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1. Testing for superiority between two variance functions: (Publication); This paper focuses on the problem of testing the null hypothesis that the variance functions of two populations are equal versus one-sided alternatives under a general nonparametric heteroscedastic regression ...; Created on 16 September 2019
2. The role of the p-value in the multitesting problem: (Publication); Modern science frequently involves the analysis of large amount of quantitative information and the simultaneous testing of thousands or even hundreds of thousands null hypotheses. In this context, sometimes, ...; Created on 22 November 2019
3. The apparent genetic anticipation in PMS2-associated lynch syndrome families is explained by birth-cohort effect: (Publication); ... coefficients, thus avoiding testing bias. Results: Family data across three generations, including 123 colorectal cancers, were analyzed. When compared with the first generation, the crude HR for anticipation ...; Created on 26 September 2019
4. Late HIV Diagnosis but Earlier Antiretroviral Treatment Initiation in Northwest Spain: Impact of Current Treatment Guidelines: (Publication); Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...; Created on 24 September 2019
5. A two-sample test for the equality of univariate marginal distributions for high-dimensional data: (Publication); ... of testing the null hypothesis that the marginal distributions of p variables are the same for two groups. We propose a test statistic motivated by the simple idea of comparing, for each of the p variables, ...; Created on 23 September 2019
6. Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric specifications of conditionally heteroscedastic models: (Publication); ... any given specification of arbitrary order and may even be invoked for testing not just GARCH models but also some related models such as autoregressive conditional duration models. The test statistic ...; Created on 17 September 2019
7. The apparent genetic anticipation effect in PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome families is explained by birth-cohort effect: (Publication); ... coefficients, thus avoiding testing bias. Results: Family data across three generations, including 123 colorectal cancers, were analyzed. When compared with the first generation, the crude HR for anticipation ...; Created on 23 August 2019
8. Testing critical points of nonparametric regression curves: application to the management of stalked barnacles: (Publication); Several aquatic living resources are overexploited. An example of this is a barnacle fishery, which is a commercial species that commands high prices in the market. We feel that not enough is known about ...; Created on 23 August 2019
9. Testing equality of a large number of densities under mixing conditions: (Publication); In certain settings, such as microarray data, the sampling information is formed by a large number of possibly dependent small data sets. In special applications, for example in order to perform clustering, ...; Created on 12 December 2018
10. Testing for the Poisson-Tweedie distribution: (Publication); In practice, count data exhibit over-dispersion, zero-inflation and even heavy tails. The Poisson–Tweedie distribution is a flexible parametric family able to accommodate these features. This paper proposes ...; Created on 09 October 2018
11. A model specification test for the variance function in nonparametric regression: (Publication); The problem of testing for the parametric form of the conditional variance is considered in a fully nonparametric regression model. A test statistic based on a weighted L2-distance between the empirical ...; Created on 09 October 2018
12. A new class of tests for multinormality with i.i.d. and garch data based on the empirical moment generating function: (Publication); ... of testing that the innovation distribution of a multivariate GARCH model is Gaussian. We study the finite-sample behavior of the new tests, compare the criteria with alternative existing procedures, and ...; Created on 09 October 2018
13. Characterization of multinormality and corresponding tests of fit, including for GARCH models: (Publication); ... as well as in the context of testing that the innovation distribution of a multivariate GARCH model is Gaussian. We also study the finite-sample behavior of the new tests and compare the new criteria with ...; Created on 09 October 2018
14. Approximating the null distribution of a class of statistics for testing independence ...: (Publication); A class of tests for testing independence whose test statistic is an -norm of the difference between the joint empirical characteristic function and the product of the marginal empirical characteristic ...; Created on 09 October 2018
15. A two-sample test for the error distribution in nonparametric regression based on the characteristic function: (Publication); ... power of the resulting test are evaluated by means of a simulation study. The procedure can be extended to testing for the equality of d>2 error distributions. ...; Created on 09 October 2018
16. Bootstrap-based testing approaches for the assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of biomarkers subject to a limit of detection ...: (Publication); Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of biomarkers through receiver operating characteristic curve analysis frequently involves a limit of detection imposed by the laboratory analytical system precision. ...; Created on 09 October 2018
