Preface of the "Symposium on statistical tools and models for applications"

Prefácio do Simpósio "Statistical tools and models for applications" organizado para a 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS 2013: ICNAAM 2013. Descrição das comunicações convidadas.The aim of this session is to focus on statistical tools for applications to real data. The emphasis is in environmental and in health studies, in a broad sense. Methods will be presented to explore trends, identify changes and to model a response variable when some of the standard assumptions fail. Applications of Multivariate Statistical Methods to real data are shown. It will be expected to bring together researchers with interest in these aspects of Statistical analysis and to discuss problems and new ideas. The topics include, but are not limited to the following: • Regression Modelling • Multivariate data analysis • Time Series Models • Change-point analysis • Generalized linear models • Structural models • Simulation • Resampling