The main objective of the present study was to estimate genetic and phenotypic trends for body weight traits in Guilan province sheep. Traits included were birth weight (BW, n=14,549), 3-month weight (3MW, n=13,109) and 6-month weight (6MW, n=10,141). Data and pedigree information used in this study were collected during 1994 to 2011 by the Agricultural Organization of Guilan province in Iran. ...

We handle two major issues in applying extreme value analysis to nancial time series, bias and serial dependence, jointly. This is achieved by studying bias correction method when observations exhibit weakly serial dependence, namely the β−mixing series. For estimating the extreme value index, we propose an asymptotically unbiased estimator and prove its asymptotic normality under the β−mixing ...

The effect of selection bias has not been well evaluated in epidemiologic studies which focus on familial aggregation. The authors illustrate this type of bias for a reconstructed cohort study. With the reconstructed cohort design, cases and controls are first selected from the population and their relatives form the exposed and unexposed cohorts, respectively. The recurrence risk ratio (RRR) i...

in statistical inference, the point estimation problem is very crucial and has a wide range of applications. when, we deal with some concepts such as random variables, the parameters of interest and estimates may be reported/observed as imprecise. therefore, the theory of fuzzy sets plays an important role in formulating such situations. in this paper, we rst recall the crisp uniformly minimum ...

In certain imaging applications, the captured images are corrupted by Poisson noise. For such images, Poisson unbiased risk estimate (PURE) has been proposed as an unbiased estimator of the mean square error between the original and estimated images. By minimizing PURE, noise can be reduced. PURE was originally defined in the Haar wavelet domain. Since the wavelet functions are isotropic in eve...