Allocation Rules and Their Error Rates
Summary The problem of choosing allocation rules and assessing their errors of mis-allocation is formulated in general terms. An inequality connecting the average apparent, the ...
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Combining Possibly Related Estimation Problems
Summary We have two sets of parameters we wish to estimate, and wonder whether the James-Stein estimator should be applied separately to the two sets or once to the combined pro...
On the Smoothing of Probability Density Functions
Summary We consider the estimation of a probability density function by linear smoothing of the observed density. A basis for estimation is obtained by assuming that the ordinat...
Simultaneously reconstructing viral cross-species transmission history and identifying the underlying constraints
The factors that determine the origin and fate of cross-species transmission events remain unclear for the majority of human pathogens, despite being central for the development...
Nuclear cosmochronology within analytic models of the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood
This paper investigates whether the age of the Galaxy can be deduced from natural radioactivity. I demonstrate that two recent influential claims (by Butcher and by Fowler) that...
Topics in the Investigation of Linear Relations Fitted by the Method of Least Squares
Summary Various topics are reviewed: the effect of modern computers on statistical calculation; analysis by vector components rather than analysis merely of variance; “stepwise ...
Influence of sex on expansion rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms
Abstract Background The UK Small Aneurysm Trial suggested that female sex is an independent risk factor for rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). This study assessed the e...
Phylogenetic information and experimental design in molecular systematics
Despite the widespread perception that evolutionary inference from molecular sequences is a statistical problem, there has been very little attention paid to questions of experi...
Blood Pressure Parameters and Risk of Fatal Stroke, NHANES II Mortality Study
Our results agree with previous studies that indicate systolic BP is an important predictor of stroke risk for all groups within the population and provide further evidence of t...
Stellar populations and surface brightness fluctuations: new observations and models
We examine the use of surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) for both stellar population and distance studies. New V-band SBF data are reported for five Fornax cluster galaxies a...
The stability of viscous flow between horizontal concentric cylinders
The critical conditions for the formation of Taylor vortices between horizontal concentric cylinders are considered in detail. (1) Where the flow is unidirectional round the ann...
Star formation, metallicity and dust properties derived from the StromloAPM galaxy survey spectra
We have derived star formation rates (SFRs), gas-phase oxygen abundances and effective dust absorption optical depths for a sample of galaxies drawn from the Stromlo—APM redshif...