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Kuo-Ching Chiou and
Lee-Ing Tong A novel means of estimating quantiles
for $2$-parameter Weibull distribution
under the right random censoring model 1--26
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Naftali A. Langberg and
Benjamin Reiser Limiting distributions for statistics
based on different samples . . . . . . . 27--48
Dane W. Wu A new measure of attributable risk and
its stratification . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
Ömer Öztürk Robust estimation of regression and
scale parameters in linear models . . . 59--87
Tae-Sung Kim and
Dae-Hee Ryu A central limit theorem for stationary
linear processes generated by associated
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--98
L. Abbaoui and
A. Bendjeddou Exact stationary solutions for a class
of nonlinear oscillators . . . . . . . . 99--106
A. Gandomi and
S. Noorbaloochi and
A. Bozorgnia Linex Bayes estimation of Weibull
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118
Seung Hoe Choi and
Hae Kyung Kim and
Byung Heum Song Optimal nonlinear $ L_p $-norm
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--131
S. K. Liang and
Y. H. Hung and
K. S. Chen Using the signal-to-noise ratio to
evaluate the teller performance in the
banking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--148
Sadao Tomizawa and
Masahiko Sagae and
Makiko Uehara Power-divergence type measure of
departure from an entropy model . . . . 149--163
M. Gürcan and
Y. Öner On the existence problem in logistic
regression models by alternative form 165--174
Wen-Pei Sung and
Kuen-Suan Chen and
Cheer Germ Go The effective method of evaluation for
the quality control of steel reinforcing
bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--193
Seonha Lee Classification of the person groups
using the individual behavior model in
the information society . . . . . . . . 195--205
Kee-Hoon Kang On adaptive estimation of regression
coefficients with symmetric errors . . . 207--220
Shaul K. Bar-Lev Applying the Neyman--Pearson lemma to
distributions with terminal points
depending upon a parameter . . . . . . . 221--225
Ching-Ho Leu and
K. S. Chen On a modification of the circular
systematic sampling . . . . . . . . . . 227--246
Igor Zurbenko Algorithm of local information . . . . . 247--275
Ruzong Fan and
Joanna Floros and
Momiao Xiong Transmission disequilibrium test of two
unlinked disease loci; application to
respiratory distress syndrome . . . . . 277--308
Matthias J. Müller Finite biprediction tests in
treatment-response contingency tables 1--18
Jann-Pygn Chen Evaluating the bootstrap p control chart 19--30
Min Tsao Uniform validity of Lugannani--Rice
expansion for the tail probability of a
sample mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37
Anna Kokla and
George Tzavelas A mathematical model for the Gensini
index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
Mario Abundo Some comparison results of solutions of
diffusion and jump-diffusion equations 51--78
Wolfgang Stummer Decision risk reductions for stock
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--99
Elies Kouider Least-squares estimation of Pareto
parameters by judgment ordered
ranked-set samples . . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
G. H. Lin Process incapability index for
contaminated normal processes . . . . . 119--130
Dane W. Wu Some study of kurtosis: a new measure of
peakedness for distributions . . . . . . 131--137
D. B. Panagiotakos and
C. Pitsavos and
G. Tzavelas An attempt to analyze series of
epidemiological data using multiple
correspondence analysis: an application
to cardio2000 database . . . . . . . . . 139--147
Chiehwen Ed Hsu and
Dejian Lai and
Charles Begley and
Luisa Franzini The association between income and
mortality in Texas and Taiwan --- a
comparative study of spatial statistics 149--176
Yong Mun and
Jisun Mun A time-dependent Poisson process
approach to chain smoking behavior . . . 177--187
S. J. Liao and
K. S. Chen and
R. K. Li Capability evaluation for processes of
the larger-the-better type for
non-normal populations . . . . . . . . . 189--198
Sana S. BuHamra and
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly and
Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi Nonparametric change point tests for
randomly censored data . . . . . . . . . 199--216
M. L. Huang and
Y. H. Hung Capability analysis for an entire
product with symmetric tolerances . . . 217--231
Sadao Tomizawa and
Tomoyuki Hashimoto Power-divergence type measure of
departure from uniform association for
cross-classifications having ordered
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--248
Miroslaw Krzysko and
Waldemar Wolynski Pairwise multiple discriminant analysis 249--268
Denise Benton and
K. Krishnamoorthy Performance of the parametric bootstrap
method in small sample interval
estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--285
C. Koukouvinos and
P. Mantas $ E(s^2) $-optimal supersaturated
designs constructed from conference
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--300
George Tzavelas and
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos Optimal prediction for diagnostic tests
using logistic regression analysis: an
algorithm and large sample properties 301--309
M. Salicrú and
S. Vives and
J. Sanchez and
F. Oliva Asymptotic and bootstrap methodologies
on the estimation of the sonorous
sensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--322
H. Evangelaras and
I. Kotsireas and
C. Koukouvinos Application of Gröbner bases to the
analysis of certain two or three level
factorial designs . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Erhard Reschenhofer and
Lakdere Benkherouf Automatic continuous smoothing . . . . . 15--32
Ayman Baklizi Acceptance sampling based on truncated
life tests in the Pareto distribution of
the second kind . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
Gideon Doron and
Camil Fuchs and
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
David Navon and
Hani Zubida Deferred forced choice questions:
theoretical aspects and empirical
experimentation in political surveys . . 49--66
M. E. Ghitany and
D. K. Al-Mutairi A generalized geometric distribution and
its application . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76
S. Rao Jammalamadaka and
Tomasz J. Kozubowski A new family of circular models: the
wrapped Laplace distributions . . . . . 77--103
Kuldeep Kumar and
Mukesh Srivastava On the specification of error structure
in the linear regression model . . . . . 105--133
Karan P. Singh and
Alfred A. Bartolucci and
Shimin Zheng Mixed-effects linear models based on
elliptically contoured distribution
assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--143
Felix Famoye and
Karan P. Singh On inflated generalized Poisson
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Ravi Gor and
Nita H. Shah An order level lot-size model with time
dependent deterioration and permissible
delay in payments . . . . . . . . . . . 159--172
Ahmad A. Zghoul Estimating the Cauchy location and scale
parameters using empirical
characteristic function . . . . . . . . 173--181
Kwang-Hee Han Almost sure convergence for a linear
process generated by NA sequence . . . . 183--189
Wai-Cheung Ip and
Heung Wong and
Qinghu Chen Identification of ballistic texture
using wavelet decomposition . . . . . . 191--198
Gareth O. Roberts and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Downweighting tightly knit communities
in World Wide Web rankings . . . . . . . 199--216
Werner Hürlimann A generalized Benford law and its
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--228
H. A. Charif Confidence intervals for the variance
ratio in mixed linear models . . . . . . 229--241
Teag-Hee Lee and
Bo-Hyun Yun and
Young-Chul Kim Neural network-based image retrieval
using nonlinear combining of
heterogeneous features . . . . . . . . . 243--254
K. Jayakumar and
P. C. Sreenivas On discrete stable laws . . . . . . . . 255--266
Hee-Kyung Yoo and
Hea-Jung Kim and
Dae-Hwang Kim A Bayesian approach for ordering
products of independent normal means . . 267--283
Daya K. Nagar and
María Eugenia Castañeda Testing multisample compound symmetry 285--292
K. J. Peschell and
S. Bae and
R. Shanmugam and
A. A. Bartolucci and
K. P. Singh Therapeutic equivalence assessment (TEA)
for exponential data . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
M. E. Ghitany and
F. A. Al-Awadhi and
S. A. Al-Awadhi Modeling the presence of long-term
survivors using generalized Burr XII
mixture model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26
Sana S. BuHamra and
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Nonparametric change point tests for
LTRC data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--44
H. Evangelaras and
E. Kolaiti and
C. Koukouvinos Regular fractional factorial designs:
resolution, defining relations and
blocking via coding theory . . . . . . . 45--58
Wei-Kwang Huang and
Wan-Kai Pang The noncentral chi-square distribution
revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
Yoko Tanokura and
Genshiro Kitagawa Power contribution analysis for
multivariate time series with correlated
noise sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--95
Jae-Hak Lim and
Dae-Kyoung Kim and
Dong Ho Park Testing the equality of NBU-ness at a
specified age . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
Merry Eapen and
K. K. Jose Modified ratio estimators of the finite
population mean based on multi-auxiliary
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
Dae-Hee Ryu Complete convergence for weighted sums
of AANA random variables . . . . . . . . 117--128
Miquel Salicrú and
Antonio Vaamonde Confidence intervals for capability
indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--137
Sana S. BuHamra Application of preliminary test and
shrinkage estimation in change point
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--153
Tae Soo Kim and
Joung Nam Lee and
Jong Hyouk Kim On the combinations of random number
generators and empirical tests . . . . . 155--166
Gengsheng Qin and
Min Tsao and
Yu-Sheng Hsu Empirical likelihood ratio confidence
interval for the Winsorized mean . . . . 167--180
H. Evangelaras and
C. Koukouvinos Statistical criteria for evaluating
fractional factorial designs . . . . . . 181--193
B. S. Bhullar and
Pritpal Singh On the use of design of experiments in
the cluster sampling . . . . . . . . . . 195--207
Adnan Mazmano\uglu Variance analyses of advantages and
disadvantages of the service that active
financial associations provide their
customers solution by the model of
hierarchy classification with two
factors and their applications . . . . . 209--222
Kenichi Satoh and
Hirokazu Yanagihara and
Megu Ohtaki Clustering method by connected
neighborhoods and its application . . . 223--231
Ashok K. Nag and
Amit Mitra Time series lag selection using genetic
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--251
Ibrahim M. Abdalla Extra-variation and Bayesian binomial
regression models for estimating
earnings probabilities using a three-way
layout income data . . . . . . . . . . . 253--264
Erhard Reschenhofer On subset selection and beyond . . . . . 265--286
Daya K. Nagar and
Elizabeth Bedoya and
Elkin Lubin Arias Non-central complex matrix-variate beta
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--302
Mohamed G. Habib and
Adel I. Bargal and
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly On testing for a change in variance: new
tests and a Monte Carlo study . . . . . 303--326
Salina S. T. Lau and
H. Wong Modelling seasonal conditional
heteroscedasticity . . . . . . . . . . . 327--355
Tatjana Pavlenko and
Dietrich von Rosen On the optimal weighting of
high-dimensional Bayesian networks . . . 357--377
Gary K. C. Chan and
Hailiang Yang Ruin problems under feedback model with
random interest . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--395
Mohamed A. Ismail and
Tarek I. Eldomiaty Bayesian identification of the
predictors for capital structure in
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Umberto Amato and
Theofanis Sapatinas Wavelet shrinkage approaches to baseline
signal estimation from repeated noisy
measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--50
Tsung-Shan Tsou and
Li-Chu Chien Parametric robust tests for multiple
regression parameters under generalized
linear models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--86
A. V. Kelarev A statistical algorithm for computing
information rates of codes with computer
algebra systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
Luigi Salmaso Permutation tests in screening two-level
factorial experiments . . . . . . . . . 91--110
George Tzavelas and
Athanasios G. Paliatsos and
Nikolaos Prezerakos Distribution of the extreme annual
precipitation over urban areas . . . . . 111--123
Werner Hürlimann Properties and measures of dependence
for the Archimax copula . . . . . . . . 125--143
Yichuan Zhao and
Zhiheng Xu Inference for the mixed discrete and
continuous Cox regression model via
empirical likelihood . . . . . . . . . . 145--157
Yonghwan Um A new generalization of Cohen's kappa to
multivariate interval data and several
observers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
Olcay Akman Iterative mixture estimation for models
with length-biased component . . . . . . 171--182
C. C. Y. Dorea and
G. L. Gilardoni and
C. R. Gonçalves Stationary distribution estimation in
hidden Markov models . . . . . . . . . . 183--195
M. Khoshnevisan and
Sukanto Bhattacharya and
Florentin Smarandache Optimal plant layout design for
process-focused systems . . . . . . . . 197--208
Chang C. Y. Dorea Measuring asymptotic dependence of
extremes and tests based on tail indexes 209--227
Jorge Navarro and
José M. Ruiz A note on the discrete normal
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--245
Ahmed H. Youssef Finite sample properties of the random
coefficients regression model . . . . . 247--256
G. A. Berti and
M. Monti and
L. Salmaso DoE techniques applied to the modelling
of scale in hot forging and relevant
effects on temperature distribution and
forging load in the tooling system . . . 257--269
P. C. Consul and
Felix Famoye Dev probability distribution and some of
