Most studies on the indirect costs of an illness and the cost effectiveness of a medical intervention or employer-sponsored wellness program assume that the value of reducing the number of days employees miss from work due to illness is the wage rate. This paper presents a general model to...

When statistical observations are not based upon a controlled randomized experiment, it can be appealing to try to model their joint distribution via an exchangeable sampling distribution. However, exchangeable sampling distributions should be used with extreme caution, and do not obviously...

The generalized p-value method introduced by Tsui and Weerahandi [1989. Generalized p-values in significance testing of hypotheses in the presence of nuisance parameters. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 84 (406), 602-607] has been successfully used to provide small sample solutions for many hypothesis...