This paper develops inferential theory for hypothesis testing under general convex cone alternatives for correlated data. Often, interest lies in detecting order among treatment effects, while simultaneously modeling relationships with regression parameters. Incorporating shape or order restrictions in the modeling framework improves the efficiency of statistical methods. While there exists ext...

The paper defines and analyzes May’s Theorem the Median Voter from Public Policy Choice literature seeks to compare contrast use of both. Through theoretical applied examples, demonstrates how collective decision-making research has evolved better inform public policy. Building on Black’s (1948) notion that it is voter in ideological middle decides elections, Holcombe (1980) provides an empiric...

For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about the control of resources is sol...

UNLABELLED Attenuation, photon scatter, and distance-dependent collimator-detector response are major degrading factors in myocardial SPECT images. The current study investigated whether compensation for these factors improves perfusion defect detectability, and compared the results for human observers with a previous study using a mathematical observer. METHODS Four methods were investigated...

This paper presents a theoretical development that extends results on the distribution of the sample correlation coefficient and the Fisher transform (Fisher, 1921). Several well known correlational procedures use the Fisher transform or its square as the basis of hypothesis testing. These procedures assume that the variance of the Fisher transform can be approximated adequately as 1/( 3) n − ....

We consider a two-player, sequential location game, with n stages. At each stage, players 1 and 2 choose locations from a feasible set in sequence. After all moves are made, consumers each purchase one unit of the good from the closest location. Since player 1 has a natural first-mover disadvantage here (player 2 can obtain a payoff of 12 just by replicating player 1’s moves), we examine her mi...