its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--287
Chang-Hung Hung Physical fitness indices . . . . . . . . 289--299
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Satoshi Shinohara and
Akira Inoue and
Sadao Tomizawa A note on different selection of
best-fitting model by likelihood ratio
test and Akaike information criterion
for the analysis of contingency tables 301--312
Shuangge Ma Constraint maximum likelihood estimation
of relative risk . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--323
Mekki Terbeche and
Broderick O. Oluyede Two stage design for estimation of mean
difference in the exponential family . . 325--339
Daya K. Nagar and
José Angel Alvarez Properties of the hypergeometric
function type I distribution . . . . . . 341--351
J. Annaert and
G. Brys and
M. De Ceuster A new large sample test of univariate
symmetry: a comparative size-power study 353--370
Jyh-Jiuan Lin and
Ching-Hui Chang and
Nabendu Pal A brief review of shrinkage estimation
of a multivariate normal mean with
extension to multiple linear regression 371--399
Yang Yang and
Isao Shoji and
Sumei Kanehiro Optimal dividend policy of life
insurance company with policyholders'
dynamically inconsistent time
preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
Wei Kwang Huang On the noncentral chi-square
distribution --- a computer-aided
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--32
George Stoica and
Michael T. Bradley False discovery rate due to additional
outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
Theodora Dimitrakopoulou and
Konstantinos Adamidis and
Sotirios Loukas On the gamma frailty model . . . . . . . 41--52
A. V. Kelarev Computing statistics for polynomial
codes: an algorithm based on the
Mann--Whitney $U$-test . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Riquan Zhang and
Yiqiang Lu and
Yusheng Zhang Functional-Coefficient partially linear
time series models for hydrology . . . . 57--69
Janelle S. Erickson and
James D. Stamey and
John W. Seaman Bayesian methods for bioequivalence
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Andreas Loizos and
Matthew G. Karlaftis Neural networks and non-parametric
statistical models: a comparative
analysis in pavement condition
assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--110
Mark Fielding and
Fima C. Klebaner and
Zinoviy Landsman Random volatility and option prices with
the generalized Student-$t$ distribution 111--120
S. Mandal and
M. Samanta O-BLUE and minimum MSE linear estimator
of the location parameter of an
exponential distribution with known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 121--128
Rahim Chinipardaz and
Seyed Mahmoud Latifi Time series discriminant analysis of $ A
R(p) $ plus noise processes: a time
domain approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
Isamu Dôku A certain class of immigration
superprocesses and its limit theorem . . 145--205
Tae-Soo Kim and
Jung-Ho Ahn Support vector machine with kernel
methods and simulations . . . . . . . . 207--216
Olcay Akman and
Sevtap Kestel Length-biased inverse Gaussian hazard
rate estimation: a predictive density
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--233
George Stoica Non-parametric estimation of Barlow's
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--240
R. O. Simwa On statistical modelling of floods and
drought insurance products for
developing countries . . . . . . . . . . 241--248
Fulong Han and
Yiqiung Lu and
Riquan Zhang Inferences on single index models . . . 249--259
Abdul Aziz Jemain and
Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari Double percentile ranked set samples for
estimating the population mean . . . . . 261--276
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Frank A. Van Der Duyn Schouten Likelihood-based inference for series
system reliability . . . . . . . . . . . 277--294
Anouar Ben Mabrouk and
Nidhal Ben Abdallah Study of some multinomial cascades . . . 295--303
Mavis Pararai and
Felix Famoye and
Carl Lee Generalized Poisson regression model for
underreported counts . . . . . . . . . . 305--322
B. Re. Victorbabu and
V. Vasundharadevi and
B. Viswanadham Modified second order response surface
designs, rotatable designs using
pairwise balanced designs . . . . . . . 323--334
Peter Congdon Modelling hospital activity: accounting
for small area and primary care practice
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--351
Fulong Han and
Riquan Zhang and
Jingyan Feng and
Zhiqiang Zhang Uniform coverage rate of nonparametric
kernel estimate under mixing dependent
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--359
Ferdinand J. Paraguas and
Madan Mohan Dey and
Anton Abdulbasah Kamil Spatial linear approximate to almost
ideal demand system . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
I. Irigoien and
E. Fernandez and
S. Vives and
C. Arenas Clapper: a clustering algorithm based on
path-distances for experimental
replicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--398
D. K. Shangodoyin and
O. O. Obe and
R. Arnab and
S. S. Dlamini Tool support for systematic test data
generation using genetic algorithms . . 399--409
George Stoica A Baum--Katz law under regularly varying
moment conditions . . . . . . . . . . . 411--417
David M. Day and
Irene Bevc and
Thierry Duchesne and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and
Lianne Rossman and
Frances Theodor Comparison of adult offense prediction
methods based on juvenile offense
trajectories using cross-validation . . 1--46
Sadao Tomizawa and
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Noriaki Ohba Improved approximate unbiased estimators
of measures of asymmetry for square
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 47--63
Rosa Arboretti and
Livio Corain and
Marco Marozzi Nonparametric pooling of preference
ratings for conjoint analysis
experiments with application on health
assistance service . . . . . . . . . . . 65--80
Lii-Yuh Leu and
Kuan-Fu Shen Optimal step-stress accelerated life
test plans with progressive type-II
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
C. Arenas and
F. Mestres RMDSE: an extension to related metric
scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--113
Jie Chen and
A. K. Gupta A Bayesian approach to the statistical
analysis of a smooth-abrupt change point
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--126
Abdul Aziz Jemain and
Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari Multistage percentile ranked set samples 127--139
G. A. Tripsiannis and
A. N. Philippou and
A. A. Papathanasiou Multivariate generalized run-related
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
Sara Diallo Estimation of the change-points of the
mean residual life function . . . . . . 157--174
Broderick O. Oluyede and
Mekki Terbeche On weighted covariance and vitality
orderings with application to the
exponential family . . . . . . . . . . . 175--192
S. El Adlouni and
T. B. M. J. Ouarda and
B. Bobée Orthogonal projection $L$-moment
estimators for three-parameter
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--209
Gregory A. Tripsiannis and
Afroditi A. Papathanasiou and
Andreas N. Philippou Multivariate extended generalized
distributions of order $k$ . . . . . . . 211--227
Carlo Grillenzoni Statistical optimization of digital
image enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244
Xikui Wang Stochastic order and bandit processes
with survival time responses . . . . . . 245--254
Ferran Galán and
Francesc Oliva and
Joan Gu\`ardia Assessment and comparison of
discriminant analysis methods and
non-parametric error estimators with
mixed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--280
K. Azam and
A. Grami and
K. Mohammad and
Gh. Jandaghi and
M. Karimlou and
A. Kazemnejad Estimation of parameters in
unconditional categorical regression
models with incomplete data in
covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--290
James P. Hobert and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Norm comparisons for data augmentation 291--302
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos and
George Dedoussis Classification trees in determining
health outcomes, using genetic
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
Nicolas Gomez and
Victor M. Guerrero Restricted VAR forecasts of economic
time series with contemporaneous
constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--340
A. Dimitri and
M. Talamo A meta-analysis framework based on
hierarchical mixture model . . . . . . . 341--356
John E. Goulionis and
V. K. Benos A maintenance policy under Markovian
deterioration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--388
Wan Kai Pang and
Shui Hung Hou and
Marvin D. Troutt and
Bosco Wing Tong Yu A Bayesian approach to the estimation of
Pareto distribution with an application
in insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--401
Yu-Jan Shen and
Kuan-Fu Shen and
Ming-Chih Lee Mixed GARCH-jump models with generalized
error distribution for assets returns 403--416
J. I. Odiase and
S. M. Ogbonmwan Exact permutation paradigm in
multisample experiments . . . . . . . . 417--434
Ateq A. Al-Ghamedi A robust estimation of spline function 435--440
Jang Sik Cho Multiple comparisons for Freund's
bivariate exponential populations based
on fractional Bayes factor . . . . . . . 441--449
I. D. Essi and
J. O. Iyaniwura On robustness and choosing between two
nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--462
K. Aneesh Kumar and
M. Manoharan Modelling seed germination --- an
application of phase type distribution 1--18
E. Di Nardo and
G. Guarino and
D. Senato A Maple algorithm for polykays and
multivariate polykays . . . . . . . . . 19--36
Seemon Thomas and
Alex Thannippara and
A. M. Mathai On a matrix-variate generalized Type-2
Dirichlet density . . . . . . . . . . . 37--56
Y. S. Yang Evaluation of Johnson's system for
transforming non-normal data . . . . . . 57--71
Key-Il Shin and
Sang Eun Lee and
Yonghee Kim-Park A note on small area estimations for
rare event data . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
G. Kourlaba and
D. Panagiotakos and
V. Stavrinos The diagnostic accuracy of composite
indices is associated with the number of
partitions of their components: a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Jang Sik Cho and
Chang Wan Kang and
Seung Bae Choi Bayesian testing for independence in
Marshall and Olkin's bivariate
exponential model . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
Vyacheslav M. Abramov and
Fima C. Klebaner Prediction of missing observations by a
control method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--129
B. Re. Victorbabu On modified second order slope rotatable
designs using incomplete block designs
with unequal block sizes . . . . . . . . 131--151
Ingrid Kreuzmair and
Helge Toutenburg Sensitivity of the restricted least
squares estimator under misspecified
restrictions and multicollinearity . . . 153--175
Fawaz S. Al-Anzi Modeling Arabic language diacritized
names Markovian chains . . . . . . . . . 177--192
Mekki Hajlaoui On multivariate economical quality
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--207
Sadao Tomizawa and
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Masaya Sakurai Decomposition of independence model and
separability of its test statistic for
two-way contingency tables with ordered
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--218
Mohamed Bentarzi and
Fay?? Hamdi Mixture periodic autoregression with
periodic ARCH errors . . . . . . . . . . 219--246
Alexandros A. Zimbidis and
Athanasios A. Pantelous Dynamic hedging of the mortality risk
via a continuous control strategy of the
portfolio of investments of a pension
fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--289
Zhiqiang Zhang and
Riquan Zhang and
Jingyan Feng Stationarity of squares sequences from $
{\rm ARCH}(1) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
Kouji Tahata and
Ryota Tomisato and
Sadao Tomizawa An improved approximate unbiased
estimator of log-odds ratio for $ 2
\times 2 $ contingency tables . . . . . 1--12
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and
Emilia I. de la Fuente-Solana and
Luis Manuel Lozano-Fernández Bayesian inference for binomial
populations. Bayesian estimation for
child depression prevalence . . . . . . 13--35
Rabindra Nath Das and
Sung H. Park On $D$-optimal robust first order
designs with tri-diagonal errors . . . . 37--51
Felix Famoye Bivariate generalized Poisson regression
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--69
Alexandros A. Zimbidis Optimal management of the safety loading
and the exposure to proportional
reinsurance coverage of an ordinary
insurance system using a diffusion
approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--100
Randall J. Swift A birth-death process with deterministic
mean population . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
D. K. Shangodoyin and
P. M. Kgosi and
K. Setlhare A comparison of distribution test
statistics for detecting outliers in
dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--125
Yuh-Ing Chen and
Kuang-Lu Wang Simultaneous nonparametric confidence
regions for comparing successive
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--139
George Stoica A counterexample concerning a series of
T. L. Lai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--144
Rohan J. Dalpatadu and
Ashok K. Singh A numerical method for computing the
probability distribution of a finite sum
of independent nonnegative random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--152
Thierry Ane and
Guillaume Fabre Local dependence functions for North and
South American stock index returns . . . 153--176
Halina Frydman and
Gary Simon Discrete quantile estimation . . . . . . 177--203
John E. Goulionis and
Dimitrios I. Stengos The partially observable Markov decision
processes framework in medical decision
making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--232
Jiantian Wang On beta-family distributions . . . . . . 233--246
Wei Ning Detecting an unconditionally
identifiable pattern in two-way ANOVA 247--260
Rosa Arboretti A permutation approach for multivariate
repeated measures with application to a
complex randomized clinical trial . . . 261--282
Wen-Xin Wang and
