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The ability to measure population health trends and improvements can be enhanced through collaborative efforts to describe existing knowledge and via shared development opportunities. This paper highlights a project undertaken in Alberta which has created an inventory of health status indicators in use in the province, and provides a framework for strategic progress in the development and use o...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION Since adoption of the measles case-based surveillance system in Zimbabwe in 1998, data has been routinely collected at all levels of the health delivery system and sent to national level with little or no documented evidence of use to identify risky populations, monitor impact of interventions and measure progress towards achieving measles elimination. We analysed this data to dete...