M.S. Kotb, M. Ahsanullah
Pages: 321 - 329
Let Xi,n,m,k, i = 1, ...,n are n generalized order statistics (gos) based on an absolutely continuous distribution function F. Suppose that ? (x) is an absolutely continuous and monotonically increasing function in (a,b), ???a
Rodrigo R. Pescim, Edwin M.M. Ortega, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Clarice G.B. Demtrio, G.G. Hamedani
Pages: 330 - 347
We introduce a log-linear regression model based on the beta generalized half-normal distribution (Pescim et al., 2010).We formulate and develop a log-linear model using a new distribution so-called the log-beta general- ized half normal distribution.We derive expansions for the cumulative distribution...
Sophy Jacob, K. Jayakumar
Pages: 348 - 355
We propose a new family of circular distributions, obtained by wrapping geometric distribution on Z+ = 0, 1, . . ., around a unit circle. The properties of this new family of distributions are studied.
M. Maswadah, Ali M. Seham, M. Ahsanullah
Pages: 356 - 377
In this paper, the confidence intervals for the generalized gamma distribution parameters are derived based on the Bayesian approach using the informative and non-informative priors and the classical approach, via the Asymptotic Maximum likelihood estimation, based on the generalized order statistics....
Etaf Alshawarbeh, Felix Famoye, Carl Lee
Pages: 378 - 391
Some properties of the four-parameter beta-Cauchy distribution such as the mean deviation and Shannon’s entropy are obtained. The method of maximum likelihood is proposed to estimate the parameters of the distribution. A simulation study is carried out to assess the performance of the maximum likelihood...
Devrim Bilgili, Nader Ebrahimi
Pages: 392 - 402
Many important problems in evolutionary biology begin with observations of phenotypic variation. Suppose time to an event-data are used to map quantitative trait loci (QTL) and underlying population is a mixture of susceptible and non-susceptible subjects. If the cured subjects are ignored we may fail...
G.N. Singh, D. Majhi, S. Prasad, F. Homa
Pages: 403 - 418
This paper considers the problem of estimation of the population mean of the study character under ratio method of imputation when some observations in the sample data are missing at random and the information on an auxiliary variable is readily available on both the occasions in two-occasion successive...
Anwar Hassan, Peer Bilal Ahmad, Anwar H. Joarder
Pages: 419 - 427
In this paper, we study the Bayesian estimation of functions of parameters of some power series distributions. These estimators are better than the classical minimum variance unbiased estimators (MVUE) as given by Patil and Joshi (1970), in the sense that these increase the range of the estimation and...
Abraao D.C. Nascimento, Marcelo Bourguignon, Luz M. Zea, Manoel Santos-Neto, Rodrigo B. Silva, Gauss M. Cordeiro
Pages: 1 - 16
We introduce a new family of distributions called the gamma extended Weibull family. The proposed family includes several well-known models as special cases and defines at least seventeen new special models. Structural properties of this family are studied. Additionally, the maximum likelihood method...
M. Ahsanullah, M. Shakil, B.M. Golam Kibria
Pages: 17 - 26
Characterization of a probability distribution plays an important role in probability and statistics. This paper considers a new characterization of Gompertz-Verhulst distribution. It is hoped that the findings of the paper will be useful for researchers in different fields of applied sciences.
Ramesh C. Gupta, H.C. Taneja, Richa Thapliyal
Pages: 27 - 37
In this paper, we have presented some results for the residual and past entropies of order statistics. Results on the stochastic comparisons based on residual entropy of order statistics are presented. Characterization results for these dynamic entropies based on the sufficient condition for the uniqueness...
S. Minimol, P. Yageen Thomas
Pages: 38 - 45
In this chapter, we derive some recurrence relations satisfied by single and product moments of generalized record values arising from Gompertz and inverted Gompertz distributions. Further, we have obtained characterization of Gompertz and inverted Gompertz distributions based on certain properties of...
Abera Wouhib
Pages: 46 - 64
Multivariate meta-analysis has potential over its univariate counterpart. The most common challenge in univariate or multivariate meta-analysis is estimating heterogeneity parameters in non-negative domains under the random-effects model assumption. In this context, two new multivariate estimation methods...
