type="main" xml:id="insr12037-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title>The combination of evidence from independent studies has a curious history. The origins reach back at least to the beginning of the 20th century. Since the mid-1970s, meta-analysis has become popular in several fields, among them medical statistics...

Fuzzy multiple comparisons procedures are introduced as a solution to the problem of multiple comparisons for discrete test statistics. The critical function of the randomized p-values is proposed as a measure of evidence against the null hypotheses. The classical concept of randomized tests is...

For measuring the weight of evidence for an alternative H1 to a hypothesis H0 or the degree of safety with which H0 can be rejected, this paper suggests an estimator of the indicator function of H1, with two separate squared error loss functions, and a bound on the risk under H0.

We apply the univariate sliced inverse regression to survival data. Our approach is different from the other papers on this subject. The right-censored observations are taken into account during the slicing of the survival times by assigning each of them with equal weight to all of the slices...

In a sailboat race, the navigator’s attempts to plot the fastest possible course are hindered by shifty winds. We present mathematical models appropriate for this situation, which use statistical analysis of wind fluctuations and are amenable to stochastic optimization methods. We describe the...