Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The purpose of this paper is to compare in-sample and out-of-sample performances of three parametric and non-parametric ...

Recent work by Wang and Phillips (2009b, 2011) has shown that ill-posed inverse problems do not arise in non-stationary non-parametric regression and there is no need for non-parametric instrumental ...

This short course will provide an overview of non-parametric statistical techniques. The course will first describe what non-parametric statistics are, when they should be used, and their advantages ...

The frequency of left-handedness in the general population is around 11%. Both environmental and genetic models have been proposed to explain the aetiology of human handedness. The majority of genetic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper provides a means for testing the hypothesis that two simple regression lines are parallel, when ...

Abstract: Streamflow disaggregation techniques are used to distribute a single aggregate flow value to multiple sites in both space and time while preserving distributional statistics (i.e., mean, ...