Proposal to Authors
Aim:
Each chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the topic it
covers by presenting its basic concepts, standard procedures and methods. The
material should be organized in a way that both readers not familiar with the
topic as well as experts could benefit.
Details:
Each chapter will stand on its own and therefore has to
comprise introductory elements for the non-expert. However, these elements
should not be too elementary. Basic knowledge in statistics of the reader is
supposed. Examples and illustrations are appreciated and should be given where
ever possible. It is in the responsibility of the author(s) whether a topic is
treated from a more conceptual point of view or from an exemplary. Future
perspectives will complete the presented material. Links to other chapters
should be indicated by the authors and will then be highlighted.
Structure of chapters:
Introduction
The special topic of this chapter should be embedded in the
context of the handbook and an overview of this field should be given. The
sections of this chapter should be summarized.
Subchapters 1-x
The contents of the subchapters should cover the various
aspects of the general topic. They should be as illustrative as possible without
dwelling into deep mathematical derivations such that they can also be
understood by researchers in health sciences who do not have the background of
theoretical statisticians. Basic concepts, standard procedures and methods
should be presented. All important problems and approaches should be preferably
illustrated by examples.
Outlook
Recent advances and new perspectives should be addressed. The
most relevant literature should be cited.
References
The list of references should be exhaustive, i.e. covering
the whole range from introductory texts to recent publications, also for the
advanced reader. References and citations should follow the rule of Springer-Verlag
(Example and Style files will be distributed later).
Further Specifications
The current plan is for about 30 chapters. On average each
chapter will be 20-30 printed pages. We encourage the use of color
in figures
however all figures should be designed meaningfully in black & white. The
book will also appear in electronic form (HTML and pdf) with possible Quantlet
links according to the Springer platform, see www.md-stat.com
Audience
Researchers and professionals in the applied sciences,
research institutes, biostatisticians, computer scientiests, bioinformatics,
financial engineers and computational finance.
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