This article is concerned with the problem of deciding whether the mean θ of a normal distribution of known variance lies in a specified finite interval (θ-, θ +). Consideration is given to prior ...

Many techniques in survey sampling depend on the possession of information about an auxiliary variable x, or a vector of auxiliary variables, available for the entire population. Regression estimates ...

We propose a numerical optimization approach that can be used to solve portfolio selection problems including several assets and involving objective functions from cumulative prospect theory (CPT).