Der «IDANE Wald+ Science-Policy Dialogue» ist eine erweiterte Diskussionsplattform zu internationalen waldpolitischen Themen mit spezifischen Beiträgen aus der Schweizer Wissenschaft. Im Dezember 2021 organisierte die Abteilung Wald des Bundesamts für Umwelt (BAFU) erste Sitzung IDANE Wald+. Die zweite findet im Oktober 2022 zum Thema «Wald, Bäume und Partnerschaften» statt. Neben Diskussionspl...

Andersson, B. 2014. Contributions to Kernel Equating. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 106. 24 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9089-8. The statistical practice of equating is needed when scores on different versions of the same standardized test are to be compared. This thesis constitutes four contributions...

The purpose of this study was to describe falls and injuries within assisted living (AL) communities and determine whether a function-focused care (FFC) intervention increased the risk of falls and/or injuries. This was a secondary data analysis using data from a 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial in which four AL communities were matched based on ownership and randomly assigned to tr...

The size and power of the Wald, Edgeworth expansion corrected likelihood-ratio statistic (LRE), and bootstrap tests for Granger causality in integrated-cointegrated VAR systems are considered. By using Monte Carlo methods and simple graphical techniques, the p-value plots, and power-size plots, properties of the tests in two different forms, the standard and the Dolado and Lütkepohl (1996) modi...

Vincentizing (quantile averaging) is a popular means of pooling response time distributions across individuals to produce a group average. The benefit of Vincentizing is that the resulting histogram "looks like" an average of the individuals. In this article, we competitively test Vincentizing against the more mundane approach of averaging parameter estimates from fits to individuals. We simula...

Testing the correct model specification hypothesis for artificial neural network (ANN) models of the conditional mean is not standard. The traditional Wald, Lagrange multiplier, and quasi-likelihood ratio statistics weakly converge to functions of Gaussian processes, rather than to convenient chi-squared distributions. Also, their large sample null distributions are problem dependent, limiting ...

The new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald are designed to test validity weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) overspinning or overcharging Kerr-Newman black hole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Following their setup, this paper, we investigate WCCC higher-dimensional charged with a nonlinear electrodynamics source. We derive first seconder order perturbation inequal...

BACKGROUND To compare the clinicopathological features and prognosis between younger and aged patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS We analyzed the outcome of 451 HCC patients underwent liver resection, transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation, respectively. Then risk factors for aged and younger patients' survival were evaluated by multivariate ana...

The parametric bootstrap tests and the asymptotic or approximate tests for detecting difference of two Poisson means are compared. The test statistics used are the Wald statistics with and without log-transformation, the Cox F statistic and the likelihood ratio statistic. It is found that the type I error rate of an asymptotic/approximate test may deviate too much from the nominal significance ...