Statistics for small areas within larger regions are recently required for many economic variables. However, when adding the estimates of the small areas within the larger regions, the results do not match up to those obtained with the appropriate estimator originally derived for the larger...

This paper studies the international mobility of capital and labour. Using a Mixed Linear Model (MMA) the authors analyse the interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, exports and imports, and international remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with...

In many circumstances, the quality of a process or product is best characterized by a given mathematical function between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables that is typically referred to as profile. There are some investigations to monitor auto-correlated linear and...

In this article, we extended the widely used Bland-Altman graphical technique of comparing two measurements in clinical studies to include an analytical approach using a linear mixed model. The proposed statistical inferences can be conducted easily by commercially available statistical software...

Bivariate responses of repeated measures data are usually analysed as two separate responses in the literature by several authors. The two responses usually tend to be related in some way and analysing this data jointly presents an opportunity to account for the joint movement, which may impact...

Microarray experiments produce expression measurements for thousands of genes simultaneously, though usually for a small number of RNA samples. The most common problem is the identification of genes that are differentially expressed between different groups of samples or biological conditions....

Microarrays are a tool for measuring the expression levels of a large number of genes simultaneously. In the microarray experiment, however, many undesirable systematic variations are observed. Correct identification and removal of these variations is essential to allow the comparison of...