Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, No. 91/92, Econometric Evaluation of Public Policies: Methods and Applications (JULY - DECEMBER 2008), pp. 175-187 (13 pages) In paired randomized experiments ...

It has been shown in this paper that the conditional variance of $X_{r+1\colon n}^{p}$ given $X_{r\colon n}=x$, is independent of x if and only if the distribution is ...

Genome-wide association studies have been successful in identifying genes and pathways involved in the development of human complex traits and diseases 1,2. For many traits, such as height and BMI, ...

In the prediction of genetic values and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) mapping via the mixed model method incorporating marker information in animal populations, it is important to model the genetic ...