background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

thunderstorms are climatical phenomena, which sometimes can cause irreparable damage to the ecology. in this study to identify any trends in the frequency of days with thunderstorms in iran, long-term statistics of 33 synoptic stations, from the beginning until 2005 was used. at first by applying nonparametric man-kendall and sen’s estimator methods on four seasonal time series, and one annua...

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We study a bootstrap method which is based on the method of sieves. A linear process is approximated by a sequence of autoregressive processes of order p = pn, where pn ! 1 ; p n = on as the sample size n ! 1. F or given data, we t h e n estimate such a n A R pn model and generate a bootstrap sample by resampling from the residuals. This sieve bootstrap enjoys a nice nonparametric property. We ...