In this paper, we propose two tests for parametric models belonging to the Archimedean copula family, one for uncensored bivariate data and the other one for right-censored bivariate data. Our test procedures are based on the Fisher transform of the correlation coefficient of a bivariate (U, V ), which is a one-toone transform of the original random pair (T1, T2) that can be modeled by an Archi...

Time series measurements are often observed with data irregularities, such as censoring due to a detection limit. Practitioners commonly disregard censored data cases which often result into biased estimates. We present an attractive remedy for handling autocorrelated censored data based on a class of autoregressive and moving average (ARMA) models. In particular, we introduce an imputation met...

The paper considers the problem of testing the hypothesis that J ≥ 2 dependent groups have equal population measures of location when using a robust estimator and there are missing values. For J = 2, methods have been studied based on trimmed means. But the methods are not readily extended to the case J > 2. Here, two alternative test statistics were considered, one of which performed poorly in...

In the last 30 years, China’s economic power has experienced great changes and has brought about a profound impact on the world economy. This led us to ask a question: do changes in China’s economic power shift the geo-economic relationships between China and its neighboring countries? To answer this question, we researched the evolution of geo-economic relationships between China and the Assoc...

Geographic information services (geo-services) are gaining popularity as an efficient and costeffective framework for integrating geo-information systems, within and between enterprises, to enhance enterprise business processes. Geo-services can be chained dynamically to create customised geo-information and value-added services and therefore offer a business opportunity for disparate partners ...

From the perspective of spatial information sharing and interoperation, the concept of geo-ontology has been proposed in this paper. At first, a brief introduction to the Geo-Ontology concept has been described and the hierarchical structure of geo-ontology has also been analyzed. Then, the traditional method of ontology construction has been discussed and the existing problems have also been s...