Yan-Peng Ma Stochastic comparisons of excess
lifetimes of renewal processes based
upon generalized stochastic orderings 283--292
Wei Liu and
Wan-Kai Pang and
Ping-Kei Leung and
Shui-Hung Hou A note on the comparison of several
linear regression models . . . . . . . . 293--301
George Tzavelas Some new results concerning the
efficiency of the method of moments
estimators for the location parameter
case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
Yonghwan Um A new multivariate measure of
association for nominal independent
variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24
Mariana Craiu and
Radu V. Craiu Choice of parametric families of copulas 25--40
Jiafu Ren and
Zongfang Zhou and
Lin Chen On dynamic combined credit evaluation
and error estimation to the ETF's
service agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--53
Kent Riggs and
Dean M. Young and
James D. Stamey Statistical inference for a bivariate
Poisson regression model . . . . . . . . 55--73
J. H. Sepanski and
Lingji Kong A family of generalized beta
distributions for income . . . . . . . . 75--84
John J. Hsieh Exact distributions of the empirical
generalized survival and distribution
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--109
Paolo C. Cozzucoli On the genuine replicate design for
statistical calibration . . . . . . . . 111--130
Ezz H. Abdelfattah A parametric estimation of Weibull
density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--147
Yang Shi and
Zhiqiang Zhang and
Riquan Zhang On almost sure limit theorem and strong
law of large numbers for squares
sequence from ARCH(1) . . . . . . . . . 149--154
Jorge Garcia Convergence of stochastic integrals and
SDE's associated to approximations of
the Gaussian white noise . . . . . . . . 155--177
David D. Hanagal and
Kambiz Ahmadi Angali Bayesian estimation of parameters in
some bivariate exponential models . . . 179--193
A. K. Gupta and
D. G. Kabe On the distribution of the
magnitude-squared coherence estimator 195--200
M. Khodabakhshi Using feasible directions to prove the
existence of strong efficient unit in
data envelopment analysis . . . . . . . 201--206
Jennifer L. Asimit and
W. John Braun and
William A. Simpson On a threshold model for estimating
response bias and its application to
choice reaction time data . . . . . . . 207--218
O. I. Shittu and
T. A. Oyeniyi and
T. O. Olatayo The seasonality of birth in urban
southwestern Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . 219--235
Junfeng Shang A note on the relationship between
influential observations and model
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
K. Thiagarajah Fuzzy estimation of the parameters in
location-scale models . . . . . . . . . 247--258
Isao Shoji A simple numerical method of checking
normality in statistical models . . . . 259--275
Afaf M. Mady A Bayesian approach for an exponential
parameter with delayed observations . . 277--284
Jang Sik Cho Bayesian testing in Marshall and Olkin's
bivariate exponential model with
bivariate random censored data . . . . . 285--293
Q. D. Katatbeh and
M. T. Alodat and
K. M. Aludaat Up-crossings rate by the product of two
Gaussian processes . . . . . . . . . . . 295--301
Sumith Gunasekera and
Malwane M. A. Ananda Unbalanced two-way ANOVA additive model
under heteroscedasticity using
generalized $p$-values . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Tasos C. Christofides Randomized response without a
randomization device . . . . . . . . . . 15--28
Mohammad Ahmad Ali Al-Saleh and
Suhaila Humoud Al-Farhoud Multivariate model for bankruptcy
prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45
Xiaoqian Sun and
Zhuoqiong He An efficient simulation algorithm for
Bayesian spatial analysis via the
generalized ratio-of-uniforms method . . 47--63
Merlin Guy Nkodia Amortization possibilities in the
explosive evolution of poverty in
Congo--Brazzaville: an econometrical
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--85
Amelia V. García Luengo and
Inmaculada Oña Casado A note on sampling over two occasions
for the estimation of current population
product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--99
M. L. Menéndez and
L. Pardo and
K. Zografos Preliminary test and Stein-type
estimation of location parameter for
elliptically contoured distributions . . 101--136
Nadia Oukid and
Amar Aissani Bounds on busy period for queues with
breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and
Sergi Valera Pertegas and
Daniel Carro Lemos and
Emilia Inmaculada De La Fuente Solana Bayesian structural equation models:
analysis of two alternative models about
safety perception . . . . . . . . . . . 157--172
Sumihiro Suzuki and
Michael I. Baron $ \epsilon $-Bayes sequential plan . . . 173--183
K. Farahmand and
T. Li Single retrial queues with loss of
customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197
Guglielmo D'Amico and
Giuseppe Di Biase and
Jacques Janssen and
Raimondo Manca Patient's age depending HIV/AIDS
evolution analysis by means of a
non-homogeneous semi-Markov model . . . 199--215
Chang-Hung Hung and
Jung-Chi Su and
Wen-Tzung Chen Obesity prevalence and an evaluation
model for weight control performance . . 217--228
S. Darwis and
N. Sunusi and
A. Y. Gunawan and
I. W. Mangku and
S. Wahyuningsih Single decrement approach for estimating
earthquake hazard rate . . . . . . . . . 229--237
Seung-Hwan Lee and
Eun-Joo Lee Confidence interval of survival function
for extreme value distribution with
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--253
Takahiro Nishiyama On the multiple comparisons among the
components of the mean vector in
repeated measure design . . . . . . . . 255--272
Changyong Feng and
Carlo Ercoli and
Hongyue Wang A simple nonparametric approach of
survival data with two-stage outcomes of
different scales . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Nader Fallah and
Mohammad Reza Eshraghian and
Kazem Mohammad and
Keramat Nourijelyani and
Reza Hamidian and
Mahdi Najafi Does magnesium affect the risk of atrial
fibrillation? An approach using
generalized additive logistic regression 11--23
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos and
Urania Dafni Evaluation of stopping rules for
stochastic curtailment . . . . . . . . . 25--36
Maria Grazia Zoia A unified representation theorem on new
algebraic bases, for (co)integrated
processes up to the second order . . . . 37--66
Jing Zhang and
Chong Z. He and
David R. Mehr and
Robin L. Kruse Analyzing pressure ulcer development in
36 nursing homes using Bayesian
hierarchical modeling . . . . . . . . . 67--84
R. Lombardo and
G. Tessitore and
J. L. A. van Rijckevorsel Adaptive non-linear principal component
and surface analysis . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
Célestin C. Kokonendji and
Tristan Senga Kiessé and
Clarice G. B. Demétrio Appropriate kernel regression on a count
explanatory variable and applications 99--125
M. S. Aminzadeh Bayes estimation of $K$-variable
reliability for multiple exponential
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
Zhenmin Chen A note on analyzing data with undetected
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
Nairanjana Dasgupta $D$- and $A$-optimal allocations in a
multipoint grouped logit designed
experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--162
Hsin-Neng Hsieh and
Hsiu-Yuan Su and
Xuewen Lu A generalized inference on assessment of
similarity between dissolution profiles 163--190
W. J. Hurley and
Jack Brimberg and
D. L. James Testing the difference in population
means for a Bernoulli-exponential
mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--198
Anthony Cossari A note on the efficiency of Taguchi
signal-to-noise ratio . . . . . . . . . 199--206
Eric Hervet and
Mustapha Kardouchi and
Thu Pham-Gia and
Francis Niyomwungere Eye recognition using a statistical
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--221
José Igor Morlanes and
Antti Rasila and
Tommi Sottinen Empirical evidence on arbitrage by
changing the stock exchange . . . . . . 223--233
Gianni Betti and
Vijay Verma Fuzzy measures of the incidence of
relative poverty and deprivation: a
longitudinal and comparative perspective 235--273
Mehdi Kiani and
John Panaretos and
Stelios Psarakis Extensions to the strategy of the
steepest ascent for response surface
methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Yue-Xian Lin A rocket discarding algorithm for the
valuation of Asian reset options . . . . 19--39
Sun-Ah Han Recommendation of child education
contents in the mobile Internet . . . . 41--48
Salvatore Ingrassia and
Isabella Morlini Computational studies with equivalent
degrees of freedoms in neural networks 49--81
K. Thiagarajah Forecasts of volatility models: fuzzy
estimation approach . . . . . . . . . . 83--94
Bruce Chaderjian and
Morteza Ebneshahrashoob and
Tangan Gao A numerical algorithm for distributions
of soonest waiting time problems in
Markov dependent trials . . . . . . . . 95--109
May Barghout An exponentiated Weibull software
reliability model . . . . . . . . . . . 111--130
Aránzazu De Juan and
Antonio S. M. Arroyo An inverted beta approximation to a MPI
unit root test . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--164
Dobrin Marchev and
James P. Hobert Exact sampling from the Student's $t$
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--179
Wai Kong Yuen and
Mei Ling Huang A weighted bivariate density estimation
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--191
Joy Chioma Nwabueze Pattern of exchange rate movement of
seven underdeveloped countries . . . . . 193--204
Luis A. Gil-Alana Testing of $ I(d) $ statistical models
with non-parametric disturbances . . . . 205--223
Kuldeep Kumar and
Gulasekaran Rajaguru and
Samir Shrivastava Modelling the glitter in gold . . . . . 225--239
Md. Enamul Kabir and
Shahjahan Khan Estimation of univariate normal mean
using $p$-value . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--256
Francisco Louzada-Neto and
Juliana Cobre A multiple time scale survival model . . 1--16
Yan D. Zhao and
Dewi Rahardja and
Xian-Jin Xie Particle filter for target tracking and
applications to bearing-angle problems 17--30
May Barghout A non-parametric NHPP software
reliability model . . . . . . . . . . . 31--47
Manlika Tanusit A comparative study of parameter
inference methods for Poisson
distribution: small sample sizes . . . . 49--55
Xian-Jin Xie and
Aihua Bian A SAS package for evaluating logistic
and proportional odds model fit . . . . 57--64
Bao-Cai Guo and
Li-Rong Sun The effect of the allocation of sampling
resources to the efficiency of $
\overline x $ control chart . . . . . . 65--76
Piergiorgio Argentero and
Paola Cerchiello and
Paolo Giudici Models for questionnaires data in injury
risk management . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100
Roland C. Deutsch and
John M. Grego and
Brian Habing and
Walter W. Piegorsch Maximum likelihood estimation with
binary-data regression models:
small-sample and large-sample features 101--116
Fernando A. Moala Bayesian analysis for the Weibull
parameters by using noninformative prior
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--143
Ayten Yi\ugiter and
Ceyhan \.Inal Test for a change point in Poisson
process with applications to the British
coal mining disasters and the air
traffic flow data set . . . . . . . . . 145--155
Faisal G. Khamis and
Muna F. Hanoon and
Saad G. Yaseen On a study of the relationship between
education and mortality using fully and
partially latent models . . . . . . . . 157--172
Junfeng Shang The bootstrap-based selection criteria:
an optimal choice for model selection in
linear regression . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
G. C. G. Abreu and
A. Pinheiro and
R. D. Drummond and
S. R. Camargo and
M. Menossi Some statistical properties of gene
expression clustering for array data . . 191--204
Carlos Aparecido Dos Santos and
Jorge Alberto Achcar A Bayesian analysis for bivariate
Weibull distributions derived from
copula functions in the presence of
covariates and censored data . . . . . . 1--25
Montip Tiensuwan and
Sukuman Sarikavanich Applications of Box--Jenkins models to
rainfall data of Chiang Mai province in
Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Benzion Boukai A simultaneous determination of the
optimal sample size and sampling
allocations from a stratified finite
population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59
Sri Wahyuningsih and
Sutawanir Darwis and
Agus Yodi Gunawan and
Asep Kurnia Permadi Time varying autoregressions for
hyperbolic decline curve . . . . . . . . 61--70
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and
Lia Hanna Martins Morita and
Francisco Louzada-Neto Heteroscedastic von Bertalanffy growth
model and an application to a Kubbard
female chicken corporeal weight growth
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--81
Ibrahim B. Abdul-Moniem $ T L $-moments and $L$-moments
estimation for the Weibull distribution 83--99
C. C. Y. Dorea and
D. S. B. Martins Neto Convergence of non-homogeneous versions
of the MCEM and StEM algorithms . . . . 101--113
Mina Towhidi and
Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad An optimal method of estimation in
rotation sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 115--136
Marie M. Mahmoud Statistical logistic model for fitting
the relationship between students'
grades and their gender . . . . . . . . 137--155
Youhei Kawasaki Comparison of exact confidence intervals
for the difference between two
independent binomial proportions . . . . 157--170
Shaojun Wang and
Xiaoping Yang and
Peibiao Zhao Management risk analysis of real estate
companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--180
G. Saidi and
A. Aissani Bounds on moment generating functions of
HNBUE class and its variants . . . . . . 181--194
Changyong Feng and
Yan Ma and
Xin M. Tu and
Hongyue Wang A note on the concordance correlation
coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Mavis Pararai Underreporting in generalized Poisson
regression model with an application to
demand for medical care data . . . . . . 1--15
K. Farahmand and
B. Mcguinness Covariance of the number of real zeros
of a random algebraic polynomial . . . . 17--24
A. Intarasit and
P. Sattayatham A geometric Brownian motion model with
