Climate change is found to be the most important global issue in the 21st century, so to monitor its trend is of great importance. Atmospheric General Circulation Models because of their large scale computational grid are not able to predict climatic parameters on a point scale, so small scale methods should be adapted. Among downscaling methods, statistical methods are used as they are easy to...

As is well understood among clinical researchers, medical diagnoses often suffer from substantial measurement error. This is particularly true for mental health diagnoses.1 Reliance on inaccurate diagnosis indicators can substantially compromise researchers’ and clinicians’ ability to reliably evaluate treatment approaches, measure clinical progress, or estimate relationships between patient at...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a non-parametric method for evaluating the relative technical efficiency for each member of a set of peer decision making units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. The original DEA models use positive input and output variables that are measured on a ratio scale, but these models do not apply to the variables in which interval scale data can appe...