The recent common feeling about a skyrocketing economic risk has drawn increasing attention to its role and consequences on individuals' welfare. In literature one of the concepts that aims to measure it is vulnerability to poverty, that is the probability, today, of being in poverty or to fall...

A novel smoothed empirical likelihood (EL) approach that incorporates kernel estimation of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) to construct nonparametric confidence intervals of AUC based on the best linear combination (BLC) of biomarkers is proposed. The method has...

As biotechnology has made remarkable progress nowadays, there has also been a great improvement on data collection with lower cost and higher quality outcomes. More often than not investigators can obtain the measurements of many disease-related features simultaneously. When multiple potential...