Malaria remains a major epidemiological problem in many developing countries. Malaria is dened as the presence of parasites and symptoms (usually fever) due to the parasites. In endemic areas, an individual may have symptoms attributable either to malaria or to other causes. From a clinical...

In many surveys, missing response is a common problem. As an example, Zahner, Jacobs, Freeman and Trainor analysed data from a study of child psychopathology in the State of Connecticut, USA. In that study, the response variable, psychopathology, was inferred from questions that were addressed...

In statistical applications, we often encounter a situation where a substantial number of observations takes zero value and at the same time the non-zero observations are highly skewed. We propose empirical likelihood-based non-parametric confidence intervals for the mean parameter which have...