compound Poisson process and fractional
stochastic volatility . . . . . . . . . 25--47
María Jesús Carrera-Fernández and
Guillem Feixas-Viaplana and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos Effect of attenuation correction for the
reduction of bias in psychological
measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
Aceng Komarudin Mutaqin and
Sutawanir Darwis and
Dumaria Rulina Tampubolon and
Rianto Ahmadi Djojosugito Estimating mean and variance of sum of
correlated random variables using
empirical moments . . . . . . . . . . . 65--81
Mei Ling Huang and
Ke Zhao On estimation of the truncated Pareto
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--102
Massimo Pacella and
Antonio Grieco Production cost estimation by linear
regression analysis: a case study of
model selection in manufacturing . . . . 103--121
Sang Eun Lee and
C. J. Park and
Yonghee Kim-Park and
Key-Il Shin Stepwise estimation of cell
probabilities in 2 by 2 independent
contingency tables . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
Roshanak Alimohammadi A different approach to quantify
response variance in surveys . . . . . . 141--145
Taichi Furukatsu and
Daisuke Shimamoto and
Hiroto Hyakutake On comparison of univariate normal mean
and elements of multivariate normal mean 147--161
John J. Hsieh On the duality of the Poisson rate . . . 163--190
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Alsaleh and
Ahmad Mohamad Al-Kandary Forecasting exchange rate: a time series
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
Jorge Alberto Achcar and
Fernando Antônio Moala Use of MCMC methods to obtain Bayesian
inferences for the Birnbaum--Saunders
distribution in the presence of censored
data and covariates . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Chi-Chuan Yang and
Tsung-Shan Tsou Likelihood inferences for correlated
nominal data without knowing the
intra-cluster correlations . . . . . . . 29--40
Nuengruithai Sontimoon and
Montip Tiensuwan and
Simona Panunzi and
Wutthi Sumetchotimaytha Estimating recurrent time using
nonlinear mixed effects model in
patients with colorectal cancer . . . . 41--60
John J. Hsieh Asymptotic normal statistics for Poisson
and compound Poisson distributions . . . 61--77
Mohamed M. Aboubecrine On prediction of future $k$-record
values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--93
H. F. Coronel-Brizio and
A. I. Shawky and
R. A. Bakoban and
A. R. Hernández-Montoya EDF tests for the exponentiated gamma
distribution under type II censoring . . 95--104
Amr I. A. Elatraby Factors affecting the survival and
solvency of small industrial businesses
in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--126
Camila Pedrozo Rodrigues Furlan and
Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz and
Maria Aparecida de Paiva Franco Estimation of lag length in distributed
lag models: a comparative study . . . . 127--142
Kouji Yamamoto and
Nobuko Miyamoto and
Sadao Tomizawa Harmonic, geometric and arithmetic means
type uncertainty measures for two-way
contingency tables with nominal
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--159
M. D. Jiménez-Gamero and
M. V. Alba-Fernández On the use of the Kullback--Leibler
distance for the two-sample problem with
mixed data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
Wei Yang and
Fares Qeadan and
Daniel Cook and
Julie Smith-Gagen Heterogeneity of odds ratios over time
in cross-sectional trend studies: an
overweight-obesity example from a
nationwide population-based study . . . 175--190
Amr I. Abdelrahman Applying logistic regression model to
the second primary cancer data . . . . . 191--210
M. C. Juan Antonio González Mata and
M. C. Ramón Luévanos Rojas and
M. C. Cesar Uranga Sifuentes and
Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas Forecasting of human migration flow in
the Comarca Lagunera through the
application of Markov processes . . . . 1--26
Ashok Shanubhogue and
N. R. Jain Minimum variance unbiased estimation in
exponential distribution using
progressively type II censored data with
binomial removals . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39
Silvia Figini and
Paolo Giudici Statistical models for customer lifetime
value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--55
Jan Vrbik Moments of $ {\rm AR}(2) $-model
parameter estimators . . . . . . . . . . 57--72
Wei Liu A Bayesian approach to nonlinear
mixed-effects models with measurement
errors and missingness in covariates . . 73--87
Eduardo Gutiérrez González and
Olga Vladimirovna Panteleeva Control charts for generalized log-gamma
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--107
M. E. Ferrão and
P. Costa and
J. M. R. Gama Distribution-free item response model
based on marginal maximum likelihood
estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
Merlin Guy Nkodia Impact of the labour supply on an
economic system: an econometrical
approach on Congolese data . . . . . . . 127--160
Sutawanir Darwis and
Agus Yodi Gunawan and
Sri Wahyuningsih and
Nurtiti Sunusi and
Aceng Komarudin Mutaqin and
Nina Fitriyati Use of ensemble Kalman filter for
bounded reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . 161--173
K. Harishchandra and
K. M. Manjunatha Maximum likelihood and Bayesian
estimation in a software reliability
model with exponential fault correction
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--188
G. Ayyappan and
Gopal Sekar and
A. Muthu Ganapathi Subramanian M/M/1 retrial queueing system with
variable service rates under Erlang
$k$-type services . . . . . . . . . . . 189--208
Weihua Zhou and
Jin Wang A simulation study for some
graphic-based multivariate two sample
tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Gülesen Üstünda\ug \cSiray and
Sadullah Sakallio\uglu Inadmissibility of the Liu estimator to
the ordinary least squares estimator . . 21--32
Norton G. de Almeida A possible implication of the coherent
access hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38
Pejmon Sadri A simple method for assessing bivariate
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
Badih Ghattas and
Claude Deniau Multivariate unsupervised discretization
preserving mutual information . . . . . 49--64
Omar M. Eidous and
Abedel-Qader Al-Masri Fourth-order kernel method using line
transect sampling . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
Asma Graja Elabed and
Afif Masmoudi Bayesian analysis of stochastic
volatility models . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
Hajlaoui Mekki A graphical quality control procedure
using data depth . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
Zhao-Guo Chen and
Ka Ho Wu Benchmarking using working error-models 113--148
Jiantian Wang Characterization of distributions
through hazard functions and reversed
hazard functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
Jorge A. Achcar and
Henrique C. Zozolotto and
Eliane R. Rodrigues and
Paulo H. Nascimento Saldiva Two multivariate stochastic volatility
models applied to air pollution data
from São Paulo, Brazil . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Arthur L. Dryver Focusing on the lower scoring data in
order to improve credit scoring model
selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--41
Li Rong Sun A new chart for defecting asymmetric
loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--53
Nan Wang and
Chun-Xiao Zhang and
You Gao Research on symmetric engines parameters
difference in aero-engine condition
monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
Dhanuja Kasturiratna and
Truc T. Nguyen and
Arjun K. Gupta Characterization of $k$-variate normal
distribution with covariance structure,
$ \sigma^2 \Sigma_0$ and EDF
goodness-of-fit tests . . . . . . . . . 67--88
K. Farahmand and
Jianliang Gao Exceedance measure of amplified and
de-amplified classes of algebraic
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
Eid M. Al-Eid An alternative method for optimizing
response in general linear models . . . 101--108
Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas and
Facundo Cortés Martinez and
Cesar Uranga Sifuentes and
Ramon Luévanos Rojas and
Ma Enriqueta Luévanos Soto Vibrations in systems of pipes with
different movements in the supports,
considering the deformations by sharp 109--132
Johan Fellman Discontinuous transfer policies with a
given Lorenz curve . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
Baocai Guo Variable sample size $ \overline X $
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
Narges Abbasi and
Amrolah Jafari and
Iman Makhodom Effect of parameters of skew
normal-normal model on asymptotic
distribution of sample variance . . . . 153--157
Vasileios Pappas and
Konstantinos Adamidis and
Sotirios Loukas A three-parameter lifetime distribution 159--167
Yan Bai and
Gareth O. Roberts and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal On the containment condition for
adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo
algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--54
Adriano K. Suzuki and
Francisco Louzada and
Vicente G. Cancho and
Gladys D. C. Barriga The FGM bivariate lifetime copula model:
a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . 55--76
Gabriela Beganu Optimal estimable parametric functions
in a multivariate mixed linear model . . 77--83
Dieter Rasch Determining the size of experiments for
ANOVA models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--104
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Hala Abou Sena and
Muhamed Wael Farouq and
Abdel Badeeh Mohamed Salem Decision support system for the
classification of breast cancer
diagnosis using ROC . . . . . . . . . . 105--124
Carlo Grillenzoni Adaptive methods for financial decisions 125--139
M. Li and
M. Predescu Parameter estimation in a model of the
labor market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--158
Soner Yi\vgit and
Mehmet Mende\cs and
Hamìt Mìrtagìo\uglu Type I error rates and test power for
some outlier detecting tests . . . . . . 159--167
Mohammad Ahmad Alsaleh and
Ahmad Mohamad Al-Kandary and
Wafaa Abdullah Al-Kharief A time series analysis of Kuwait stock
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
F. Carvalho and
R. Covas and
J. T. Mexia Manipulating light-models built through
covering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24
Cristiane Rodrigues and
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Clarice G. B. Demétrio and
Edwin M. M. Ortega The Weibull negative binomial
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--55
Samer A. Kharroubi and
Alan Brennan A novel formulation for approximation
Bayesian computation based on signed
roots of log-density ratios . . . . . . 57--76
Mahdi Teimouri and
Arjun K. Gupta On a bivariate Weibull distribution . . 77--106
Estela M. P. Bereta and
Francisco Louzada and
Maria A. P. Franco The Poisson--Weibull distribution . . . 107--118
Fathali Firoozi and
Donald Lien and
Saeid Mahdavi and
Lynda De La Vina A linear model test of sufficiency for
non-orthogonality of matrices . . . . . 119--127
Marcel De T. Vieira and
Ronaldo R. Bastos and
Augusto C. Souza and
Henrique S. Hippert On the use of exploratory and
confirmatory longitudinal data analysis
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--156
Sumaia A. Latif and
Pedro A. Morettin Nonparametric estimation of Sibuya's
measure of local dependence for time
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Maie M. Kamel Use of Pareto charts and principle
component analysis to determine the main
reasons for train accidents in Egypt . . 29--41
Almutairi Alya O. and
Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah Saddlepoint approximation for two sample
linear rank tests . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
Yong Mun Issues of controlling family-wise type-I
error rate (FWER) when simultaneously
evaluating non-inferiority and
superiority using sequence testing
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
Vinicius F. Calsavara and
Vera L. D. Tomazella and
José C. Fogo Family generalized modified Weibull for
analyzing long-term survival data . . . 59--76
P. G. Lovaglio and
S. Verzillo and
M. Mezzanzanica Estimation of educational returns using
university and labour market
administrative archives . . . . . . . . 77--105
Mostefa El Bahi Asymptotic normality of the
nonparametric conditional quantile under
censorship for dependent functional data 107--134
Medhat M. A. Abdelaal and
Essam Fawzy Aziz Using data mining to evaluate the
foreign investment efficiency in Egypt 135--152
George Stoica and
Michael T. Bradley A priori action-decision models:
technical results . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Kazumasa Oida Enhanced variance-based suspended stream
detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--33
Nazif Çal\i \cs and
Ayça Hatice Türkan and
Murat Eri\cso\uglu and
Ülkü Eri\cso\uglu and
Hamza Erol EM algorithm for the mixtures of the
Marshall--Olkin bivariate Weibull
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48
N. Josephy and
M. Predescu and
S. Woolford Parameter estimation in a system of
stochastic difference equations . . . . 49--66
Maribel Peró-Cebollero and
Juan Delgado Sánchez-Mateos and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos Comparison of confidence intervals based
on the median as a robust alternative to
the classic hypotheses test . . . . . . 67--82
Tarald O. Kvålseth The lambda distribution and its
applications to categorical summary
measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--106
Valentina Sinaj and
Arjan Tushaj Analysis problems and creating forecast
models for CPI in Albania . . . . . . . 107--128
Jan Vrbik Edgeworth approximation of confidence
regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Sangeeta Arora and
Kalpana K. Mahajan and
Pooja Bansal Absolute partial mean curve: a new curve
of inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--156
H. F. Coronel-Brizio and
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and
M. E. Rodríguez-Achach A correlation test for bivariate
normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162
Jaya Bishwal Financial extremes: a short review . . . 1--14
Chang C. Y. Dorea and
Jaques S. Lopes and
Ary V. Medino AIC, BIC and EDC criteria for higher
