Pedro Delicado: Research activity.


Topics of interest:
 


Published papers

  1. Delicado, P., Giraldo, R., Comas, C. and Mateu, J. (2010) Statistics for spatial functional data. Environmetrics. (Accepted for publication). (Abstract) doi: 10.1002/env.1003 (Firts authors' version  http://hdl.handle.net/2117/2446.)
  2. Giraldo, R., Delicado, P. and Mateu, J. (2010) Continuous Time-Varying Kriging for Spatial Prediction of Functional Data: An Environmental Application.  Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES). (Accepted for publication). doi: 10.1198/jabes.2009.08051
    (First authors' veirsion http://hdl.handle.net/2117/2167.)
  3. Boj, E., Delicado, P. and Fortiana, J. (2010) Distance-based local linear regression for functional predictors. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54 (2) 429-437. (Abstract)  doi:10.1016/j.csda.2009.09.010 (Firts authors' version PDF file).
  4. González, J. R., Peña, E. and Delicado, P. (2010) Confidence intervals for median survival time with recurrent event data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 54 (1) 78-89. (Abstract) doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.07.012
  5. Almansa, J. and Delicado, P (2009) Analysing musical performance through functional data analysis: rhythmic structure in Schumann’s Träumerei. Connection Science. Volume 21, Issue 2 & 3, pages 207 - 225. (Authors' version PDF flie)
  6. Delicado, P. and Smrekar, M. (2009) Measuring non-linear dependence for two random variables distributed along a curve. Statistics and Computing, 19 (3), 255-269. doi: 10.1007/s11222-008-9090-y
    (First authors' version: PDF file).
  7. Delicado, P. and Goria, M. (2008) A small sample comparison of maximum likelihood, moments and L-moments methods for the asymmetric exponential power distribution. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52 (3) 1661-1673. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.05.021.
    (First authors' version: PDF file).
  8. Cedano, J.,  Huerta, M., Estrada, I., Ballllosera, F., Conchillo, O., Delicado, P. and Querol, E. (2007) A web server for automatic analysis and extraction of relevant biological knowledge. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 37 (11) 1672-1675  (Abstract, PDF)
  9. Delicado, P. (2007) Functional k -sample problem when data are density functions. Computational Statistics, 22 (3) 391-410. (Abstract, PDF)
  10. Delicado, P. (2006) Local likelihood density estimation based on smooth truncation. Biometrika, 93 (2) 472–480. (Abstract, PDF)
    (Working paper previous extended version)
  11. Udina, F. and Delicado, P. (2005) Estimating parliamentary composition through electoral polls. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 168, 387-399. (PDF file ).
  12. Delicado, P. and Romo, J. (2004) Random coefficient regressions: Parametric goodness-of-fit. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 119 (2), 377-400. 
  13. Delicado, P.  and del Río, M. (2003) A Generalization of Histogram Type Estimators. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 15 (1), 113-135. 
    (Working paper previous version: Economics Working Paper 422, UPF.)
  14. Delicado, P. and Huerta, M. (2003) Principal Curves of Oriented Points: Theoretical and computational improvements. Computational Statistics, 18 (2) 293-315.
    (Extended version: Document de recerca EIO (UPC) DR 2002/06.)
  15. Castro, F., Delicado, P. and da Rocha, J.M. (2002)  Desperately seeking theta's: Estimating the distribution of consumers under increasing  block rates. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 22 (1), pp. 29-58.
    16. (Working paper version: Economics Working Paper 250, UPF.)
  16. Delicado, P. and Placencia, I. (2001) Comparing empirical distributions of p-values from simulations.  Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation, 30 (2), pp. 403-422.
    17. (Working paper version: Economics Working Paper 210, UPF. )
  17. Delicado, P.(2001) Another look at principal curves and surfaces. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 77, 84-116.
    18. (PDF file ). (Extended working paper version: Economics Working Paper 309, UPF. )
  18. Arana, E., Delicado, P. and Martí-Bonmatí, L. (1999) Validation Procedures in Radiological Diagnostic Models. Neural Network and Logistic Regression. Investigative Radiology, 34, 636-642.
    19. (Working paper version: Economics Working Paper 414, UPF.)
  19. Delicado, P. and Romo, J. (1999) Goodness of fit test in random coefficient regression models. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 51, 125-148.
  20. Delicado, P. and Justel, A. (1999) Forecasting with missing data: Application to coastal wave heights. Journal of Forecasting, 18, 285-298.
    21. (Working paper version: Economics Working Paper 213, UPF.)
  21. Delicado, P. and del Río, M. (1997) Weighted nonparametric regression. Communications in Statistics. Theory nd methods, 26(12), 2983-2998.
    22. (Working paper version: Economics Working Paper 164, UPF.)
  22. Delicado, P. and del Río, M. (1994) Bootstrapping the general linear hypothesis tests. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 18, 305-316.

Published papers (in Spanish)
  1. Delicado, P. y Udina, F. (2001) ¿Cómo y cuánto fallan los sondeos electorales? Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas. 96, pp. 123-150. (PDF file) (Working paper version: Documento de trabajo EIO (UPC) DR 2001/02)

Papers in Conferences Proceedings with refereing process.
  1. Delicado, P. and Smrekar, M. (2007) Mixture of nonlinear models: A Bayesian fit for principal curves. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Pp. 195-200. Orlando, Florida, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4244-1380-5. DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4370954. ( Abstract , PDF file).

Chapters in books:
  1. Aluja, T. y Delicado, P.F. (2004) Modelización Estadística Paramétrica. En Introducción a la Minería de Datos, Hernández-Orallo, J.,  Ramírez-Quintana, M.José y Ferri, Cèsar, editores. Pp. 166-212. Prentice Hall / Addison-Wesley (Madrid).
  2. Delicado, P.F. y Aluja, T. (2004) Modelización Estadística No Paramétrica. En Introducción a la Minería de Datos, Hernández-Orallo, J.,  Ramírez-Quintana, M.José y Ferri, Cèsar, editores.Pp. 213-236. Prentice Hall / Addison-Wesley (Madrid).
  3. Delicado, P. (1999) New statistical methods for archaeological research. In New Techniques for Old Times. Computer Applications in Archaeology, J. A. Barceló, editor. British Archaeological Reports International Series. ArchaeoPress, Oxford.
  4. Mercader Prats, M. i Delicado, P. (1999) La dimensió econòmica de la pobresa a catalunya, 1973-1990. En Les desigualtats socials a Catalunya, Col·lecció Polítiques, 24, Editorial Mediterrània.

Working Papers (submitted for evaluation):

  1. Giraldo, R., Delicado, P. and Mateu, J. (2007) Geostatistics for functional data: An ordinary kriging approach. E-prints UPC. http://hdl.handle.net/2117/1099
  2. Giraldo, R., Delicado, P. and Mateu, J. (2009) From Multivariable to Functional Geostatistics: Spatial Prediction of Temperature Curves. (Preprint).

Other working papers:

Electronic Address: pedro dot delicado at upc dot edu
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