Asymptotic Relative Efficiency ] was pleased to read "Promise in Nonparametrics" by Royeen and Seaver (March, ] 986). As the authors state, analysis of data by non parametric methods when the strong assumptions for parametric counterparts cannot be met provides the researcher with effective statistical procedures that may be more realistic and valid in a given situation. It is also interesting ...

Test of homogeneity of covariances (or homoscedasticity) among several groups has many applications in statistical analysis. In the context of incomplete data analysis, tests of homoscedasticity among groups of cases with identical missing data patterns have been proposed to test whether data are missing completely at random (MCAR). These tests of MCAR require large sample sizes n and/or large ...

evapotranspiration is one of the most important components of the hydrological cycle which is directly influenced by atmospheric conditions. this study investigated annual and seasonal trends in reference evapotranspiration (et0) and its key influencing climatic variables during 1966-2005 at 10 stations in southern iran (with centrality of fars province). first, multivariate regression analysis...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a technique used to compare efficiency in various sectors such as hospitals, chain stores, and dealerships. it represents a set of linear programming techniques and uses deter-ministic data (inputs and outputs), in stable conditions. the dea technique cannot be used when there is data with indeterministic nature, or when there is an environment with dynamic co...

In this study, the effect of initial heterogeneity of weight and density on heterogeneous growth (HetG) evaluated by the coefficient of the variation of weight in the young Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus of the territorial species was tested. Fish were maintained in a glass aquarium (8 and 2 L of water) with two levels of initial heterogeneity of weight: low and high, under two density cond...

In this paper we show how the Färe, Grosskopf and Lovell (1985) input congestion nonparametric test can be performed to reach a statistical conclusion. To achieve this goal, we use Simar and Wilson (1998, 2000) radial distance functions bootstrap technique. An empirical illustration on airports congestion is provided. The results show that the technology is globally congested and that nine of t...

BACKGROUND There are concerns about growing barriers to cancer research. We explored the characteristics of and barriers to global clinical cancer research. METHODS The American Society of Clinical Oncology International Affairs Committee invited 300 selected oncologists with research experience from 25 countries to complete a Web-based survey. Fisher's exact test was used to compare answers ...

athemat s.2012.1 Abstract In this article we introduce new classes of life distributions namely harmonic new better (worse) than used in expectation after specific age t0 HNBUE t0 (HNWUE t0). The closure properties under various reliability operations such as convolution, mixture, mixing and the homogeneous Poisson shock model of these classes are studied. Furthermore, nonparametric test is pro...

German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for first order stochastic dominance tend to indicate...

A new nonparametric test of independence between the components of bivariate random vectors .X; Y / is motivated and evaluated in practice. The test statistics is based on the fact that under independence, every quantile of Y given X D x is constant. This is in contrast to the most commonly used basis that the joint probability density or distribution function ofX and Y , equals to the product ...