in this research, the accelerated ripening of the kabkab dates from khalal to tamr using nacl and acetic acid solutions was studied. fruits at khalal stage were harvested and washed with distilled water before being treated with ripening inducers: 1. nacl solutions, 2. acetic acid solutions and 3. aqueous solution of nacl (1%) and acetic acid. moisture, ph, colour, brix and textural firmness of...

In survival analysis, deviations from proportional hazards may sometimes be explained by unaccounted random heterogeneity, or frailty. This paper recalls the literature on omitted covariates in survival analysis and shows in a case study how unstably frailty models might behave when asked to account for unobserved heterogeneity in standard survival analysis with no replications per heterogeneit...

In this manuscript, we discuss the distinction of two types of data generating scheme for the accelerated failure time model. We identify two different empirical likelihood formulations under random right censoring, case-wise and residual-wise, each reflecting the relevant features of the stochastic model assumed to have generated the data. We specifically propose the case-wise empirical likeli...