Motivated by the study of an important data set for understanding the large-scale structure of the universe, this work considers the estimation of the reduced second-moment function, or K function, of ...

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 5, No. 2B (June 2011), pp. 1262-1292 (31 pages) Neural spike trains, which are sequences of very brief jumps in voltage across the cell membrane, were one of the ...

It's not unusual for a person to start a new diet and watch the pounds come off easily before hitting a point where the scale won't drop any lower. People often attribute this occurrence to slip ups ...

The hardest part of losing weight may be keeping it off. Research supports this conclusion. Some scientists believe that the human body has a set point weight that it returns to. If you lose weight, ...

Maintaining and managing weight can be tough. Over 42 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children and adolescents in the United States have obesity. Overweight and obesity may be associated with ...

Fixed point theory is a central topic in functional analysis that examines conditions under which a mapping in a Banach space admits points that remain invariant under the transformation. Particularly ...