To identify disease variants, genetic epidemiological methods perform association tests between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypes of interest. Most often, the number of SNPs range ...

We present a test of normality based on a statistic D which is up to a constant the ratio of Downton's linear unbiased estimator of the population standard deviation to the sample standard deviation.

A common statistical problem involves the testing of a K-dimensional parameter vector. In both parametric and semiparametric settings, two types of directional tests - linear combination and ...