order Markov chain with denumerable
state space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
I. C. Kipchirchir On ultimate extinction probabilities and
mean behaviour of spatial patterns . . . 31--45
Suparat Niwitpong and
Sanoe Koonprasert and
Sa-aat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for the ratio of
normal means with a known coefficient of
variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
Sun Ah Han Difference of father's role playing,
home environment stimulation, and
child's self-regulation between
father-children family and normal family 63--71
Jiexiang Li Estimation of the parameters of Weibull
distribution when samples are doubly
censored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81
Natalia Jaría-Chacón and
Pilar Aparicio-Chueca and
Xavier M. Triadó-Ivern and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos A study of public spending on higher
education institutions in Europe in the
framework of the Bologna process using
statistical fitting with spatial
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--102
George Stoica A self-normalized weak law of large
numbers for exchangeable sequences . . . 103--108
T. O. Olatayo and
A. I. Oredein and
A. A. Akomolafe Residual bootstrap method: an approach
to model validation . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
Jelloul Allal and
Mohammed Benmoumen Parameter estimation for $ {\rm
GARCH}(1, 1) $ models based on Kalman
filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--130
Arnulfo Luévanos Rojas and
Alberto Diosdado Salazar and
Facundo Cortés Martinez and
Ramón Luévanos Rojas and
Armando Cesar Uranga Sifuentes Study of two models for a continuous
beam reinforced concrete for three
different sections . . . . . . . . . . . 131--151
Landolsi Monia and
Ben Rejeb Jaleleddine ARIMA forecasting of energy consumption
in Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164
El-Houssainy Abd Elbar Rady and
Ahmed H. Youssef and
Tareq Abdul-Aziz Al-Doub A Monte Carlo simulation study for (GLS)
and (GMM) estimation . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Werner Hurlimann On the CVaR measure of skew-symmetric
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39
Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim Confidence interval estimation for the
ratio of means of two independent
lognormal distributions with
applications to health economics . . . . 41--62
I. B. Abdul-Moniem and
H. F. Abdel-Hameed and
Y. M. Abo Essa Estimation in linear exponential
distribution using different methods . . 63--77
Thelma Safadi and
Pedro A. Morettin A wavelet analysis to compare
environmental time series . . . . . . . 79--96
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy A study of the effect of worldwide
governance and corruption indicators on
the human development index using
spatial regression analysis . . . . . . 97--112
U. Verma and
H. P. Piepho and
M. H. Kalubarme and
M. Goyal Development of agrometeorological and
spectral wheat yield models using
various statistical procedures in
Haryana State (India) . . . . . . . . . 113--136
Sumith Gunasekera Generalized inferences for the common
shape parameter of several Pareto
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--152
Jiexiang Li Estimation of parameters of Rayleigh
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Howraa Al-Mousawi and
Hassan Elsalloukh and
Jose H. Guardiola and
Thomas McMillan The multivariate epsilon-skew Laplace
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--26
Anderson C. O. Motta and
Luiz K. Hotta Influence in stochastic volatility
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--45
Charles K. Mutai and
Joseph K. Koske and
John M. Mutiso Construction of a four dimensional third
order rotatable design through balanced
incomplete block designs . . . . . . . . 47--53
Shatha A. Alahmadi and
Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah Saddlepoint approximations for linear
combination and generalization of
normal-Laplace distribution . . . . . . 55--64
Hua Ding and
Xuewen Lu and
Lingxue Pan A statistical study on the factors
influencing CSR disclosure of listed
companies in China . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
Changyong Feng and
Hongyue Wang and
Xin M. Tu A unified definition of conditional
expectation and its applications in
survival analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95
Justin R. Chimka and
Jia Zhou Error probabilities for
gamma-distributed individual
measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
Ashok Sanubhogue and
A. K. Jiheel Bayes pre-test estimation of mean of
exponential distribution under
asymmetric loss function using
progressive type II censored sample . . 109--130
Arunendu Chatterjee Detection of change points: a survey of
methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--165
U. Verma and
H. P. Piepho and
J. O. Ogutu and
M. H. Kalubarme and
M. Goyal Multi-level mixed modelling for
weather--crop-yield relationships on
agro-climatic zone basis in Haryana
(Northern India) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
Patrícia Borchardt Santos and
Dione Maria Valenca Accelerated failure time models with
random effects to estimate operation
time of oil wells . . . . . . . . . . . 23--44
Sutawanir Darwis and
Agus Yodi Gunawan and
Asep K. Permadi and
Nina Fitriyati Reserve estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
Ahmed H. Youssef and
Nada Ali-Mohammed Muqaibal Determinants of foreign direct
investment inflows of Gulf Cooperation
Council: panel gravity model approach 55--75
Matthew A. Turner and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and
Jian Chen and
Chunyan Hao Adaptation to climate change: evidence
from 18th and 19th century Iceland . . . 77--108
Bayo H. Lawal Measure of departure from symmetry model
for square contingency tables . . . . . 109--121
Jangsik Cho and
Yong S. Joe Bayesian independent testing in a
bivariate Weibull model . . . . . . . . 123--131
Seppo Laaksonen A new visualization for uncertainty
intervals with survey examples . . . . . 133--140
Ali Akbar Rahimzadeh Sani and
Hamid Reza Mostafaei and
Mahdiyeh Ghohyeei Difference between sample median and
population median with odd sample sizes 141--147
Asanao Shimokawa and
Etsuo Miyaoka Application of genetic algorithm for
classification of medical images . . . . 1--31
Amr I. A. Elatraby and
Badrya M. M. Halaby Technical efficiency and credit risk
assessment for commercial banks under
Basel II accord . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--61
Nader Alber and
Essam Fawzy Aziz Forecasting of customers' retention in
terms of merger and acquisition
processes of Egyptian banks using panel
data techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
May Barghout A new non-parametric non-homogeneous
Poisson process software reliability
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99
Hossein Jabbari Khamnei and
Ali Abolhasani and
Parvin Fathipour Reliability for six parameter
generalized Burr-type XII distribution
with transformation method . . . . . . . 101--110
Anna Maria Altavilla and
Angelo Mazza On the analysis of immigrant settlement
patterns using quadrat counts. The case
of the city of Catania (Italy) . . . . . 111--123
Xiangke Li and
Dejun Xie A behavior finance approach for
understanding prepayment propensity of
mortgage loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Marco Tolotti A linear filtering approach for
incomplete accounting information models 135--151
S. Muzzioli Put-call parity and options' forecasting
power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
D. Grancher and
A. Bar-Hen and
R. Paris and
F. Lavigne and
D. Brunstein Spatial interpolation of circular data:
application to Tsunami of December 2004 19--29
J. K. Koske and
J. M. Mutiso and
I. K. Tum Construction of a practical optimum
second order rotatable design in three
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43
Brian P. Barthel and
Mezbahur Rahman Comparing contingency table tests in
logistic regression using bootstrap
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--75
M. Gerolimetto and
C. Pizzi and
I. Procidano A procedure to detect hidden
cointegration with the sieve bootstrap 77--92
Soufiane Gasmi Statistical inference of an imperfect
maintenance model . . . . . . . . . . . 93--120
Amr I. A. Elatraby and
Wahid A. M. Shehata Using data envelopment analysis and
discriminant analysis to evaluate the
technical efficiency of private sector
hospitals in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
J. S. Sales and
N. G. de Almeida The generalized $Q$ Mandel's parameter
cannot reveal the nonclassicality of the
squeezed coherent states . . . . . . . . 135--149
H. F. Coronel-Brizio and
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and
M. E. Rodríguez-Achach A result on the asymptotic eigenvectors
of covariance matrices of order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155
Atef Badr and
Aristides G. Karlaftis Duration model estimation for pavement
rehabilitation and service life . . . . 1--19
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and
Esther Subir\`a-Lobera and
José María Vilas-Aventín A structural model to assess the factors
that influence successful brand
migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--42
Xin Yang The data-based choice of bandwidth for
kernel quantile estimator of VaR . . . . 43--54
Hend A. Auda and
Essam A. Ahmed and
Mahmoud M. Sadek Re-sampling techniques in multilevel
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 55--76
Willem Albers \em MIXMAX charts . . . . . . . . . . . 77--101
H. Altan Çabuk and
Fikri Akdeniz An application of generalized maximum
entropy and some biased estimation
methods for the Almon distributed lag
model: bootstrap efficiency . . . . . . 103--124
Claudio Giovanni Borroni Extended proof of some results
concerning the finite null distribution
of a rank correlation measure . . . . . 125--152
Jose Mari Eguzkitza Arrizabalaga A practical approach for estimating
demand in periodicals with many
retailers and infrequent stockouts . . . 1--13
Félix Almendra-Arao and
José Juan Castro-Alva and
Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes Convergence of test sizes for the
Blackwelder's non-inferiority test . . . 15--31
Jan Vrbik Accurate confidence regions based on
MLEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
Amr I. A. Elatraby and
Dina H. Abdel-Hady and
Abeer R. Azazy Hassan A proposed statistical model to study
the factors affecting the recurrence of
an individual's stroke by myocardial
infarction occurrence with application
in Ain Shams University hospitals . . . 57--81
Adam L. Pintar and
Christine M. Anderson-Cook and
Huaiqing Wu Prediction-based model selection for
Bayesian multiple regression models . . 83--117
Nasr Ibrahim Rashwan A length-biased version of the
generalized gamma distribution . . . . . 119--137
Kouji Yamamoto and
Kazuho Masumura and
Sadao Tomizawa Generalized measures on marginal
symmetry for nominal square contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149
Nina Fitriyati and
Sutawanir Darwis and
Agus Yodi Gunawan and
Asep Kurnia Permadi Exploring EnKF convergence for linear
dynamical system . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--162
Mei Ling Huang and
Wai Kong Yuen and
Miao Zhang Efficient methods on confidence
intervals for prediction intervals . . . 1--21
S. Woolford and
N. Josephy A note on the asymptotic behavior of a
nonlinear system of stochastic
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
Ahmed F. Attia and
Essam A. Ahmed and
Eman A. El-Dessouky Hybrid warranty cost models for
repairable products based on
log-logistic lifetime distribution . . . 37--53
S. Udayabaskaran and
R. Murthy and
J. Viswanath The problem of optimal harvesting in a
stochastically branching population . . 55--62
Nairanjana Dasgupta and
Yibing Chen and
Ananth Kalyanaraman and
Sayed Daoud Comparison of clustering algorithms: an
example with proteomic data . . . . . . 63--81
Shimin Zheng and
Chunming Zhang and
Jeff Knisley Stochastic representations of the matrix
variate skew elliptically contoured
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--98
G. Gaines and
F. Ruymgaart A theoretical note on the simulation of
Brownian motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
Hiroyuki Kurakami and
Akihiro Fujimura and
Sadao Tomizawa Incomplete diagonals-parameter symmetry
model for ordered square contingency
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--113
Essam A. Ahmed and
Walid M. El-Badawy Generalized methods of system
reliability estimation based on
estimated component reliability . . . . 115--136
Susanna Levantesi Solvency capital requirements for
longevity risk under different
stochastic mortality models . . . . . . 137--160
Jiantian Wang A note on the relationships between
Spearman's $ \rho $ and Kendall's $ \tau
$ under bivariate homogeneous shock
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Gabriel Kissita and
Léonard Niere and
Roger Armand Makany and
Dominique Mizere Canonical correlation analysis between
two vertical multi-block tables and
applications to qualitative variables 11--38
Ghadban Khalaf The helpful ridge regression estimator 39--48
Robert J. Budzy\'nski and
Witold Kondracki and
Andrzej Królak On the geometry of the parameter space
reduction with application to
gravitational wave data analysis . . . . 49--63
Joanne Thandrayen and
Yan Wang A latent class approach with covariates
and local dependence in
capture-recapture models . . . . . . . . 65--84
Ali Alkenani and
Keming Yu Sparse MAVE with oracle penalties . . . 85--105
Manoel Wallace A. Ramos and
Pedro Rafael D. Marinho and
Ronaldo V. da Silva and
Gauss M. Cordeiro The exponentiated Lomax Poisson
distribution with an application to
lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--135
Rong Wei and
Balgobin Nandram and
Dilli Bhatta A Bayesian analysis of US mortality
curves for race-sex domains by small
area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--165
Masato Fujita Estimation of navigation performance and
offset by the EM algorithm and the
variational Bayesian methods . . . . . . 1--27
Junvie Pailden and
Hanfeng Chen Empirical likelihood ratio test for
difference of the means of zero-inflated
