Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications

In this paper we consider some widely utilized classes of discrete distributions and aim to provide a systematic overview about their preservation under convolution. This paper will serve as a detailed reference for the study and applications of the preservation of the discrete NBU(2), NBUCA classes...

Various characterizations of the Beta Weibull Geometric distribution of Bidram et al. (2011), the New Generalized Exponential distribution of Bidram et al. (2012), and the Gamma Exponentiated Weibull distribution of Pinho et al. (2012) are presented. These characterizations are based on: (i) a simple...

For the first time, a four-parameter lifetime model, called the gamma extended Fr´echet distribution, is defined and studied. We obtain some of its mathematical properties. Explicit expressions for the ordinary and incomplete moments, quantile function, mean deviations, R´enyi entropy and reliability...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of symmetric bimodal distribution. We define the distribution by means of a stochastic representation as the mixture of a symmetric component alpha normal random variable with respect to the power of a uniform random variable. The proposed distribution is more...

In this paper, we discuss the prediction of k-records from the future sequence based on observed current records of either kind upper or lower, record coverage and k-records from the same distribution. It is shown that the coverage probability of all proposed prediction intervals are distribution-free....

Some predictive ratio type estimators in two stage sampling are derived following the model free predictive criterion proposed by Basu (1971) and these estimators are compared with the classical multistage ratio estimator and also with Smith’s (1969) multistage ratio estimator. A numerical illustration...

Multiplicative-binomial distribution is one of the distributions that allows for over-dispersion and under-dispersion relative to the standard binomial distribution. It will be shown that the multiplicative-binomial distribution can be a very useful model for these situations. Moreover, the confidence...

In this article we introduce new classes of life distributions namely new better (worse) than used in expectation at specific age t0 NBUE-t0 (NWUE-t0) and harmonic new better (worse) than used in expectation at specific age t0 HNBUE-t0 (HNWUE-t0). The closure properties under various reliability operations...

The present communication considers a discrete dynamic measure of inaccuracy between two residual and past lifetime distributions. Under the assumption that the true distribution F and reference distribution G satisfy the proportional hazard model (PHM) and proportional reversed hazard model (PRHM),...

In this study, we propose a simple robust test for the mean of an exponential distribution by using the simplified version of “Forward Search” (FS) method. The FS method is a powerful general method for identifying outliers and their effects on inferences about the hypothesized model. The simulation...

For analyzing longitudinal ordinal response data, many methods are available to take into account the correlations between responses of the same individual where different methods use different approaches. One of the methods to consider this correlation is the transition (Markov) model. In this paper,...

In this article, we consider a measure of inaccuracy between distributions of the i-th order statistics and parent random variable. It is shown that the inaccuracy measure characterizes the distribution function of parent random variable uniquely. We also discuss some properties of the proposed measure.

The modeling and analysis of lifetimes is an important aspect of statistical work in a wide variety of scientific and technological fields. For the first time, the called Kumaraswamy Pareto distribution, is introduced and studied. The new distribution can have a decreasing and upside-down bathtub failure...

In this note, we establish a law of iterated logarithm for a triangular array of a random number of independent random variables and apply it to obtain laws of iterated logarithm for the sequential nonparametric density estimators. We consider the case of Rosenblatt-Parzen kernel estimators and orthogonal...

The kernel approach has been applied using the adaptive kernel density estimation, to inference on the generalized gamma distribution parameters, based on the generalized order statistics (GOS). For measuring the performance of this approach comparing to the Asymptotic Maximum likelihood estimation,...

This paper proposes a moment-based approximation to the distribution of quadratic forms in gamma random variables. Quadratic forms in order statistics from an exponential population are considered as well. Actually,several test statistics can be expressed in terms of the latter. The density approximants...

There are multiple tests of homogeneity of binomial proportions in the statistics literature. However, when working with sparse data, most test procedures may fail to perform well. In this article we review nine classical and recent testing procedures, including the standard Pearson and likelihood ratio...

The log-logistic distribution (also known as the Fisk distribution in economics) is widely used in survival analysis when the failure rate function presents a unimodal shape. In this paper, we introduce the Zografos- Balakrishnan log-logistic distribution, which contains the log-logistic distribution...

A semi-Markov process with four states, has been applied for modeling two dissimilar unit cold standby systems. At the moment that operating unit fails, the standby unit is switched to operate by using a switching device that is available with unknown probability alpha1. It is also assumed that the failure...

We consider six different estimators of residual heterogeneity in random-effects meta-regression, five estimators already known and implemented in the R package metaphor and one estimator not yet considered in random-effects meta-regression. In a numerical study, we investigate the properties of these...

In this paper, we discuss the optimal accelerated life test plans for Burr type X distribution with log-linear model under periodic inspection and Type I censoring. We obtain the maximum likelihood estimators, the Fisher information and the asymptotic covariance matrix of the maximum likelihood estimators....

The paper considers a linear regression model in high-dimension for which the predictive variables can change the influence on the response variable at unknown times (called change-points). Moreover, the particular case of the heavy-tailed errors is considered. In this case, least square method with...

In this paper, we derive explicit expressions for Bonferroni Curve (BC), Bonferroni index (BI), Lorenz Curve (LC) and Gini index (GI) for the Marshall-Olikn Exponential (MOE) distribution, which have mainly concern with some aspects like poverty, welfare, decomposability, reliability, sampling and inference.We...

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

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