A GIS multivariate model based on the Mahalanobis distance statistic is proposed to evaluate habitat suitability for the wolf Canis lupus in northern Spain. Results derived from the model show that wolves can potentially thrive in some habitats on the southern and western side of the study area where conflicts with the human population are minimum. However, some other areas that have been recen...

The paper analyzes coalition formation in Dutch municipalities. After discussing the main features of the institutional setting, several theories are discussed, which are classified as size oriented, policy oriented and actor oriented models. A test statistic is proposed to determine the predictive power of these models. The empirical analysis shows that strategic positions as well as some of t...

Weighted order statistic filters (WOSF) generate linearly separable Boolean functions. In some cases, 2 different WOSF may generate the same Boolean function. We thus can collect all of the WOSF together, which generate the same Boolean function. In this paper, we construct equivalent classes of WOSF, the BF equivalent class and the global equivalent class. Besides, we use minimum weight vector...

The theory of formation of an ideal image has been described which shows that the gray level in an image [ollows the Poisson distribution. Based on this concept, various algorithms for object background classification have been developed. Proposed algorithms involve either the maximum entropy principle or the minimum X statistic. The appropriateness of the Poisson distributiou is fun:her streng...

A new approach to goodness-of-fit for Pareto distributions is introduced. Based on Euclidean distances between sample elements, the family of statistics and tests is indexed by an exponent in (0,2) on Euclidean distance. The corresponding tests are statistically consistent and have excellent performance when applied to heavy-tailed distributions. The exponent can be tailored to the particular P...

Main aim of this paper is to present some notions on how results from commutative algebra and algebraic geometry could be used in representation and computation of maximum and minimum entropy (ME) models. We show that various formulations of estimation of ME models can be transformed to solving systems of polynomial equations in cases where an integer valued sufficient statistic exists. We give...

We consider unbiased estimation following a group sequential test for distributions in a one-parameter exponential family. We show that, for an estimable parameter function, there exists uniquely an unbiased estimator depending on the sufficient statistic and based on the truncation-adaptation criterion (Liu and Hall (1999)); moreover, this estimator is identical to one based on the Rao-Blackwe...

We consider identifying the minimum effective dose (MED) in a dose-response study, where the MED is defined to be the lowest dose level producing an effect over that of the zero-dose control. Proposed herein is a nonparametric procedure based on the Mann-Whitney statistic incorporated with the step-down closed testing scheme. A numerical example demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed nonp...

We derive the observed luminosity function of virialized systems. Coupling this statistic with the mass function predicted by CDM cosmogonies we obtain the functional behavior of the mass–to–light ratio over a wide dynamical range in mass. We conclude that the mass–to–light ratio has a minimum close to the luminosity of an L∗ galaxy halo. We also show how to derive in a self-consistent way the ...