Apple's iPad and other forms of tablet are reportedly gaining increasing popularity within the academic premises. Most of the published research on this topic has highly admired the positive role and impact of iPads on teaching and learning practices, as if an exogenous technological induction...

In this paper a numerical method to compute principal component geodesics for Kendall's planar shape spaces-which are essentially complex projective spaces-is presented. Underlying is the notion of principal component analysis based on geodesics for non-Euclidean manifolds as proposed in an...

The penalized profile sampler for semiparametric inference is an extension of the profile sampler method [B.L. Lee, M.R. Kosorok, J.P. Fine, The profile sampler, Journal of the American Statistical Association 100 (2005) 960-969] obtained by profiling a penalized log-likelihood. The idea is to...

A nearly unstable sequence of stationary spatial autoregressive processes is investigated, when the sum of the absolute values of the autoregressive coefficients tends to one. It is shown that after an appropriate normalization the least squares estimator for these coefficients has a normal...

The so-called independent component (IC) model states that the observed p-vectorX is generated via X=[Lambda]Z+[mu], where [mu] is a p-vector, [Lambda] is a full-rank matrix, and the centered random vector Z has independent marginals. We consider the problem of testing the null hypothesis on the...

Sequential tests that are generalizations of Page's CUSUM tests are proposed for detecting an abrupt change in any parameter, or in any collection of parameters of an autoregressive time series model. These tests accommodate nuisance parameters. They are based on large sample approximations to...

For a class of multivariate skew normal distributions, the noncentral skew chi-square distribution is studied. The necessary and sufficient conditions under which a sequence of quadratic forms is generalized noncentral skew chi-square distributed random variables are obtained. Several examples...

We study the distributions of the LASSO, SCAD, and thresholding estimators, in finite samples and in the large-sample limit. The asymptotic distributions are derived for both the case where the estimators are tuned to perform consistent model selection and for the case where the estimators are...

The purpose of this paper is, in multivariate linear regression model (Part I) and GMANOVA model (Part II), to investigate the effect of nonnormality upon the nonnull distributions of some multivariate test statistics under normality. It is shown that whatever the underlying distributions, the...