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This paper extends the work of Elal-Olivero (2010) on the alpha-skew normal distribution. The extension is a multivariate version of Elal-Olivero’s univariate case. Then we study the statistical properties of the new extension such as marginal and conditional distribution, closure under convolution with normal random variate. Furthermore, we illustrate the performance of the distribution using simulated data obtained from the generalized distribution via the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm...

This study proposes a new weighted quantile regression method through the introduction of weights based on a recursive estimation of the density function of residuals. The new estimators are strictly related to the quantity quantile method introduced by Radaelli and Zenga in 2006...

In this paper, a new sampling technique is proposed that carries more information than contained in ranked set sample (RSS). The proposed sampling technique is defined by making the use for the idea of visual grouping of population units with respect to a fixed threshold and RSS. We refer to it as RSS-Grouping technique. Under the best informative RSS-Grouping technique, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of the mean of an exponential distribution is derived...

Childhood is the most relevant period for the formation of food preferences. Political institutions, educational agencies and health professionals are quite interested in the evaluation of the actual knowledge of food quality in children because it offers the opportunity to plan educational actions aimed at promoting the health and quality of life of today’s and tomorrow’s citizens. In this paper, we proposed a questionnaire to measure the level of knowledge of the food quality in children....

Although successful entrepreneurship education (EE) is possible through the most effective way to manage teachable skills and competencies, there is no universal pedagogical recipe to teach entrepreneurship. This paper attempts to identify the most appropriate teaching methods and addresses the paucity of entrepreneurial outcomes on university experiences in EE. Using a survey of students at a Naples University, it attempts to advance our understanding of an entrepreneurship education program...

In this paper, four different approaches for the definition of asymptotic confidence intervals for the ratio of two unknown parameters are reviewed and compared via a simulation study. The considered approaches are based on the well known Delta Method and on the distribution of the ratio of correlated normal random variables...

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