M.H. Tahir, Muhammad Mansoor, Muhammad Zubair, G.G. Hamedani
Pages: 65 - 82
We introduce a five-parameter continuous model, called the McDonald log-logistic distribution, to extend the two-parameter log-logistic distribution. Some structural properties of this new distribution such as reliability measures and entropies are obtained. The model parameters are estimated by the...
Hans Volkmer
Pages: 83 - 85
It is shown that the normal distribution with mean zero is characterized by the property that the product of its characteristic function and moment generating function is equal to 1.
Gauss M. Cordeiro, Antonio C.R. Braga Junior, Clarice G.B. Demétrio, Edwin M.M. Ortega, Rodrigo R. Pescim
Pages: 86 - 104
We study some mathematical properties of the Kumaraswamy modified Weibull distribution pioneered by Cordeiro et al. [4] not discussed by these authors. This model is quite flexible for analyzing positive data since it contains as special models some widely-known distributions, such as the KumaraswamyWeibull,...
Z. Javanshiri, M. Maadooliat
Pages: 105 - 110
The distributions taken up in two recently published papers are compared and certain characterizations of them are presented. These characterizations are based on: (i) a simple relationship between two truncated moments; (ii) truncated moments of certain functions of the nth order statistic; (iii) truncated...
M.M. Mohie El-Din, S.E. Abu-Youssef, M.KH. Hassan
Pages: 111 - 121
In this paper, the problem of testing exponentiality against used better than aged in convex ordering classes of life distributions is investigated. For this property a nonparametric test is presented based on kernel method. The test is presented for complete and right censored data. Furthermore, Pitman's...
Indranil Ghosh
Pages: 122 - 134
In this article, based on the half-Cauchy distribution, we propose a new distribution called Kumaraswamy- Half-Cauchy distribution. Various explicit expressions for it’s moments, generating and quantile functions, mean deviations, reliability parameter, density function of the order statistics and their...
Devendra Kumar
Pages: 135 - 150
In this paper, explicit expressions and some recurrence relations are derived for marginal and joint moment generating functions of generalized order statistics from extended type II loglogistic distribution. Further the results are deduced for moments of k -- th record values and ordinary order statistics.
Majid Jafari Khaledi, Hamidreza Zareifard, Firoozeh Rivaz
Pages: 151 - 161
By assuming that an underlying Gaussian-Log Gaussian (GLG) random field clipped to yield binary spatial data, we propose a new model which provides flexibility in capturing the effects of heavy tail in latent variables. For our analysis, we adopt a Bayesian framework and develop a Markov chain Monte...
Jagdish Saran, Narinder Pushkarna
Pages: 162 - 174
In this paper we derive some general recurrence relations between moments of progressively Type-II right censored order statistics from a general class of doubly truncated distributions, thus unifying the earlier results in this direction due to several authors.
Husam Awni Bayoud
Pages: 175 - 188
This article deals with the problem of estimating the parameters of the two-parameter exponential lifetime distribution based on Type-II hybrid censored samples from the Bayesian viewpoint. The scale and location parameters are assumed to have exponential and uniform priors respectively. Bayes point...
A. Toomaj, Doostparast M.
Pages: 189 - 195
The concept of system signature is widely used for comparing of mixed (coherent) systems. In practical situa- tions, it is usually impossible to compare mixed systems. To do this, some partial orders are considered in the literature. In this paper, we define a new concept of stochastic order for comparing...
Saieed F. Ateya, Amirah S. Alharthi
Pages: 196 - 204
In this paper, the maximum likelihood estimates (MLE's) of the parameters of a finite mixture of modified Weibull (MW (alpha, beta, gamma)) distributions are obtained based on type-I and type-II censored samples using the EM algorithm. A simulation study is carried out to study the behavior of the mean...
M. Ahsanullah, Valery B. Nevzorov
Pages: 205 - 211
Some distributional properties of Levy distribution are presented. Limiting distributions of the extreme order statistics are given. Based on the distributional properties a characterization of the Levy distribution is shown.