The AUC (area under ROC curve) is a commonly used metric to assess discrimination of risk prediction rules; however, standard errors of AUC are usually based on the Mann-Whitney U test that assumes independence of sampling units. For ophthalmologic applications, it is desirable to assess risk prediction rules based on eye-specific outcome variables which are generally highly, but not perfectly ...

Asthma is considered as one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. As a result of serious physical, social, and psychological complications, asthma can reduce health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The present study was designed to assess the HRQoL including physical health, general health perception, emotional health, psychological health, and social functioning of asthmatic patien...

The most important impacts of climate change relate to temperature and precipitation. Precipitation is particularly important, because changes in precipitation patterns may lead to floods or droughts in different areas. Also, precipitation is a major factor in agriculture and in recent years interest has increased in learning about precipitation variability for periods of months to annual and s...

Climate change is a natural phenomenon but in present decades its variability of mainly due to anthropogenic activities alarming. Agriculture Chhattisgarh state dependant on monsoon rain and distribution. Considering this fact, the study has been tried analyze most important climatic variables, viz., precipitation temeperature for analyzing their trend area. The trends maximum atmospheric tempe...

The Prime Power Conjecture (PPC) states that abelian planar difference sets of order n exist only for n a prime power. Evans and Mann [1] verified this for cyclic difference sets for n ≤ 1600. In this paper we use the Mann test to verify the PPC for n ≤ 2, 000, 000.