Motivated by sampling problems in forestry and related fields, we suggest a spatial sampling scheme for estimating intensity of a point process. The technique is related to the `wandering quarter' method. In applications where the cost of identifying random points is high relative to the cost of...

Powell (1986) proposed a quantile regression estimator for censored regression models on the basis of equivariance of quantiles to monotone transformations. In this thesis, censored quantile regression models are generalized using two-parameter Box-Cox transformation to relax the conventional...

The statistical inference based on the ordinary least squares regression is sub-optimal when the distributions are skewed or when the quantity of interest is the upper or lower tail of the distributions. For example, the changes in Total Sharp Scores (TSS), the primary measurements of the...