TY - GEN AU - Gocheva-Ilieva,Snezhana AU - Gocheva-Ilieva,Snezhana TI - Statistical Data Modeling and Machine Learning with Applications SN - books978-3-0365-2693-5 PY - 2021/// CY - Basel, Switzerland PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KW - Information technology industries KW - bicssc KW - mathematical competency KW - assessment KW - machine learning KW - classification and regression tree KW - CART ensembles and bagging KW - ensemble model KW - multivariate adaptive regression splines KW - cross-validation KW - dam inflow prediction KW - long short-term memory KW - wavelet transform KW - input predictor selection KW - hyper-parameter optimization KW - brain-computer interface KW - EEG motor imagery KW - CNN-LSTM architectures KW - real-time motion imagery recognition KW - artificial neural networks KW - banking KW - hedonic prices KW - housing KW - quantile regression KW - data quality KW - citizen science KW - consensus models KW - clustering KW - Gower's interpolation formula KW - Gower's metric KW - mixed data KW - multidimensional scaling KW - classification KW - data-adaptive kernel functions KW - image data KW - multi-category classifier KW - predictive models KW - support vector machine KW - stochastic gradient descent KW - damped Newton KW - convexity KW - METABRIC dataset KW - breast cancer subtyping KW - deep forest KW - multi-omics data KW - categorical data KW - similarity KW - feature selection KW - kernel density estimation KW - non-linear optimization KW - kernel clustering KW - n/a N1 - Open Access N2 - The modeling and processing of empirical data is one of the main subjects and goals of statistics. Nowadays, with the development of computer science, the extraction of useful and often hidden information and patterns from data sets of different volumes and complex data sets in warehouses has been added to these goals. New and powerful statistical techniques with machine learning (ML) and data mining paradigms have been developed. To one degree or another, all of these techniques and algorithms originate from a rigorous mathematical basis, including probability theory and mathematical statistics, operational research, mathematical analysis, numerical methods, etc. Popular ML methods, such as artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), decision trees, random forest (RF), among others, have generated models that can be considered as straightforward applications of optimization theory and statistical estimation. The wide arsenal of classical statistical approaches combined with powerful ML techniques allows many challenging and practical problems to be solved. This Special Issue belongs to the section "Mathematics and Computer Science". Its aim is to establish a brief collection of carefully selected papers presenting new and original methods, data analyses, case studies, comparative studies, and other research on the topic of statistical data modeling and ML as well as their applications. Particular attention is given, but is not limited, to theories and applications in diverse areas such as computer science, medicine, engineering, banking, education, sociology, economics, among others. The resulting palette of methods, algorithms, and applications for statistical modeling and ML presented in this Special Issue is expected to contribute to the further development of research in this area. We also believe that the new knowledge acquired here as well as the applied results are attractive and useful for young scientists, doctoral students, and researchers from various scientific specialties UR - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4733 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77114 ER -