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--55
Brian W. Sloboda Testing the neoclassical theories of
labor demand: an application to the time
series of the United States . . . . . . 57--73
Bernard Colin and
Ernest Monga An empirical test of independence
between random vectors . . . . . . . . . 75--110
G. Ayyappan and
K. Sathiya Batch arrival queue with three stages of
service having server vacations and
service interruptions . . . . . . . . . 111--126
Ana Percontini and
Gauss M. Cordeiro and
Marcelo Bourguignon The $G$-negative binomial family:
general properties and applications . . 127--160
Jan Vrbik Errata and addendum to ``Accurate
confidence regions based on MLEs''
[MR3060565] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--163
Maojun Zhang and
Xueni Zhao and
Jiangxia Nan The model for CDS pricing based on the
Gaussian Copula method . . . . . . . . . 1--11
Shimin Zheng and
Jeff Knisley and
Chunming Zhang Moments of matrix variate skew
elliptically contoured distributions . . 13--27
Christopher H. Morrell and
Veena Shetty and
Terry Phillips and
Thiruma V. Arumugam and
Mark P. Mattson and
Ruiqian Wan Testing the product of slopes in related
regressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Muhamed Wael Farouq Abdelazim and
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy and
Mona Mahmoud Mohamed Ebada and
Hisham Mohamed Abdelaziz Saad and
Rashad Raouf Thabet Wahba Parametric and non-parametric
statistical techniques to investigate
fisheries data in Lake Nasser Egypt . . 47--73
Jian Yin and
Lixin Tian The impact of foreign direct investment
on economic growth in China . . . . . . 75--81
Livia Dancelli and
Marica Manisera and
Marika Vezzoli On Pinto da Costa and Soares' and other
weighted rank correlation measures
deriving from the Spearman's rho . . . . 83--104
Patrick Marsh Saddlepoint approximations for the
estimator on a lagged dependent variable 105--118
Azar Khosravani and
Constantin Rasinariu $n$-digit Benford distributed random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
Rania Ahmed Hamed Mohamed A comparison between the models
ARIMA/GARCH and artificial neural
networks in modeling financial returns
to the Arab Republic of Egypt market
securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--150
David Sotres-Ramos and
Yoni Castillo-Tzec and
Félix Almendra-Arao Adjusting the Laster--Johnson--Kotler
non-inferiority test for comparing two
proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
Lamine Konaté On LAN for parametrized continuous
signals in non-homogeneous diffusion . . 1--12
I. C. Kipchirchir Comparative analysis of dispersion
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--35
Medhat M. A. Abdelaal and
Moustafa Galal Moustafa and
Dalia Mohamed Samy Aglan Hybrid model of MARIMA and ANNBP for
forecasting sales tax in Egypt . . . . . 37--71
Mahmoud M. Alderiny Bootstrap determination of the
co-integration rank with unknown lag
order in VAR model: application on
Egypt's imports from the main crops . . 73--94
Changwon Yoo and
Erik M. Brilz Efficient and scalable Bayesian
statistical method for identifying
causal relationships from intervention
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--122
Kelly Bodwin and
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and
Albert H. Yoon A statistical approach to judicial
authorship: a case study of Judge
Easterbrook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--148
Haruhisa Nishino and
Kazuhiko Kakamu Bayesian Whittle estimation of ARFIMA
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--170
M. Li and
M. Predescu A note on an unemployment model dynamics
and estimation of parameters . . . . . . 171--186
Kengo Ueda and
Hiroto Hyakutake Note on estimating parameters in
heterogeneous random effects models for
two sample problem . . . . . . . . . . . 187--193
Amr Ibrahim Abdelrahman Elatraby and
Ahmed Fathy Abdelaal Elwaqdy Suggested statistical model for
describing the fluctuations in the
conditional variation with application
on the general index of the Egyptian
capital market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
Jan Vrbik Asymptotic expansion of sampling
distribution of an MLE to $ 1 / n $
accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
Osama H. Mahmoud and
Eman A. El-Dessouky Estimating the number excess of loss
claims using the
exponentiated-exponential distribution 51--69
Yohei Kawasaki A new confidence interval for the
difference between two independent
binomial proportions . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Val Andrei Fajardo and
Mei Ling Huang A least square method on confidence
regions for high quantile of heavy
tailed distributions . . . . . . . . . . 81--111
Wan-Yi Chiu The impact of investor's view on hedging
effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
Saieed F. Ateya and
Mohamed M. Rizk Prediction under bivariate generalized
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 129--147
Rania Ahmed Hamed Mohamed Classification of the companies listed
on the Egyptian stock using SOM neural
network, $K$-means and hierarchical
clustering methods . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159
A. Shanubhogue and
D. P. Raykundaliya A test for main effects when
observations are randomly right censored 1--23
U. Verma and
H. P. Piepho and
M. Goyal and
A. Goyal and
P. Verma Impact of climatic variables on
sugarcane yield prediction in Haryana
(India) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--35
El-Housseiny A. Rady and
Dalia Ziedan Estimation of population total using
nonparametric regression models . . . . 37--59
Kasahun Takele Geneti and
Teshome Kebede Deressa Correlates of under five child mortality
in Ethiopia: a logistic regression
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--79
Jan Vrbik Improving accuracy of $ \chi^2 $ test of
independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Mezbahur Rahman and
Faysal Ibne Satter and
Han Wu Fixed regressors in bootstrap regression 95--108
Yorghos Tripodis and
Nagaraj K. Neerchal Estimation of missing values in linear
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--123
Johan Fellman The properties of a class of tax
policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--148
M. S. Aminzadeh A surveillance scheme for reliability
growth of repairable systems and
software based on NHPP . . . . . . . . . 149--160
Khyam Paneru and
Hanfeng Chen Regression analysis under complex
probability sampling designs in presence
of many zero-value responses . . . . . . 1--29
Ying Ji and
Tienan Wang and
Yijun Li and
Yong Zhou A new smoothing nonmonotone trust region
method for solving nonlinear
complementarity problems . . . . . . . . 31--60
Jing Xia and
Michelle Yongmei Wang Particle filtering with sequential
parameter learning for nonlinear bold
fMRI signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74
Kouji Yamamoto and
Kanau Kawasaki and
Sadao Tomizawa Marginal point-symmetry measure for
multi-way contingency tables . . . . . . 75--91
Daiki Maki A comparison of linearity tests based on
wild bootstrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--107
Tsung-Shan Tsou and
Wei-Cheng Hsiao Robust regression modeling via
parametric likelihoods: an alternative
to using the skew $t$ distribution and
several rank-based methods . . . . . . . 109--132
Magda M. M. Haggag Combining of dimension reduction
regression methods . . . . . . . . . . . 133--156
A. H. Wigena and
A. Djuraidah and
I. W. Mangku Ensemble two return levels of
generalized Pareto and modified
Champernowne distributions using linear
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167
Seppo Laaksonen Introduction to sampling design data
file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--179
H. F. Coronel-Brizio and
A. R. Hernandez-Montoya A result concerning quadratic forms in
functions of order statistics . . . . . 1--9
Davinder Kumar Garg and
Gurinder Pal Singh Construction of four associate class
PBIB designs using pairing in triplets
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
Ka Ho Wu and
Zhao-Guo Chen and
Wensheng Wang A robust and practical method of unit
root tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--67
Xiaoyin Wang and
Dongqing Yao Bayesian inference of predictor's
relative importance in multiple
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--96
Rada Somkhuean and
Suparat Niwitpong and
Sa-aat Niwitpong On upper bound of the generalized
$p$-value for the mean of lognormal
distribution when the coefficient of
variation is known . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107
K. V. Abdul Rasheed and
M. Manoharan Markovian queueing system with self
regulatory servers . . . . . . . . . . . 109--128
Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and
Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and
Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa New estimators of $ {\rm AR}(2) $ panel
data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--136
Zailong Wang Longitudinal data analysis strategies
--- an application of mixed model to
post-transplant serum
\booktitlecreatinine data . . . . . . . 137--165
Arunee Wongkhao and
Sa-aat Niwitpong and
Suparat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for the inverse of
mean in a normal distribution with a
known coefficient of variation . . . . . 1--14
Patrick Marsh Approximation for the conditional
distribution of the MLE with application
to autoregression . . . . . . . . . . . 15--32
Ch. Lakshmi Sujatha and
M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao A new non parametric method of
estimation of prediction limits and
comparison of its performance with semi
parametric method . . . . . . . . . . . 33--46
Omar M. Bdair and
Raed R. Abu Awwad Aging and characterization properties of
$k$ th records under mean past lifetime
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
Kim Samejima M. Lopes Partial directed coherence applications
on EEG data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--82
M. A. Islam and
R. I. Chowdhury and
S. Bae and
K. P. Singh Assessing the association in repeated
measures of depression . . . . . . . . . 83--93
J. T. Guemmegne and
J-J Kengwoung-Keumo and
M. A. Tabatabai and
K. P. Singh Modeling the dynamics of the U.S.
healthcare expenditure using a
hyperbolastic function . . . . . . . . . 95--117
Shiang-Jen Wu Stochastic modeling of wave equation
with uncertainties in initial and
boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 119--156
David Sotres-Ramos How randomization validates the
significance levels of the Fisher exact
test for $ 2 \times 2 $ tables . . . . . 157--164
Samson Henry Dogo An adaptation of LAN method for
monitoring cumulative correlations . . . 1--20
David P. Chu and
Ali Reza Fotouhi A trivariate beta distribution and
related distances . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36
Nasr Rashwan and
Hanaa Salem A Bayesian method to estimate the
parameters of regression model . . . . . 37--52
Alyaa R. Zahran An rspca-type wealth index for telephone
surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
Dilcu B. Helvaci and
Saeed Maghsoodloo Renewal and availability functions . . . 65--89
Patrick Franco Alves and
Gustavo T. L. da Costa Measuring bivariate average treatment
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--105
Oscar Palmeros-Rojas and
José A. Villaseñor-Alva and
Francisco S. Tajonar-Sanabria Estimation of a change-point in the
Weibull regression model . . . . . . . . 107--118
Jan Ámos Ví\vsek Diagnostics of robust identification of
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--161
Silvia Maria Prado and
Francisco Louzada and
José Gilberto Rinaldi and
Marcio Luis Lanfredi Viola A distribution for service model . . . . 1--19
Preety Rattan and
Sangeeta Arora and
Kalpana K. Mahajan Some results on ordering of Lorenz and
related curves for power function
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--41
Serpil Akta\cs Analysis of cancer incidence data using
generalized linear model with nested
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
Arthur Yosef Some classical-new results on the
set-indexed Brownian motion . . . . . . 57--76
Jibo Wu and
Abdul Shakoor An almost unbiased Liu estimator in
linear regression model with measurement
error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85
Jirawan Jitthavech and
Vichit Lorchirachoonkul Estimators using weights based on
stratum statistics in stratified random
sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--116
Jiaorui Li and
Yuan Yao and
Li Zheng Comprehensive evaluation of operational
risks of Chinese public pension fund . . 117--132
T. K. Mak and
F. Nebebe A parametric approach for estimating
conditional probability distributions 133--143
Ali S. Gargoum Optimizing probability computations on
dynamic processes using graphical models 145--161
Sibnarayan Guria and
Sugata Sen Roy Diagnostics in log-linear models . . . . 163--176
Jiexiang Li Interval estimation for a lifetime
distribution with increasing failure
rate when samples are doubly censored 177--189
Mezbahur Rahman and
Mohammad Shaha Alam Patwary A note on unequal probability sampling
in bootstrap sampling . . . . . . . . . 191--200
Kamal Samy Selim Distribution and moments of the double
exponential sample range . . . . . . . . 201--217
Shengxi Wang and
Junfeng Shang Independence among random variables
between semi-martingales . . . . . . . . 219--239
Rashad M. El-Sagheer Estimation of the parameters of life for
distributions having power hazard
function based on progressively type-II
censored data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27
Nairanjana Dasgupta and
Ruojin Zhang and
Tory Schmidt Significance testing of alternate
bearing in `Granny Smith' apple . . . . 29--44
K. Abdollahnezhad and
F. Yaghmaei and
S. Mahmoudi Testing equality of the scale parameters
of Pareto distributions; two
computational approaches . . . . . . . . 45--57
Jan Vrbik Accurate confidence regions for
Markov-model parameters . . . . . . . . 59--74
Balgobin Nandram and
Dhiman Bhadra and
Yiwei Liu A Bayesian analysis of racial
differences in treatment among breast
cancer patients . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--104
Amr I. A. Elatraby and
Rashad R. T. Wahba Features selection using parametric and
