Browsing by Subject "Ranking and selection (Statistics)"

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    • Bracketing NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament 

      Zhang, Xiao (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This paper presents a new bracketing method for all 63 games in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament. This method, based on the logistic conditional probability models, is self-consistent in terms of constructing ...

    • A Nonparametric Test for the Non-Decreasing Alternative in an Incomplete Block Design 

      Ndungu, Alfred Mungai (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The purpose of this paper is to present a new nonparametric test statistic for testing against ordered alternatives in a Balanced Incomplete Block Design (BIBD). This test will then be compared with the Durbin test which ...