Many estimators of the variance of the well-known unbiased and uniform most powerful estimator of the Mann–Whitney effect, are considered in the literature. Some of these estimators are only valid in cases of no ties or are biased in small sample sizes where the amount of bias is not...

Many estimators of the variance of the well-known unbiased and uniform most powerful estimator of the Mann–Whitney effect, are considered in the literature. Some of these estimators are only valid in cases of no ties or are biased in small sample sizes where the amount of bias is not...

We consider the problem of predicting values of a random process or field satisfying a linear model y(x)=θ⊤f(x)+ε(x), where errors ε(x)are correlated. This is a common problem in kriging, where the case of discrete observations is standard. By focussing on the case of continuous...