Modern exploratory data analysis produces models that are not based on physical theory but that are consistent with pictures of the data. When both X and Y have error ...

We thank Dr. Smith and colleagues for their careful review of published medical literature. We agree that scientific rigor is of greatest importance. However, we disagree with their review of ‘Changes ...

Elaborating on the work of Ibragimov and Has'minskii (1981) we prove a law of large deviations (LLD) for M-estimators, i.e., those estimators which maximize a functional, continuous in the parameter, ...