be transformed in the form of unit free indices Physical Quality of Life... Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and Council member of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences He has authored, coauthored, and presented over scientific papers as well as books on fertility and censuses in Africa He was an Editor of African Population Studies, co-edited books, and is currently on the editorial board of African Statistical Journal and the Journal of African Health Sciences... of X The criterion is a measure of the deviation of the model f from the true model g, or the best possible model for the handling of the present problem Professor Akaike died of pneumonia in Tokyo on th August , aged He was the Founding Head of the first Department of Statistical Science in Japan Now that he has left us forever, the world has lost one of its most innovative statisticians, the Japanese... using what became the analysis of variance If the results were of minor interest to farmers, the methods used were of enormous importance in establishing the new methodology of curve fitting, regression analysis and the analysis of variance Fishers work with agricultural scientists brought him a whole range of statistical challenges Working with small samples he saw the role of the statistician as one... Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health He was President, International Biometric Society (IBS), Eastern North American Region () and President, International Biometric Society () He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (), American Association for the Advancement of Science (), and Elected member, International Statistical Institute () He was Editor, References and Further Reading... innovative statisticians, the Japanese people have lost the finest statistician in their history and many of us a most noble friend (Professor Howell Tong, from The Obituary of Professor Hirotugu Akaike. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, March, ) Professor Akaike had sent his Encyclopedia entry on May , adding the following sentence in his email: This is all that I could do under . Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Econom- ical Sciences (RAES), Chairman of the Academic Council and Counsel of PhDs dissertations of RAES, Director of Russian. regression (LAR), a type of stepwise regression, with which the Miodrag Lovric (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, DOI ./----, ©