This article considers a weighted bootstrap method to approximate the distribution of the maximal deviatiBootstrap-MBR.texon of kernel density estimates over general connected compact sets. The theoretical validity of this approximation is also established. Furthermore, simulation studies show...

Latent variable models represent a useful tool in different fields of research in which the constructs of interest are not directly observable. In such models, problems related to the integration of the likelihood function can arise since analytical solutions do not exist. Numerical...

We study nonlinear regression models whose both response and predictors are measured with errors and distorted as single-index models of some observable confounding variables, and propose a multicovariate-adjusted procedure. We first examine the relationship between the observed primary...

Sufficient dimension reduction aims at finding transformations of predictor X without losing any regression information of Y versus X. If we are only interested in the information contained in the mean function or the kth moment function of Y given X, estimation of the central mean space or the...

The main objective of this work is to calculate and compare different measures of multivariate skewness for the skew-normal family of distributions. For this purpose, we consider the Mardia (1970) [10], Malkovich and Afifi (1973) [9], Isogai (1982) [17], Srivastava (1984) [15], Song (2001)...

The principle of self-consistency has been employed to estimate regression quantile with randomly censored response. The asymptotic studies for this type of approach was established only recently, partly due to the complex forms of the current self-consistent estimators of censored regression...

We introduce a generalization of the approximate factor model that divides the observable variables into groups, allows for arbitrarily strong cross-correlation between the disturbance terms of variables that belong to the same group, and for weak correlation between the disturbances of...

We propose a criterion for variable selection in discriminant analysis. This criterion permits to arrange the variables in decreasing order of adequacy for discrimination, so that the variable selection problem reduces to that of the estimation of suitable permutation and dimensionality. Then,...

Semiparametric proportional hazard regression models are the cornerstone in modern survival analysis. Most estimation methodologies developed in the literature, such as the famous partial likelihood based estimation, are built on the ground that the censoring is noninformative. However, in many...

Motivated by analysis of gene expression data measured over different tissues or over time, we consider matrix-valued random variable and matrix-normal distribution, where the precision matrices have a graphical interpretation for genes and tissues, respectively. We present a l1 penalized...