s in high profile journals often fail to report harm RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS BY THE REVIEWERS Bernal-Delgado E MD PhD MPH1, Fisher ES, MD MPH2 Institute for Health Sciences in Aragon (I+CS)1, Foundation for HealthServices Research1 Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School2 Enrique Bernal-Delgado, MD PhD MPH (Corresponding author) Institute for Healt...

Traditional estimators for nonparametric frontier models (DEA, FDH) are very sensitive to extreme values/outliers. Recently, Aragon, Daouia, and Thomas-Agnan (2005) proposed a nonparametric α-frontier model and estimator based on a suitably defined conditional quantile which is more robust to extreme values/outliers. Their estimator is based on a nonsmooth empirical conditional distribution. In...

A los revisores, por sus acertados comentarios y sugerencias. Grupo de referencia BEAGLE Investigacion en Didactica Ciencias Naturales (Gobierno Aragon Fondo Social Europeo) Instituto en Ciencias Ambientales (IUCA/UNIZAR). Proyecto EDU2016-76743-P (MINECO). Cristina Gil Gonzalez disfruta un contrato predoctoral del Gobierno (ORDEN IIU/1408/2018), Programa Operativo FSE 2014-2020, Construyen...

This paper investigates several linguistic changes which are ongoing in north-western Catalan using a contemporary corpus. We take advantage of a range of dialectometric methods that allow us to calculate and analyze the linguistic distance between varieties in apparent time from an aggregate perspective. Specifically, we pay attention to the process of structural dialect loss due to linguistic...

We have selected Aragon in the northeast of Spain as a long-run case study for the problem of rural depopulation in Mediterranean Western Europe. The strength and persistence of the depopulation in the region has left numerous rural districts in extreme situations of low demographic density. The basic cause of this phenomenon is the intensity of rural-to-urban migratory processes in the Aragone...