non-parametric methods: tag SNPS
selection using GA-SVM and GA-KNN . . . 105--123
R. A. Robinson and
R. S. Gill Asymptotics and confidence estimation in
segmented regression models . . . . . . 125--151
Chuanhua Wei Empirical likelihood ratio test for
serial correlation in additive models 153--165
S. Mandal and
Y. Yang $ D_s $-Optimal designs in polynomial
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179
Rogério F. Porto and
Oscar E. Molina and
Gladys E. Salcedo A tv-ivar model for multivariate
irregular time series . . . . . . . . . 181--200
Jessica Kubrusly and
Hélio Lopes Constructive regression on implicit
regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--223
Ayman A. Mostafa Bayesian analysis technique for
generalized Cox's proportional hazards
model using bugs: applications in
medical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--36
Rieken S. Venema Geometric ergodicity of the normalized
perceptron algorithm for the
classification of non-separable Gaussian
input vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--55
Juliet Gratia D'Cunha and
K. Aruna Rao and
T. Mallikarjunappa Application of Bayesian inference for
the analysis of stock prices . . . . . . 57--78
Mohamed A. Ismail and
Essam A. Ahmed and
Howaida M. Ezz El-Din Identification of moving average models:
a Bayesian approach . . . . . . . . . . 79--96
Yosuke Inaba and
Etsuo Miyaoka Bootstrapping method for constructing
confidential intervals for estimated
parameters of the hidden Markov model 97--105
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Sally Hossam Eldin Ahmed Analysis of survival data by using
non-parametric methods . . . . . . . . . 107--117
Stéphane Bouka and
Sophie Dabo-Niang and
Guy Martial Nkiet Non-Parametric level set estimation for
spatial data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--158
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Hisham Abdel-Tawab Mahran Morsy The measurement of productivity growth
in Egyptian universities using DEA-based
Malmquist productivity index . . . . . . 159--181
Yohei Kawasaki and
Hiroshi Yamada Non-Inferiority test statistics for two
independent binomial proportions:
comparison of eight methods . . . . . . 183--196
Christopher H. Morrell and
Michael W. Kattan and
F. Roy MacKintosh and
Stephen Van Den Eeden and
Thomas B. Neville Estimating prostate cancer relative
survival and cancer-specific death . . . 197--223
Sutawanir Darwis and
Nusar Hajarisman and
Teti Sofia Yanti and
Mohammad Sobri and
Irfan Muharam Kalman filtering applied to engine fault
detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
Nasr Ibrahim Rashwan Estimation of the parameters of mixed
exponentiated Weibull and exponentiated
exponential from censored type I samples 1--18
R. A. Bakoban and
M. I. Abubaker Parameters estimation of the generalized
inverted Rayleigh distribution based on
progressive Type II censoring . . . . . 19--50
Taylan A. Ula Corrections for estimated XBAR control
charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63
Jeffrey Gory and
Omer Ozturk Analysis of the NHANES III data set
using ranked set and judgment
post-stratified samples . . . . . . . . 65--89
Jan Ámos Ví\vsek Representation of the least weighted
squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--144
Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and
Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and
Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa Weighted symmetric estimators of
autoregressive models . . . . . . . . . 145--152
Natalia Jaría-Chacón and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos A higher education expenditure
prediction model: evidence from European
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--174
Werner Hürlimann Angle correlation inequalities of De
Finetti type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
Amr Ibrahim Abdul Rahman and
Mohamed Alsayid Abdel Salam Abdel Rasoul Proposed statistical model for
identifying and studying the factors
affecting the occurrence of financial
failure case study: Egyptian Arab Real
Estate Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--210
Kamal Samy Selim Bounds on variance based on differences
of mass points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
Medhat Mohamed Ahmed Abdelaal and
Saeed Farouk Saber Mohamed Statistical model of Egyptian economic
growth prediction . . . . . . . . . . . 225--246
Shaul K. Bar-Lev and
Benzion Boukai Recycled estimation of population
pharmacokinetics models . . . . . . . . 247--263
Saleem Z. Ramadan An efficient method for global
optimization of black-box functions
using one-dimensional interpolation and
reduced design space . . . . . . . . . . 1--31
Albert Luguterah Odd generalized exponential Rayleigh
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--48
Amr I. A. Elatraby and
Hisham Mohamed Abdelaziz Saad Forecasting the exchange rate of the
Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar:
an empirical study . . . . . . . . . . . 49--67
Takuma Kurosawa and
Asanao Shimokawa and
Etsuo Miyaoka A note on using the maximum partial
likelihood estimator of transition model
for binary time series . . . . . . . . . 69--90
Yingmei Xu and
Diawara Daouda and
Kané Ladji An application of extreme value theory
in automobile insurance: a new approach
to the convex combination of two
variables thresholds minimizing the
variance of this combination . . . . . . 91--108
Kee-Hoon Kang An approach for bias reduction in
density estimation . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121
Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim Modeling the proportion of neonatal
mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
Essam Fawzy Aziz A suggested statistical model for
whether a small industrial business is
tripped or not in Great Cairo using
probit model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--156
W. M. Afify Adding a new parameter in flexible
Weibull distribution using
Marshall--Olkin model and its
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--167
Enas Gawdat Yehia The shqc criterion for order selection
in autoregressive models . . . . . . . . 169--183
Saleem Z. Ramadan A note on planning the simple
step-stress accelerated life test under
Bayesian method and Type-I right
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--204
Amal S. Hassan and
M. Elgarhy Kumaraswamy Weibull-generated family of
distributions with applications . . . . 205--239
Monchaya Chiangpradit and
Sa-aat Niwitpong Coverage probability of a prediction
interval for a seasonal $ {\rm AR}(1) $
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--255
W. M. Afify and
Ahmed Ramzy Modified goodness of fit tests for the
inverse flexible Weibull distribution 257--272
Suleman Nasiru and
Albert Luguterah and
Mohammed Muniru Iddrisu Generalized Erlang-truncated exponential
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--301
Jia Luo and
Junfeng Shang Exploratory data analysis on
unemployment rates in USA . . . . . . . 303--316
B. Farahani and
M. Khodabin and
R. Ezzati Numerical solution of stochastic
nonlinear Volterra integral equations by
a stochastic operational matrix based on
Haar wavelets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--336
Suparat Niwitpong and
Arunee Wongkhao Confidence intervals for the difference
between inverse of normal means . . . . 337--347
Ali A. Al-Shomrani Characterization and recurrence
relations of certain distributions of
$k$ th upper record values . . . . . . . 349--361
Jibo Wu A note on the difference-based almost
unbiased Liu estimator in partial linear
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368
Saeedeh Pourahmad and
Mahmood Kharrati-Kopaei and
Zahra Hosseini-Moghadam and
Sadat Nouri and
Mojgan Akbarzadeh Jahromi An optimal combination of several binary
markers based on Neyman--Pearson lemma:
with an application to
immunohistochemical markers for the
diagnosis of classical Hodgkin lymphoma 369--389
Aya Farag and
Ragaa Kassem and
Ramadan Hamed Mathematical programming model for
selecting generalized ridge regression
parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--409
Ahmed H. Youssef and
Ali H. Almarshadi and
Abdulqader H. Almusabi A simulation study for sure estimators
with an application in air navigation in
Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--428
Saowanit Sukparungsee and
Sophana Somran and
Yupaporn Areepong Exact expression of average run length
for two-sided exponential cusum
procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--444
Saleem Z. Ramadan Sampling target distributions based on
support alteration and discretization 445--471
Trijya Singh A method of moments approach to
parameter estimation in intrinsically
nonlinear regression models . . . . . . 1--20
J. M. Mutiso and
G. K. Kerich and
H. M. Ng'eno Construction of five level second order
rotatable designs using supplementary
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30
Andrea Lavalle and
Sergio Bramardi An algorithm based on generalized
Procrustes analysis to find the
consensus of several configurations of
individuals connected by common checks 31--48
Sa-aat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for the difference
between normal means with a known
coefficient of variation . . . . . . . . 49--65
Félix Almendra-Arao and
Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes and
José Juan Castro-Alva Adjusting nominal significance levels
and test sizes when using an asymptotic
non-inferiority test . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
Alya O. Al Mutairi Distribution of the order statistics of
the generalized power function . . . . . 87--104
Nipaporn Chutiman and
Monchaya Chiangpradit and
Sujitta Suraphee Ratio estimator in adaptive cluster
sampling based on ranked set . . . . . . 105--116
Abeer Hasan and
Wei Ning and
Arjun Gupta A new approach for skew $t$ distribution
with applications to environmental data 117--136
B. Bhargavarama Sarma and
B. Shobha Estimation in functional measurement
error models with compound symmetric
covariance structured equation errors 137--166
Mamdouh Abdel Alim Saad Mowafy and
Hanaa Hussein Ali Abou Alaela A statistical study to predict to
development index of information and
communication technology (ICT) in the
Arab countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--194
Ayubu Anapapa Okango and
Joseph Kipsigei Koske and
John Muindi Mutiso Optimization of germination conditions
of \bionameMelia volkensii by response
surface methodology . . . . . . . . . . 195--210
Melike Bahçecitapar and
Mehmet Uysal Statistical power/sample size analysis
for linear mixed effects models with $
{\rm MA}(1) $ and $ {\rm ARMA}(1, 1) $
autocorrelated errors in longitudinal
studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--229
Alya O. Al Mutairi and
Ameenah Alofi and
Mai Alsoubhi and
Sara Alradadi and
Huda Alblwi Saddle point approximation for the
random sum Poisson--Bernoulli model . . 231--243
Venkatesh B. Joshi and
Bhargavi Deshpande A new modification to the adaptive
Nadaraya--Watson kernel regression
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256
Ninghui Tan and
Jibo Wu On a restricted estimator in an
errors-in-variable model . . . . . . . . 257--265
Hajar Banikhademi and
Hasan Salehi Fathabadi A solution to the inverse minimum cut
problem in dynamic network flows . . . . 267--285
N. V. Chandrasekara and
M. A. Mammadov and
C. D. Tilakaratne Parameter estimation of multivariate
scaled t distribution: an application to
all share price index . . . . . . . . . 287--303
Amany M. Mousa and
Ahmed A. El-Sheikh and
Mahmoud A. Abdel-Fattah A gamma regression for bounded
continuous variables . . . . . . . . . . 305--326
A. M. Mousa and
S. M. El Sayed and
S. H. Abdel Latif A general delete-group jackknife
variance estimator for stratified
sampling survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--341
Julio César Martínez Sánchez and
David Sotres-Ramos and
Martha Elva Ramírez Guzmán Portfolio selection with conditional
covariance matrix and nonlinear
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
Han Wu and
Mezbahur Rahman and
Mohammad Shaha Alam Patwary A study of a generalized modified
Weibull model: an exponentiated Weibull
case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367
Yupaporn Areepong and
Saowanit Sukparungsee An explicit expression of average run
length of exponentially weighted moving
average control chart with $ {\rm
ARIMA}(p, d, q)(P, D, Q)_L $ models . . 369--385
Fajar Adi-Kusumo and
Gunardi and
Herni Utami and
Aluicius Irwan Endrayanto and
Mulyono Nitisapto and
Tony Agus Wijaya and
Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan and
Titus Christiawan Climate changes detection using Bayesian
change point methods and empirical
orthogonal function for improving the
traditional cropping calendar in Gunung
Kidul Regency of Indonesia . . . . . . . 387--398
Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly Nonparametric test for ordered variances 399--408
Trijya Singh Estimation of parameters of a
Weibull-type nonlinear regression model 409--416
Ilaria L. Amerise Iteratively reweighted constrained
quantile regressions . . . . . . . . . . 417--441
A. M. C. H. Attanayake and
D. D. M. Jayasundara and
T. S. G. Peiris An application of $5$-fold cross
validation on a binary logistic
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--451
Behzad Pirouz and
Esmaile Khorram A computational approach based on the
$e$-constraint method in multi-objective
optimization problems . . . . . . . . . 453--483
Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and
Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and
Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelwahab Estimation of $ {\rm AR}(1) $ models
with missing values . . . . . . . . . . 485--492
Afrah Al-Bossly A reliability study on some
chemotaxonomic profiles of the genus
\bionamePenicillium . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Yupaporn Areepong and
Saowanit Sukparungsee Explicit formulas of average run length
of cumulative sum control chart for
autoregressive integrated moving average
with exogenous variable model . . . . . 21--36
I. O. Ayodeji and
T. O. Obilade and
O. A. Adelodun and
K. O. Sofowora Canonical correlation analysis approach
