In case of estimating growth curves nonparametrically onc faces the fact that the data driven bandwidth selectors published in standard textbooks mostly choose bandwidths much too low. This is due to the positive autocorrelation observed in growth data. This paper introduces an easy way to...

Area statistics are sample versions of areas occurring in a probability plot of two distribution functions F and G. This paper gives a unified basis for five statistics of this type. They can be used for various testing problems in the framework of the two sample problem for independent...