In this paper, we obtain the strong consistency and asymptotic distribution of the Theil-Sen estimator in simple linear regression models with arbitrary error distributions. We show that the Theil-Sen estimator is super-efficient when the error distribution is discontinuous and that its asymptotic distribution may or may not be normal when the error distribution is continuous. We give an exampl...

Given n points in the plane and an integer k, the slope selection problem is to nd the pair of points whose connecting line has the k-th smallest slope. (In dual setting, given n lines in the plane, we want to nd the vertex of their arrangement with the k-th smallest x-coordinate.) Cole et al. 6] have given an O(n log n) solution (which is optimal), using the parametric searching technique of M...

M. Daghofer,1,* Q.-L. Luo,2,3 R. Yu,4 D. X. Yao,2,3,5 A. Moreo,2,3 and E. Dagotto2,3 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032, USA 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas...

This paper presents a framework to explore the relationship between health equity and community empowerment. It traces the progression of the concept of participation to the present term of empowerment and the links among empowerment, equity, and health outcomes. It argues that the relationship can best be described by using the acronym CHOICE (Capacity-building, Human rights, Organizational su...

THE EFFECT OF THE INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENT ON EXIT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS M. B. SARKAR, RAJ ECHAMBADI, RAJSHREE AGARWAL* and BISAKHA SEN 1 College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. 2 College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. 3 School of Public Health, University of Al...

Objective: An increasing number of studies have reported on shifts in timing and length of the growing season, based on phonological, satellite and climatologically studies. Changes in the timing and length of the growing season (GSL) may not only have far reaching consequences for plant and animal ecosystems, but persistent increases in GSL may lead to long-term increases in carbon storage and...

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (X.L., J.L., S.L., Y.Z., X.W., C.Z., M.H.) Kidney Transplant Department, Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Q.F. , H.W., J.L., C.W.) Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collabor...

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (X.L., J.L., S.L., Y.Z., X.W., C.Z., M.H.) Kidney Transplant Department, Transplant Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China (Q.F. , H.W., J.L., C.W.) Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collabor...

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were quite simple. The headcount in...

This paper points to some elementary conflicts between the claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice as they manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted Human Development Index’ and the Su...