Analysis of data collected from a questionnaire survey of randomly selected Tennessee nursery businesses revealed that wholesalers and retailers differed significantly in their stated reasons for attending and participating in industry trade shows. When controlled for business size (gross...

Most economists understand linear regression as the estimation of the parameters of a linear model. There are two other ways of interpreting the results of linear regression, however, and most software packages designed specifically to handle data from complex sample surveys (for example,...

A multistage stochastic programming problem can be introduced either as the problem considered with respect to some abstract mathematical space or as a system of parametric optimization problems considered with respect to the Euclidean space with an inner (recurrent) dependence and mathematical...

We compare various kinds of independence tests on samples with random size, in order to provide practitioners with some guidance for their choice based on approximate Bahadur efficiency. Such results are obtained for a wide class of distributions of random index; the efficiency slopes of the...