We investigate the D-optimal design problem in the common trigonometric regression model, where the design space is a partial circle. The task of maximizing the criterion function is transformed into the problem of determining an eigenvalue of a certain matrix via a differential equation...

The problem of determining optimal designs for least squares estimation is considered in the common linear regression model with correlated observations. The approach is based on the determination of ‘nearly’ universally optimal designs, even in the case where the universally optimal design...

A class of multiplicative algorithms for computing D-optimal designs for regression models on a finite design space is discussed and a monotonicity result for a sequence of determinants obtained by the iterations is proved. As a consequence the convergence of the sequence of designs to the...

The permutation approach for testing the equality of distributions and thereby comparing two populations of functional data has recently received increasing attention thanks to the flexibility of permutation tests to handle complex testing problems. The purpose of this work is to present some...

The application of Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) to the empirical distribution function sampled at a grid of points spanning the range of the sample leads to a novel and promising method for the computer-intensive nonparametric estimation of both the distribution function and the density...