30. SMPS'08 CFP

As you may know, the 4th International Conference on Soft Methods in Statistics and Probability will be in Toulouse (France), September 2008.

Here you are the call for papers. The submission deadline is February 1st.

29. Old paper by Genest and Favre

Copulas are currently a very important interface between Fuzzy Sets and Statistics. They used to be quite obscure and exotic to the average statistician (conditional on his ever having heard about them), but recent years are witnessing a sudden eclosion of interest and systematic application to dependence modelling, specially in areas like Finance.

The following is an interesting introduction to the statistical side of the subject.

C. Genest, A.-C. Favre (2007). Everything you always wanted to know about copula modeling but were afraid to ask. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 12, 347-368.

A full list of Christian Genest's recent publications, with many links, is here.

28. Scholarpedia entries

I've just found out that there is something called Scholarpedia which is essentially an elitist version of the popular Wikipedia. I'm no big fan of this idea, even if scientific articles in the Wikipedia may contain serious errors. In any case, it must be admitted that many choices of authors are simply right (e.g. Berger for `Bayesian Statistics' or Dubois-Prade for `Possibility Theory').

Here you are a list of on-topic articles (actually, only a small number of articles have been written so far).

Fuzzy C-Means Cluster Analysis (James C. Bezdek)
Fuzzy logic (Lotfi A. Zadeh)
Fuzzy sets (Milan Mares)
Possibility Theory (Didier Dubois, Henri Prade)
Random sets (Hung T. Nguyen)