Comparing and ranking information is an important topic in social and information sciences, and in particular on the web. Its objective is to measure the difference of the preferences of voters on a set of candidates and to compute a consensus ranking. Commonly, each voter provides a total order of all candidates. In this work we consider the generalization of total orders and bucket orders to ...

The Mann-Kendall test is a commonly-used nonparametric test for time trend. However, the standard P-values obtained from it are based on an assumption of independence between observations (since the theory is that of the Kendall correlation). However, observations in time series are often autocorrelated: knowing that one observation is larger than the mean may tell you that the next observation...

The method of maximum likelihood (ML), introduced by Fisher (1921), is widely used in human and quantitative genetics and we draw upon this approach throughout the book, especially in Chapters 13–16 (mixture distributions) and 26–27 (variance component estimation). Weir (1996) gives a useful introduction with genetic applications, while Kendall and Stuart (1979) and Edwards (1992) provide more ...

A single stable Liebermann-Burchard reagent was prepared and studied for the rapid and accuratedeterminationof total cholesterol in serum. The preparation, stability, and developed spectral character of the proposedreagent were assessed.Reproducibility, recovery, and interference studies on pure standard and patient sera were performed using the Abell-Kendall method as reference. The influence ...

An analogy between celebrated Kendall equation for busy periods in the system M |GI|1 and analytical results for busy periods in the priority systemsMr|GIr |1 is drawn. These results can be viewed as generalizations of the functional Kendall equation. The methodology and algorithms of numerical solution of recurrent functional equations which appear in the analysis of such queueing systems are ...