China, similar to other countries with multi-level government structure, suffers serious information asymmetry between different levels of governments. Existing studies mostly focus on how the secret information possessed by lower-level governments undermines effective control by upper-level...

In this article, we propose a parametric bootstrap (PB) test for testing main, simple and interaction effects in heteroscedastic two-way MANOVA models under multivariate normality. The PB test is shown to be invariant under permutation-transformations, and affine-transformations, respectively....

For the problem of comparing the means of k populations with unequal population variances, a new generalized test variable is defined and the generalized p-value based on this generalized test variable is given. It is shown that the proposed generalized p-value is invariant under the group of...

Admissible prediction problems in finite populations with arbitrary rank under matrix loss function are investigated. For the general random effects linear model, we obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions for a linear predictor of the linearly predictable variable to be admissible in...