of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy NONPARAMETRIC FUNCTIONAL MAPPING OF QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI By Jie Yang August 2006 Chair: George Casella Major Department: Statistics Functional mapping is a tool for detecting major genes responsible for different phenotypic curves, de...

We introduce kernel nonparametric tests for Lancaster three-variable interaction and for total independence, using embeddings of signed measures into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. The resulting test statistics are straightforward to compute, and are used in powerful interaction tests, which are consistent against all alternatives for a large family of reproducing kernels. We show the Lanc...

The area under a ROC curve (AUC) and partial area under a ROC curve (pAUC) are important summary measures useful in assessing the accuracy of a diagnostic test or a biomarker in discriminating true disease status. We consider nonparametric estimation of AUC and pAUC under a test-result-dependent sampling (TDS) design, which consists of a simple random component and a test-result-dependent compo...

Control charts are used to see the performance of a process. Nonparametric control present overcome processes with unknown distribution patterns. This paper will show application nonparametric using Sign Test and Wilcoxon Rank on Animal Feed data PT. Japfa Comfeed Indonesia, Tbk. The results that chart has same effectiveness as sign chart.

In recent years, some investigations have been carried out to examine the assumptions like stationarity, symmetry and separability of spatio-temporal covariance function which would considerably simplify fitting a valid covariance model to the data by parametric and nonparametric methods. In this article, assuming a Gaussian random field, we consider the likelihood ratio separability test, a va...

Drop plate technique has a priority and preference compared with the spread plate procedure, because of less time, quantity of media, effort requirement, little incubator space, and less labor intensive. The objective of this research was to compare the accuracy and fidelity of drop plate method vs. spread plate method by parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. For bacterial enumeration...