Imprecisely or incompletely observed data often appear in engineering, epidemiology and economic studies, observations on certain variables may be grouped or measured with errors, which poses challenges to the usual ...

The press releases from the Federal Open Market Committee(FOMC) are one of the major inputs to the interest rate futures market. To estimate the impact associated with the FOMC announcements, the random intervention model ...

Several nonparametric tests based on ranks have been proposed to handle analysis of variance problems. But questions have been raised about the appropriateness of some procedures that are mere rank transformations of normal ...

In the marketing research world today, companies have access to massive amounts of data regarding the purchase behavior of consumers. Researchers study this data to understand how outside factors, such as demographics and ...

Weak signal identification and inference are very important in the area of penalized model selection, yet they are under-developed and not well-studied. Existing inference procedures for penalized estimators are mainly ...