In this article, we propose the Theil-Sen estimators of parameters in a multiple linear regression model based on a multivariate median, generalizing the Theil-Sen estimator in a simple linear regression model. The proposed estimator is shown to be robust, consistent and asymptotically normal under mild conditions, and super-efficient when the error distribution is discontinuous. It can be chos...

1 Department of Epidemiology & Bio-statistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta, India. 2 Health Services Research, St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis, MO 63108 Address for Correspondence: Dr. Urmi Sen, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 37, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Calcutta 700026, Fax: 91-33-475 7606, e-mail: u...

Hai Wang,1 Biao Wang,1,2 Qingkun Li,1 Zhenye Zhu,1 Rui Wang,3 and C. H. Woo4 1School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 2School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 3Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China 4Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Po...

In this article we introduce the multiplier vector valued sequence space `{Ek,Λ, p}, where Λ = (λk) is an associated multiplier sequence of non-zero complex numbers and the terms of the sequence are chosen from the seminormed spaces Ek, k ∈ N . This generalizes the scalar sequence space `{p}. We study some properties of this space like solidity, symmetricity, completeness, separability. Prove s...

1Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China; 2Clinical Experimental Center, Jiangmen Central Hospital, Affiliated Jiangmen Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Jiangmen 529030, China; 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery/Orthopaedic Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospi...

a National Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Business Management, 70 Lianhai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan b Tainan University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, 529 Jhongjheng Road, Yongkang Dist., Tainan City 710, Taiwan c University of California at Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, 4121 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720–1777, United...

Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China 510006; CellBased Assay Screening Core, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Verna and Marrs Mclean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, USA 77030, Key Laboratory ...

TheWorld Health Organization in Europe has said that modern societies actively market unhealthy lifestyles. What if they actively marketed healthy lifestyles instead? How could we begin to build a health creating society, with all sectors working towards a healthy and resilient population? 2 In November I introduced a debate in the House of Lords on this topic, in an attempt to start to build t...

Poverty analysis is in the midst of a multidimensional turn due, in part, to the growing awareness of the limitations of relative income measures of poverty. In this paper, we argue that the conceptualisation of poverty remains a neglected aspect of this multidimensional turn to date, and demonstrate that the counter-intuitive results which flow from relative income analyses are not problems of...

This study investigated the complexity of the electromyography (EMG) of lower limb muscles when performing obstacle crossing tasks at different heights in poststroke subjects versus healthy controls. Five poststroke subjects and eight healthy controls were recruited to perform different obstacle crossing tasks at various heights (randomly set at 10, 20, and 30% of the leg's length). EMG signals...