Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...

We consider the location-scale family of all multivariate continuous sampling distributions. Any model from the subclass induced by fixing a particular distribution on the unit sphere, combined with a ...

Recently, efforts to develop multivariate models of plant species richness have been extended to include systems where trees play important roles as overstory elements mediating the influences of ...

We adapt a semi-Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework to jointly characterize the space–time variability of seasonal precipitation totals and precipitation extremes across the Northern Great Plains ...