When I was a graduate student more than twenty five years ago, I was struggling to read
many statistical research papers. This is particularly true at the time when I had passed my …

The empirical characteristic function (ECF) has been in use in statistical inference for nearly
fifty years now. We provide an overview of testing procedures based on the ECF within …

We analyze the performance of the two main portfolio insurance methods, the OBPI and
CPPI strategies, using downside risk measures. For this purpose, we introduce Kappa …

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical
approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures …

The two-sample problem: testing the equality of two distributions is investigated. A jackknife
empirical likelihood (JEL) test is proposed through incorporating characteristic functions …

Distinction of diverse two-dimensional periodic structures can be based on a large number
of methods and parameters, while the quantitative description of differences between similar …

We develop a Fokker-Planck theory of tissue growth with three types of cells (symmetrically
dividing, asymmetrically dividing, and nondividing) as main agents to study the growth …

Interaction of capital market participants is a complicated dynamic process. A stochastic
model is proposed to describe the dynamics to predict short‐term stock price behaviors …

In many statistical applications, the observed data take the form of sets rather than points.
Examples include bracket data in survey analysis, tumor growth and rock grain images in …

In reliability theory, a widely used process to model the phenomena of the cumulative
deterioration of a system over time is the standard gamma process (SGP). Based on several …