We apply the univariate sliced inverse regression to survival data. Our approach is different from the other papers on this subject. The right-censored observations are taken into account during the slicing of the survival times by assigning each of them with equal weight to all of the slices...

type="main" xml:id="insr12037-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title>The combination of evidence from independent studies has a curious history. The origins reach back at least to the beginning of the 20th century. Since the mid-1970s, meta-analysis has become popular in several fields, among them medical statistics...

The paper discusses regression estimators with optimal finite sample performance under a Cauchy or a Cauchy-like error distribution. It is shown that such estimators have an exact fit point of 50%. Estimators that are optimal under a Gaussian as well as a Cauchy-like error law are also discussed.