Table of Contents

Preface; Modelling Infrequent Outcomes: Illustrations using Prospective Predictors of Paediatric Injuries; Understanding & Interpreting Confidence Intervals for Estimation & Hypothesis Testing in Medical Research: STATA Oriented; On-Line Signature Verification: Comparison & Fusion of Feature Based & Function Based Classifiers; Improving the Performance of Colour Spaces for Face Recognition by Color Space Normalisation & Rotation; Large Scale Palmprint Identification: Algorithms & Evaluation; Cancellable Biometrics: Problems & Solutions for Improving Accuracy; Information Criterion & Computation for GEE Model Selection, with an Application to a Longitudinal Study of Skin Cancer; On the ROC Curve Method for Assessing a Risk Prediction Model; Estimate the Initial Population Size from Removal Data; A Generalization of Fieller's Theorem for Ratios of Non-Normal Variables & Some Practical Applications; Block Coding Schemes Designed for Biometrical Authentication; Statistical Methods for Handling Categorical Complex Data; Index.