Streambed vertical hydraulic conductivity (K <Subscript> v </Subscript>) plays an important role in understanding and quantifying the stream–aquifer interactions. While several researchers have discussed the spatial variability of streambed horizontal hydraulic conductivity or K <Subscript> v </Subscript> at one or several close-located...</subscript></subscript>

From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed so-called “Castle Doctrine” or “stand your ground” laws. These laws expand the legal justification for the use of lethal force in self-defense, thereby lowering the expected cost of using lethal force and increasing the expected cost of...

From 2000 to 2010, more than 20 states passed laws that make it easier to use lethal force in self-defense. Elements of these laws include removing the duty to retreat in places outside of one's home, adding a presumption of reasonable belief of imminent harm, and removing civil liability for...

In differential expression analysis of microarray data, it is common to assume independence among null hypotheses (and thus gene expression levels). The independence assumption implies that the number of false rejections V follows a binomial distribution and leads to an estimator of the...

An estimator of a smooth quantile function (q.f.) is constructed by Bernstein polynomial smoothing of the empirical quantile function. Asymptotic behavior of this estimator is demonstrated by a weighted Brownian bridge in-probability uniform approximation. Oscillation behavior of this estimator...

A Berry-Esséen-type theorem showing the near-optimal quality of the normal distribution approximation to the distribution of smooth quantile density estimators is established in this paper. Under more restrictive conditions on the smoothing kernel, an n-1/2-error bound Berry-Esséen result is...

Based on a careful analysis of the asymptotic almost-sure behavior of certain generalized Kiefer processes, asymptotic almost-sure uniform upper bounds of estimation error are established for a broad class of quantile density function estimators useful in survival analysis. The error bounds are...

Although validation of classification and prediction models has been a long-standing topic in Statistics and computer learning, the concept of statistical validation in genome-wide screening studies has been vague. Internal validation generally refers to validation procedures solely based on the...

The methodological advancement in microarray data analysis on the basis of false discovery rate (FDR) control, such as the q-value plots, allows the investigator to examine the FDR from several perspectives. However, when FDR control at the ``customary" levels 0.01, 0.05, or 0.1 does not provide...