High and stabile yield in different production environments is priority maize breeding. New statistical methods are constantly being sought to accompany analysis of variance, order achieve more reliable hybrid assessment. In this study nonparametric stability applied assess GxE interaction for 36 commercial hybrids. The experiment was set up at five locations Serbia three years according the Ra...

BACKGROUND Although some nonparametric methods have been proposed in the literature to test for the equality of median survival times for censored data in medical research, in general they have inflated type I error rates, which make their use limited in practice, especially when the sample sizes are small. METHODS In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric test with a simple test statisti...

We have formulated the ab-initio prediction of the 3D-structure of proteins as a probabilistic programming problem where the inter-residue 3D-distances are treated as random variables. Lower and upper bounds for these random variables and the corresponding probabilities are estimated by nonparametric statistical methods and knowledge-based heuristics. In this paper we focus on the probabilistic...

Results of irradiation-hyperthermia treatment in 11 dogs with naturally occurring hemangiopericytoma were reported. Similarities of canine and human hemangiopericytomas were described. Orthovoltage X-irradiation followed by microwave-induced hyperthermia resulted in a 91% objective response rate. A statistical procedure was given to evaluate quantitatively the clinical behavior of locally invas...

The Ames assay has received widespread attention from statisticians because of its popularity and importance to risk assessment. However, investigators have yet to routinely apply modern regression methods that have been available for more than a decade. We study yet another approach, the application of nonparametric regression techniques, not as the ultimate solution but rather as a framework ...

selection of superior varieties of wide adaptability over diverse farming environments is of high importance, prior to any varietal recommendation. in order to study yield stability of alfalfa, 17 ecotypes were evaluated during 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 growing seasons at 10 research stations. each trial was carried out according to a completely randomized block design of 3 replications with fres...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a safe and non-invasive way to assess brain functions by using signal changes associated with brain activity. The technique has become a ubiquitous tool in basic, clinical and cognitive neuroscience. This method can measure little metabolism changes that occur in active part of the brain. We process the fMRI data to be able to find the parts of br...