The Choice of Variables in Multiple Regression
Summary This paper is concerned with the analysis of data from a multiple regression of a single variable, y, on a set of independent variables, x 1,x 2,...,xr. It is argued tha...
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III. The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted
At the present time very little can be claimed to be known as to the effects of weather upon farm crops. The obscurity of the subject, in spite of its immense importance to a gr...
Fifty years of dengue in India
Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne, human viral disease in many tropical and sub-tropical areas. In India the disease has been essentially described in the form of case...
The stability of the pinch
The stability of a cylindrical plasma with an axial magnetic field and confined between conducting walls is investigated by solving, for small oscillations about equilibrium, th...
Allocation Rules and Their Error Rates
Summary The problem of choosing allocation rules and assessing their errors of mis-allocation is formulated in general terms. An inequality connecting the average apparent, the ...
Combining Possibly Related Estimation Problems
Summary We have two sets of parameters we wish to estimate, and wonder whether the James-Stein estimator should be applied separately to the two sets or once to the combined pro...
On the Smoothing of Probability Density Functions
Summary We consider the estimation of a probability density function by linear smoothing of the observed density. A basis for estimation is obtained by assuming that the ordinat...
Simultaneously reconstructing viral cross-species transmission history and identifying the underlying constraints
The factors that determine the origin and fate of cross-species transmission events remain unclear for the majority of human pathogens, despite being central for the development...
Nuclear cosmochronology within analytic models of the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood
This paper investigates whether the age of the Galaxy can be deduced from natural radioactivity. I demonstrate that two recent influential claims (by Butcher and by Fowler) that...
Topics in the Investigation of Linear Relations Fitted by the Method of Least Squares
Summary Various topics are reviewed: the effect of modern computers on statistical calculation; analysis by vector components rather than analysis merely of variance; “stepwise ...
Influence of sex on expansion rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms
Abstract Background The UK Small Aneurysm Trial suggested that female sex is an independent risk factor for rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). This study assessed the e...
Phylogenetic information and experimental design in molecular systematics
Despite the widespread perception that evolutionary inference from molecular sequences is a statistical problem, there has been very little attention paid to questions of experi...