The aim of the study was to examine differences in stress and recovery across gender and time (preseason and play-offs) in a sample of amateur basketball players of the Italian league (C division). Fifty amateur basketball players (33 men and 17 women) age 17-30 y (23.5 ± 9.19 y) participated in the study. Twenty-eight athletes (16 men and 12 women) completed the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire f...

We consider pricing of various types of exotic discrete variance swaps, like the gamma swaps and corridor swaps, under the 3/2-stochastic volatility models with jumps. The class of stochastic volatility models (SVM) that use a constant-elasticity-of-variance (CEV) process for the instantaneous variance exhibit nice analytical tractability when the CEV parameter takes just a few special values (...

Many studies in the fields of genetic epidemiology and applied population genetics are predicated on, or require, an assessment of the genetic background diversity of the individuals chosen for study. A number of strategies have been developed for assessing genetic background diversity. These strategies typically focus on genotype data collected on the individuals in the study, based on a panel...

The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is a commonly used statistical test in Statistics. The test compares the equality of means against the alternative that at least one of the means are different. In this report, we introduce a multivariate test known as Wavelet Analysis of Variance extending ANOVA to profile (functional) data. The test exploits the dimension reduction, noise elimination propertie...

ij xixjδij , where xi is the frequency of the ith haplotype and δij is the fraction of nucleotides at which haplotypes i and j differ. It shouldn’t come to any surprise to you that just as there is interest in partitioning diversity within and among populations when we’re dealing with simple allelic variation, i.e., Wright’s F -statistics, there is interest in partitioning diversity within and ...

• Although relatively robust to the following, ANOVA assumes • Normal distribution of residuals • Variation in each group is similar • ANOVA is sensitive to outliers, and transforms of the data may be necessary • ANOVA is a test of group differences: do at least two of the means differ from each other? • Two-way ANOVA tests a number of sources of variability • It is important to know which sour...