The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) presents twenty-two global climate models (GCMs). In this paper, we evaluate the ability of 22 GCMs to reproduce temperature and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau by comparing with ground observations for 1961~1900. The results suggest that all the GCMs underestimate surface air temperature and most mo...

Ridge estimate has been suggested as an alternative to the maximum likelihood estimate in the presence of collinearity among the elements of unobservable values in measurement error models. This paper studies the local influence of minor perturbations on the ridge estimate in the measurement error model. The diagnostics under the perturbation of variance and explanatory variables are considered...

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background: data mining (dm) is an approach used in extracting valuable information from environmental processes. this research depicts a dm approach used in extracting some information from influent and effluent wastewater characteristic data of a waste stabilization pond (wsp) in birjand, a city in eastern iran. methods: multiple regression (mr) and neural network (nn) models were examined us...

Measurement errors are often correlated, as in surveys where respondent’s biases or tendencies to err affect multiple reported variables. We extend Schennach (2007) to identify moments of the conditional distribution of a true Y given a true X when both are measured with error, the measurement errors in Y and X are correlated, and the true unknown model of Y given X has nonseparable model error...

In a nonparametric setup involving stochastic regressors. regression quantiles relate to the so called conditional quantile functions. Various asymptotic properties of such conditional quantile processes are studied with due emphasis on the underlying design aspects.