The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) has been traditionally used for assessing reliability between multiple observers for data with or without replications. Definitions of different versions of ICCs depend on the assumptions of specific ANOVA models. The parameter estimator for the ICC...

The intraclass correlation coefficient and the concordance correlation coefficient are two popular scaled indices for assessing the closeness between observers who make measurements for quantitative responses. These two indices are usually based on subject and observer effects only, and...

<title>A<sc>bstract</sc> </title> In the United States, most airports do not place any limitations on airline schedules. At a few major airports, the current scheduling restrictions (mostly administrative measures) have not been sufficiently strict to avoid consistent delays and have raised debates about both the...

In this paper the authors propose an extension of the algorithm General Optimal Regression Budget Allocation ScHeme (GORBASH) for iteratively optimizing simulation budget allocation while minimizing the total processing cost for top-k queries. They also implement this algorithm as part of SimQL:...

Kang, Weisman, and Zhang (2000) demonstrated that, under a tighter price cap, consumer welfare increases with the independence of demands. Conversely, the tighter price cap may negatively impact consumer welfare in situations involving interdependent demands. This paper identifies an overlooked...

This paper presents an L-statistics quantile estimator for estimating the pth quantile of a population which belongs to a set of location–scale distributions. The design of the weight vector of the estimator is formulated as a constrained optimization problem. The objective of the optimization...

This paper explores the factors influencing mortgage loan default and default probability by using the data from the mortgage loans of a case financial institution. The results indicate that the borrower's gender, the borrower's job position, whether the regional codes of the borrower's present...

Kang, Weisman, and Zhang (2000) demonstrated that, under a tighter price cap, consumer welfare increases with the independence of demands. Conversely, the tighter price cap may negatively impact consumer welfare in situations involving interdependent demands. This paper identifies an overlooked...

We use realized volatilities based on after-hours high frequency stock returns to predict next day stock volatility. We extend the GARCH model to include additional information: the whole after hours period, the preopen realized variance, the postclose realized variance, and the overnight...

This thesis introduces the "buyer power" model, probes into the influence on the chain relationship of the growth and decline of power between the headquarters and chain stores, and further overthrows the traditional literature's argument on the cause of exclusive dealing. First, this paper...