17. A Diagnostic Test Approach for Multitesting Problems: (Publication); In the last decades, multiple-testing problems have received much attention. Many different methods have been proposed in order to deal with this relevant issue. Most of them are focused on controlling ...; Created on 10 October 2018
18. Asymptotic distribution-free tests for semiparametric regressions with dependent data: (Publication); ... this article, we introduce a novel transformation of this difference that leads to ADF tests with well-known critical values. The general methodology is illustrated with applications to testing for parametric ...; Created on 22 May 2018
19. Bootstrap-based procedures for inference in nonparametric receiver-operating characteristic curve regression analysis: (Publication); ... of generalised additive models for the receiver-operating characteristic curve. The main aim of the paper is to offer new inferential procedures for testing the effect of covariates on the conditional ...; Created on 22 May 2018
20. On the estimation of the characteristic function in finite populations with applications: (Publication); ... design. Applications of the obtained results for the two-sample problem, testing for independence and testing for symmetry are given. ...; Created on 14 May 2018
21. Computationally Efficient Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Error Distribution in Nonparametric Regression: (Publication); Several procedures have been proposed for testing goodness-of-fit to the error distribution in nonparametric regression models. The null distribution of the associated test statistics is usually approximated ...; Created on 14 May 2018
22. Determining optimum wavelengths for leaf water content estimation from reflectance: A distance correlation approach: (Publication); ... kernel smoothing for variable selection in functional data and a wavelet-based weighted LASSO functional linear regression. Our approach proved to have some advantages over these two testing approaches, ...; Created on 24 January 2018
23. A weighted bootstrap approximation for comparing the error distributions in nonparametric regression: (Publication); Several procedures have been proposed for testing the equality of error distributions in two or more nonparametric regression models. Here we deal with methods based on comparing estimators of the cumulative ...; Created on 09 October 2018
24. An extended sequential goodness-of-fit multiple testing method for discrete data ...: (Publication); The sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testing method has recently been proposed as an alternative to the familywise error rate-And the false discovery rate-controlling procedures in high-dimensional ...; Created on 23 January 2018
25. Assessing planar asymmetries in shipbuilding from point clouds: (Publication); ... cloud. Also bootstrap-based procedures are proposed for testing a null hypothesis establishing that the surface has planar symmetry. After checking the validity of the proposed methodology with simulated ...; Created on 18 September 2017
26. Minimum distance estimators for count data based on the probability generating function with applications: (Publication); ... Finally, we provide an application to the problem of testing for separate families of distributions. All applications are illustrated with numerical examples. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
27. Testing spatial heterogeneity in geographically weighted principal components analysis: (Publication); We propose a method to evaluate the existence of spatial variability in the covariance structure in a geographically weighted principal components analysis (GWPCA). The method, that is extensive to locally ...; Created on 18 September 2017
28. Non-parametric ROC summary statistics: (Publication); Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are useful statistical tools for medi- cal diagnostic testing. It has been proved its capability to assess diagnostic marker’s ability to distinguish between ...; Created on 08 September 2017
29. On the similarity analysis of spatial patterns: (Publication); ... the 2D, 3D or nn-D space and the multinomial distribution the statistical approach for testing homogeneity. A simulation method is proposed in order to analyze the applied performance of this idea. ...; Created on 18 January 2017
30. Testing for the symmetric component in skew distributions: (Publication); ... that is to say, testing goodness-of-fit for the symmetric component. This work proposes a test of such hypothesis. Taking into account that the normal law is perhaps the most studied distribution, as a ...; Created on 18 January 2017
31. Boostrap-based procedures for inference in nonparametric ROC regression analysis: (Publication); ... additive models for the ROC curve (ROC-GAM). The main aim of the paper is to oﬀer new inferential procedures for testing the eﬀect of covariates over the conditional ROC curve within the ROC-GAM context. ...; Created on 10 December 2016
