Estimating the parameters of a regression model of interest is complicated by missing data on the variables in that model. Multiple imputation is commonly used to handle these missing data. Joint model multiple imputation and full-conditional specification multiple imputation are known to yield imputed data with the same asymptotic distribution when the conditional models of full-conditional sp...

Abstract We propose a new account of indicative conditionals, giving acceptability and logical closure conditions for them. start from Adams’ Thesis: the claim that simple equals corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false refuted by empirical research. To fix it, we submit, need relevance constraint: accept $$\varphi \rightarrow \psi$$ <mml:math xml...

Abstract: Let X be a Kotz Type III elliptical random vector in IR, k ≥ 2, and let tn, n ≥ 1 be positive constants such that limn→∞ tn = ∞. In this article we obtain an asymptotic expansion of the tail probability P {X > tna},a ∈ IR. As an application we derive an approximation for the conditional excess distribution. Furthermore, we discuss the asymptotic dependence of Kotz Type III triangular ...

A general approach for developing distribution free tests for general linear models based on simplicial depth is presented. In most relevant cases, the test statistic is a degenerated U-statistic so that the spectral decomposition of the conditional expectation of the kernel function is needed to derive the asymptotic distribution. A general formula for this conditional expectation is derived. ...

Using and extending fractional order statistic theory, we characterize the O(n−1) coverage probability error of the previously proposed confidence intervals for population quantiles using L-statistics as endpoints in Hutson (1999). We derive an analytic expression for the n−1 term, which may be used to calibrate the nominal coverage level to get O(n−3/2 log(n)) coverage error. Asymptotic power ...

We study a family of diffusion models for risk reserves which account for the investment income earned and for the inflation experienced on claim amounts. After we defined the process of the conditional probability of ruin over finite time and imposed the appropriate boundary conditions, classical results from the theory of diffusion processes turn the stochastic differential equation to a spec...

The intricate assembly of photosystem I (PSI), a large multiprotein complex in the thylakoid membrane, depends on auxiliary protein factors. One of the essential assembly factors for PSI is encoded by ycf3 (hypothetical chloroplast reading frame number 3) in the chloroplast genome of algae and higher plants. To identify novel factors involved in PSI assembly, we constructed an epitope-tagged ve...

Electron microscope preparations were made of specimens of Actinosphaerium nucleofilum fixed in glutaraldehyde before, during, and after exposure to high pressures (4,000 to 8,000 psi). A study of this material showed that, although other organelles were relatively stable, the microtubular elements of the axopodia and cytosome became unstable under pressure. Their rapid disintegration under pre...