Standardized comparisons in population research

Comparisons of Lognormal Population Means

Comparisons of two lognormal population means are investigated. For large samples, the conventional test for significance of the population means is the ordinary Student /-test with normal critical value. By Chen and Loh's result (Ann. Statist. 20 (1992)), however, the transformed i-test based on legdata is asymptotically more powerful than the ordinary i-test. In this paper, a new power transf...

Fair treatment comparisons in observational research

The proliferation of electronic health records, driven by advances in technology and legislative measures such as the Affordable Care Act, is leading to an explosion of passively collected administrative and medical data. The observational data collected in electronic health records presents exciting challenges and opportunities for researchers interested in comparing the effectiveness of diffe...

On Standardized Network Topologies For Network Research

Simulation has become the evaluation method of choice for many areas of computer networking research. When designing new or revised transport protocols, queuing methods, routing protocols, (just to name a few), a common approach is to create a simulation of a small to moderate scale topology and measure the performance of the new methodology as compared to existing methods. We demonstrate that ...

LGBT Demographics: Comparisons among population-based surveys

Comparisons of demographic characteristics are made among the surveys and, when possible, among sexual orientation identities to consider differences between those who identify as lesbian or gay and those who identify as bisexual. The term “LGB/T” is used to refer to respondents among the surveys since only one of the surveys explicitly included transgender within the LGBT identification question.

An Aspect of Variable Population Poverty Comparisons