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...

I. Definition and Applications...............................................................................2 II. Two-Way ANOVA prerequisites.......................................................................2 III. How to use the Two-Way ANOVA tool?...........................................................3 A. Parametric test, assume variances equal. .........................................

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 ...

Asset prices observed in financial markets combine equilibrium prices and market microstructure noise. In this paper, we study how to tell apart large shifts in equilibrium prices from noise using high frequency data. We propose a new nonparametric test which allows us to asymptotically remove the noise from observable price data and to discover jumps in fundamental asset values. We provide its...

In the Western world, consumers complain about the soaring of non-interest bank fees during the recent years, the post global financial crisis in particular. Commercial banks charge a variety of non-interest fees for their transactions. This paper empirically tests whether the free charges are significantly different between conventional commercial banks and interest free Islamic banks. The ave...

Common using of parametric tests to elaborate research results is limited by predetermined assumptions (variable measurability, normality of its distribution, homogeneity of database etc), which must be fulfilled. Otherwise, the conclusions obtained by calculating using a parametric test will not be quite correct. Parametric tests are useless also in the case of the quality data and the data of...

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 ...