In the 1990s, the European Commission, through the then-novel Leader Initiative, launched rural development programs whose main objective was economic diversification based on the development of new recreational, touristic, or agro-industrial uses that were emerging. The modest size of the...

The inside-out sequential procedures for testing up to <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$k$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi>k</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> upper outliers in a two-parameter exponential sample are investigated. Six test statistics, one based on the ratio of the difference of largest observation and the sample mean which are unsuspected to be outliers to the range...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>