Handbook of Big Data Analytics

Wolfgang Karl Härdle is a Professor of Statistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of CASE the Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics. He teaches quantitative finance and semi-parametric statistical methods. His research focuses on dynamic factor models, multivariate statistics in finance and computational statistics. He is an elected member of the ISI and an advisor to the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and to National Central University, Taiwan.

Henry Horng-Shing Lu is a Professor at the National Chiao Tung University's Institute of Statistics in Taiwan. He is also the Chairman of the University's Interdisciplinary Sciences Degree Program in the College of Science. His research interests are in the field of interdisciplinary studies related to statistics, medical images and bioinformatics.

Preface.- Statistics, Statisticians, and the Internet of Things (John M. Jordan and Dennis K. J. Lin).- Cognitive Data Analysis for Big Data (Jing Shyr, Jane Chu and Mike Woods).- Statistical Leveraging Methods in Big Data (Xinlian Zhang, Rui Xie and Ping Ma).- Scattered Data and Aggregated Inference (Xiaoming Huo, Cheng Huang and Xuelei Sherry Ni).- Nonparametric Methods for Big Data Analytics (Hao Helen Zhang).- Finding Patterns in Time Series (James E. Gentle and Seunghye J. Wilson).- Variational Bayes for Hierarchical Mixture Models (Muting Wan, James G. Booth and Martin T. Wells).- Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Data (Wei Biao Wu, Zhipeng Lou and Yuefeng Han).- High-Dimensional Classification (Hui Zou).- Analysis of High-Dimensional Regression Models Using Orthogonal Greedy Algorithms (Hsiang-Ling Hsu, Ching-Kang Ing and Tze Leung Lai).- Semi-Supervised Smoothing for Large Data Problems (Mark Vere Culp, Kenneth Joseph Ryanand George Michailidis).- Inverse Modeling: A Strategy to Cope with Non-Linearity (Qian Lin, Yang Li and Jun S. Liu).- Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Tensor Data (Yiwen Liu, Xin Xing and Wenxuan Zhong).- Compressive Sensing and Sparse Coding (Kevin Chen and H. T. Kung).- Bridging Density Functional Theory and Big Data Analytics with Applications (Chien-Chang Chen, Hung-Hui Juan, Meng-Yuan Tsai and Henry Horng-Shing Lu).- Q3-D3-LSA: D3.js and generalized vector space models for Statistical Computing (Lukas Borke and Wolfgang Karl Härdle).-  A Tutorial on Libra: R Package for the Linearized Bregman Algorithm in High-Dimensional Statistics (Jiechao Xiong, Feng Ruan and Yuan Yao).- Functional Data Analysis for Big Data: A Case Study on California Temperature Trends (Pantelis Zenon Hadjipantelis and Hans-Georg Müller).- Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling for Detecting Neuronal Activation via Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Martin Bezener, Lynn E.Eberly, John Hughes, Galin Jones and Donald R. Musgrove).- Construction of Tight Frames on Graphs and Application to Denoising (Franziska Göbel, Gilles Blanchard and Ulrike von Luxburg).- Beta-Boosted Ensemble for Big Credit Scoring Data (Maciej Zieba and Wolfgang Karl Härdle).-