We propose a distribution-free approach to detect nonlinear relationships by reporting local correlation. The effect of our proposed method is analogous to piecewise linear approximation although the ...

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 authors derive the asymptotic mean and bias of Kendall's tau and Spearman's rho in the presence of left censoring in the bivariate Gaussian copula model. They show that tie corrections for ...

In the past, all staging systems for gastric cancer defined N stage by location of node metastases relative to the primary (Hermanek and Sobin, 1992; JRSGC, 1995). In order to simplify the pN ...