Using a stochastic dominance approach in an international dataset of about 10,000 Catholic subjects, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a crucial role in religious practice (church attendance and prayer). Furthermore, we find that when both positive (heaven) and negative (hell) incentives are available, the former have a much stronger effect than the latter. The results are...

The Pareto distribution model assumption in the peaks over threshold method, will be tested by making using of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit method. Pareto distributed variables can be transformed to exponential, and the test will be for exponentiality. It was found that the statistic can be used as an indication of where to choose the threshold and to check the Pareto model assumption.

We study the problem of distinguishing between two distributions on a metric space; i.e., given metric measure spaces (X, d, μ1) and (X, d, μ2), we are interested in the problem of determining from finite data whether or not μ1 is μ2. The key is to use pairwise distances between observations and, employing a reconstruction theorem of Gromov, we can perform such a test using a two sample Kolmogo...

A classical test for the detection of level shifts in such weakly dependent data is the CUSUM test, which compares the partial sum of the first m observations to the sum of all observations for each candidate change-point m, and maximizes this statistic with respect to m after some appropriate scaling. Asymptotical critical values for the CUSUM test can be calculated from tables of the Kolmogor...

In this paper we explore the application of structured additive distributional regression for the analysis of conditional income distributions in Germany following the reunification. Using a bootstrapped Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we find that conditional personal income distributions can generally be modelled using the three parameter Dagum distribution. Additionally our results hint at an even m...

Methods The study included data from out-patient medical record on 69 JIA patients (45 children, 24 adults) who received ETN therapy during 2004 till 2010. Treatment efficacy was assessed using the ACR (American College of Rheumatology) Pedi 30, 50 and 70 response. Therapy was evaluated after 3, 6, 12 and 24 months (mo) of ETN treatment. Safety was assessed by recording ETN adverse events (AE)....

In this paper we consider reciever design for frequency hopping orthogonal frequency-division multiple access system [2]. We propose new demodultaion algorithm that can increase the number of simultaneous transmissions with the same bit error rate. This algoritm can use any statistic that can test equality of emprical distribution funcions. We have used Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic in this pape...

We present a reformulation of the Benjamini-Hochberg method that is useful in 'large-scale' multiple testing problems based on discrete test statistics and derive its basic asymptotic (as the number of hypotheses tends to infinity) properties, subsuming earlier results. A set of gene expression data is used to illustrate the workings of the method in a multiple testing problem based on Kolmogor...

The authors present a new approach for measuring watermarking robustness in the case of color attacks of rgb-color watermarked images. This approach is applied to evaluate the robustness of our algorithm to watermark an rgb-color image by modifying pixels colors. It is based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and it uses fractal dimensions to quantify modified color pixels. The authors test smooth and ...