32. Robust testing for superiority between two regression curves ...: (Publication); The problem of testing the null hypothesis that the regression functions of two populations are equal versus one-sided alternatives under a general nonparametric homoscedastic regression model is considered. ...; Created on 04 November 2016
33. Methods for testing the Markov condition in the illness–death model: a comparative study ...: (Publication); ... transition probabilities and related curves are available, including the Markov information in the construction of the estimators allows for variance reduction. Therefore, testing for the Markov condition ...; Created on 23 October 2016
34. Adjusted p‐values for SGoF multiple test procedure: (Publication); ... method, which is a method of high interest when one aims to increase the statistical power in a multiple testing scenario. The adjusted p-value is the smallest level at which the SGoF procedure would still ...; Created on 01 September 2017
35. Power, FDR and conservativeness of BB-SGoF method: (Publication); Beta-binomial sequential goodness-of-fit (or BB-SGoF) method for multiple testing has been recently proposed as a suitable modification of the sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testingmethod ...; Created on 01 September 2017
36. An extended sequential goodness-of-fit multiple testing method for discrete data ...: (Publication); The sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testing method has recently been proposed as an alternative to the familywise error rate- and the false discovery rate-controlling procedures in highdimensional ...; Created on 01 September 2017
37. Testing for a class of bivariate exponential distributios: (Publication); Created on 31 August 2017
38. Sgof: An R Package for Multiple Testing Problems ...: (Publication); In this paper we present a new R package called sgof for multiple hypothesis testing. The principal aim of this package is to implement SGoF-type multiple testing methods, known to be more powerful than ...; Created on 04 September 2017
39. A statistical method for geometry inspection from point clouds: (Publication); ... procedures are proposed for testing the null hypothesis. In order to validate the methodology a simulated study was conducted. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied to the inspection of a parabolic ...; Created on 04 September 2017
40. A nonparametric test for Markovianity in the illness-death model: (Publication); ... fails in some applications, leading to inconsistent estimates. In this paper, we provide a new approach for testing Markovianity in the illness-death model. The new method is based on measuring the future–past ...; Created on 08 September 2017
41. Testing Markovianity in the three-state progressive model via future-past association: (Publication); ... through the Aalen-Johansen estimator. However, Aalen-Johansen may be biased when the underlying process is not Markov. In this paper, we provide a new approach for testing Markovianity in the three-stat ...; Created on 08 September 2017
42. Variable selection in regression models used to analyse Global Positioning System accuracy in forest environments: (Publication); ... on hypothesis testing. The results reveal that our methodology reduces the number of significant variables by approximately 50% and that both forestry and GPS-signal-related variables are significant. ...; Created on 08 September 2017
43. Testing for one-sided alternatives in nonparametric censored regression: (Publication); Created on 08 September 2017
44. A Simulation Study on the Impact of Strong Dependence in High-Dimensional Multiple-Testing I: The Case without Effects: (Publication); When working with high-dimensional biological data the so-called multiple hypothesis testing problem emerges. That is, when many separate tests are performed, several will be significant by chance provoking ...; Created on 10 January 2019
45. An R Package For Analyzing Factor‐By‐Curve Interactions: (Publication); ... the derivative curves, and binning techniques were applied to speed up computation in the estimation and testing processes. The software is illustrated using biological data. ...; Created on 21 September 2017
46. Testing markovianity in the three-state progressive models via future-past association: (Publication); Created on 21 September 2017
47. ROC curve and covariates: extending induced methodology to the non-parametric framework: (Publication); ... mean, but also on the variance of the diagnostic test. We also present a bootstrap-based method for testing for a significant covariate effect on the ROC curve. To illustrate the method, endocrine data ...; Created on 08 September 2017
48. Assessing neural activity related to decision-making through flexible odds ratio curves and their derivatives: (Publication); ... were applied to speed up computation in the estimation and testing processes. A simulation study was conducted to assess the validity of these bootstrap‐based tests. This methodology was applied to study ...; Created on 08 September 2017
49. An R Package For Analyzing Factor‐By‐Curve Interactions: (Publication); ... the derivative curves, and binning techniques were applied to speed up computation in the estimation and testing processes. The software is illustrated using biological data. ...; Created on 08 September 2017
50. Testing Markovianity in the three-state progressive model via future-past association: (Publication); Created on 21 September 2017