Meta-analysis is a standard statistical method used to combine the conclusions of individual studies that are related and the results of single study alone can not answered to deal with issues. The data are summarized by one or more outcome measure estimates along with their standard errors. The multivariate model and the variations between studies are not considered in most articles. Here we d...

The potential use of TerraSAR-X and Radarsat-2 data for soil moisture retrieval over bare agricultural areas was investigated using both empirical and semi-empirical approaches. For the empirical approach, the Support Vector Regression (SVR) model was used with two cases: (1) using only one C-band or X-band image; and (2) using a pair of C-band and X-band images jointly. For the semi-empirical ...

K E Y W O R D S AND PHRASES Minimax decision rule; squared error loss; Dirichlet process; compact sets; Bayes rules; isotonic regression. l . INTRODUCTION In an often cited paper, BOHLMANN (1976) has considered linear minimax estimators for the mean of a univariate distribution in a nonparametr ic setting under squared error loss. To be precise, BOHLMANN assumes that Fo(x ) is a family of C D F...

Given any Banach space X, let L X 2 denote the Banach space of all measurable functions f : [0, 1] → X for which f 2 := 1 0 f (t) 2 dt