for the geochemistry of a Nigerian crude
oil well . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--49
Muhammad Aslam and
Nasrullah Khan and
Osama H. Arif The EWMA moving average control chart
for exponential distribution using
multiple dependent state sampling . . . 51--71
R. Dayanian and
L. Navaei On special case of $r$-identification
problems of multiple hypotheses testing
for Markov chains . . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
L. Navaei and
R. Dayanian On some properties of a
pseudo-probability space . . . . . . . . 85--95
Abdalla Abdelghaly and
Essam Ahmed and
Rasha Ebaid and
Walid Elbadawy An extension of the Cuadras copula . . . 97--106
Parameshwar V. Pandit and
Savitha Kumari On testing against positive quadrant
dependence based on sub-sample order
statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
H. F. Coronel-Brizio and
A. R. Hernández-Montoya and
M. E. Rodríguez-Achach Tests of fit for the power-law
distribution and some applications to
the Mexican stock market index relative
changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
Mostafa Omidi and
Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh and
Ali Payan and
Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi Radial sensitivity analysis of left,
right, and overall returns to scale
using the virtual anti-ideal unit . . . 137--171
Yong Wang and
Juan Hu Fast computation of predictive scores
under cross-validation for multivariate
spatial models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
Sayed Mesheal El-Sayed and
Ahmed Amin El-Sheikh and
Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa and
Hadia Faried Mohamed Ahmed Azmy A closed form of biased $ {\rm AR}(1) $
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
Arthur Yosef and
Eli Shnaider On measuring the relative importance of
explanatory variables in a soft
regression method . . . . . . . . . . . 201--228
Said Jaouadi and
Ilhem Zorgui and
Slaheddine Trabelsi and
Rafik Ben Samida The predictors of students' satisfaction
in Jazan University: evidence from
partial least squares . . . . . . . . . 229--242
Muhammad Aslam and
Mansour Sattam Aldosari and
Muhammad Azam and
Chi-Hyuck Jun Attribute--variable resubmitted sampling
plan for controlling lot fraction
nonconforming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--259
Hassan Pouresmaeil and
Elyas Shivanian and
Esmaile Khorram and
Hassan Salehi Fathabadi An extended method using TOPSIS and
VIKOR for multiple attribute decision
making with multiple decision makers and
single valued neutrosophic numbers . . . 261--292
Rasha Ebaid and
Rasha Farghali and
Samah Abo-El-Hadid A mathematical programming approach for
liu-type estimator . . . . . . . . . . . 293--314
K. Harishchandra and
Balakrishna Software reliability model when a random
number of faults occurring at a time
with correction process . . . . . . . . 315--327
Vanesa Berlanga-Silvente and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and
Pilar Figuera-Gazo and
Ernest Pons-Fanals Salary scholarships as a factor
associated with improved academic
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--348
Suchismita Maiti and
Debashis Nandi and
Baisakhi Chakraborty Statistical modelling of log-compressed
Nakagami distributed ultrasound echo
envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--366
Afsana-Al-Sharmin and
M. Ataharul Islam Generalized Weibull linear models with
different link functions . . . . . . . . 367--384
Xiaowu Li and
Lin Wang and
Mingsheng Zhang and
Linke Hou and
Juan Liang On convolution of unimodal distribution
and multimodal distribution . . . . . . 385--395
Jan Vrbik Approximate distribution of sample
quantiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--410
Jan Vrbik General formulas for serial correlation,
variance and likelihood function
relating to $ {\rm AR}(k) $ models . . . 411--421
Rasha Ebaid and
Walid Elbadawy A new modification of the Cuadras copula 423--434
Maher Qumsiyeh and
Robert Deis and
Dalton Gannon Bootstrapping an autoregressive time
series model using SAS . . . . . . . . . 435--467
David Sotres-Ramos and
Yoni Castillo-Tzec The asymptotic distribution of the
Pearson chi-square statistic for the $ 2
\times 2 $ table . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--476
Abdul Basit and
Anam Riaz and
Zafar Iqbal and
Munir Ahmad On comparison of entropy measures for
weighted and truncated weighted
exponential distributions . . . . . . . 477--495
A. Amin Essam On record values of the power Lomax
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--515
Saman Hanif Shahbaz and
Saeed Al-Ghamdi and
Khushnoor Khan and
Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz Bayesian estimation for the parameters
of Poisson--Lomax distribution using
conditional and unconditional gamma
priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15
I. C. Kipchirchir Comparative analysis of the effect of
dispersion and competition on population
sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--38
Nihal Abd El Aty and
Mahmoud Rashwan and
Ramdan Hamed A goal programming approach for samples
overlap in stratified random sampling 39--57
Warisa Thangjai and
Suparat Niwitpong and
Sa-Aat Niwitpong On large sample confidence intervals for
the common inverse mean of several
normal populations . . . . . . . . . . . 59--84
S. K. Ashour and
D. R. Said and
M. A. Mostafa Log-Exponentiated Kumaraswamy power
series family of distributions . . . . . 85--129
Soroor Sadri and
Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh and
Naghi Shoja Inverse linear programming in cost
efficiency and network . . . . . . . . . 131--149
Suparat Niwitpong Generalized confidence intervals for
function of variances of lognormal
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163
Liaquat Ahmad and
Iqra Rafiq and
Mansour Sattam Aldosari and
Muhammad Aslam Mixed repetitive sampling plan using
EWMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186
Direk Bualuang and
Yupaporn Areepong and
Saowanit Sukparungsee Explicit expressions of average run
length of double moving average control
chart for ZIB models when the underlying
distribution is ratio of two Poisson
means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--204
Mamdouh Abdel Alim Saad Mowafy and
Hanaa Hussein Ali Abou Alela A statistical model to predict the food
gap of the wheat crop in Egypt . . . . . 205--230
Yang Shanchao and
Xiang Ping Strong consistency of robust
nonparametric kernel regression
estimation for $a$-mixing processes . . 231--244
Warisa Thangjai and
Sa-Aat Niwitpong and
Suparat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for the common mean
of several one-parameter exponential
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--260
Ali. S. Gargoum Some new properties of Hellinger
distance for validating approximations
in Bayesian analysis . . . . . . . . . . 261--276
C. Fernandes and
P. Ramos A method to minimize the sum of the
variances of the estimators of the
variance components in stair nested
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--282
Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd and
El Hameed El Misery The impact of female employment and the
third birth event in Egypt using
simultaneous hazard regression . . . . . 283--293
Diabaté Lassina and
Kané Ladji and
Diawara Daouda and
Diarra Diby A study of the bonus--malus system in
the case of the car insurance sector in
Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--307
Bol A. M. Atem and
George O. Orwa and
Levi N. Mbugua The odd Kumaraswamy inverse Weibull
distribution with application to
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--335
Lampang Saenchan Comparisons of interval estimators for
the linear function of variances under
non-normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--350
Félix Almendra-Arao and
David Sotres-Ramos Assessing test sizes for the
Farrington--Manning test . . . . . . . . 351--366
Hend Auda and
Hend Attia Comparative ARIMA models for
age-specific fertility rates . . . . . . 367--388
Jibo Wu Ridge-Type estimation in semiparametric
EV model with linear measurement error 389--395
Nasrin Borumandnia and
Hamid Alavi Majd and
Farid Zayeri and
Ahmad Reza Baghestani and
Mahmood Reza Gohari and
Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei and
Fariborz Faeghi Bayesian $3$-dimensional spatial
variable selection modeling of
voxel-specific HRFS for localization in
FMRI time series data . . . . . . . . . 397--426
Saeed Maghsoodloo and
Randy West and
Dilcu Barnes A statistical study on the variability
of aggregate characteristics of asphalt
mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--444
W. M. Afify Hybridization of distributions using
transmutation and proportional hazard
approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--468
A. S. Dabye and
L. Gueye and
M. A. Issaka On detection of epileptic seizure with
an approach based on power spectral
density with an AR model . . . . . . . . 1--31
Doan Van Dinh World crude oil prices impact on
consumer price index . . . . . . . . . . 33--54
Farzana Jahan and
Borhan Siddika and
Rafiqul I. Chowdhury and
M. Ataharul Islam A Poisson--Poisson model to analyze
congestion data . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--71
Fatemeh Keshavarz Gildeh and
Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and
Alireza Amirteimoori and
Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh Optimal utilization of resources in
organizations using data envelopment
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--95
Suganya Phantu and
Saowanit Sukparungsee and
Yupaporn Areepong Dma chart monitoring of the first
integer-valued autoregressive processes
of Poisson counts . . . . . . . . . . . 97--119
M. Rekkas and
O. Wong Transformations, means, and accurate
confidence intervals . . . . . . . . . . 121--144
Suleman Nasiru and
Peter N. Mwita and
Oscar Ngesa Exponentiated generalized half logistic
Burr X distribution . . . . . . . . . . 145--169
Maliheh Piri and
Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi and
Mohsen Rostamy-alkhalifeh and
Mohammad Hasan Behzadi The selection of projects within
constrained resources using stochastic
data envelopment analysis . . . . . . . 171--201
Song Jea Woo and
Kee-Hoon Kang On comparison of estimation methods in
quantile regression . . . . . . . . . . 203--213
M. Y. Hassan Joint modeling of correlated time
durations and their marks using a
Weibull--Poisson marked point process
mixture models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
Saowanit Sukparungsee and
Suganya Phantu and
Yupaporn Areepong Explicit formula of average run length
of moving average control chart for
Poisson $ {\rm INMA}(1) $ process . . . 235--250
Georgina Maria Tinungki The election of the best autoregressive
integrated moving average model to
forecasting rice production in Indonesia 251--265
Mona Mustafa El Biely Short and long-term prediction based on
complex statistics and artificial
intelligence techniques . . . . . . . . 267--280
Arwa M. Alshangiti and
Samah A. Alghamdi and
A. M. Abouammoh and
Asma H. Althagafi Estimation of $l$-geometric-discrete
Rayleigh model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--306
Mashail Al-Sobhi and
Saman H. Shahbaz and
Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz and
Bander Al-Zahrani The Gauss hypergeometric family of
distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326
T. K. Mak and
F. Nebebe Estimating nonlinear structural
relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--338
S. Yu. Karanina and
N. A. Kocheeva and
M. Yu. Belikova and
N. V. Baranovskiy Spatial and temporal distribution of
lightning discharges over Tomsk region
according to WWLLN data for 2010--2015 339--362
B. Benaid and
H. Bouzahir A statistical test of volatility
persistence in GARCH models and
application to stock exchange . . . . . 363--374
Tarek M. Omara Weight LAD and weight LAD ridge
estimator for seemingly unrelated
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 375--389
Thammarat Panityakul and
Ronnason Chinram Applied meta-analysis for teacher
research in southern border provinces of
Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--400
Kiyotaka Iki and
Sadao Tomizawa Measure of departure from symmetry using
cumulative probability for square
contingency tables with ordered
categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--412
S. Z. Taj and
S. M. Rizwan and
B. M. Alkali and
D. K. Harrison and
G. Taneja Reliability analysis of a $3$-unit
subsystem of a cable plant . . . . . . . 413--429
Hend A. Auda and
Mohamed A. Ismail and
Ali A. Rashed Wilcoxon rank based principal component
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--447
Nada Hafez and
Afaf El-Dash and
Nagwa Albehery Joint chance constrained programming
with dependent parameters . . . . . . . 1--12
Muhammad Nouman Qureshi and
Sadia Khalil and
Muhammad Hanif Joint influence of exponential ratio and
exponential product estimator for the
estimation clustered population mean in
adaptive cluster sampling . . . . . . . 13--28
Maribel Peró-Cebollero and
Joan Gu\`ardia-Olmos and
Núria Mancho-Fora A systematic review of simulation
procedures for FMRI connectivity studies 29--69
Abdul Raziq and
Raja Muhammad Ilyas and
Ghulam Hyder Talpur Differences among factors of job
satisfaction in classification of the
academic institute (school, college and
university) teachers of Balochistan,
Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Afsana-Al-Sharmin and
M. Ataharul Islam Generalized Weibull linear models for
Type-I censoring data . . . . . . . . . 87--102
Samira Zaroudi and
Mohammad Hassan Behzadi and
Mohammad Reza Faridrohani A copula approach for finding the type
of dependency with mortality force
function in insurance market . . . . . . 103--121
Mohd Saifullah Rusiman and
Suliadi Sufahani and
Nur Afifi Izzati Mohd Robi and
Abdul Wahab Abdullah and
Nur Amira Azmi Predictive modelling of marine fish
landings in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . 123--135
Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd and
El Hameed El Misery and
Mohamed Ali Hussein Fertility decline and contraceptive use
inequality: evidence from a
cross-sectional study in Egypt . . . . . 137--152
Na Li and
Jan Vrbik Linear regression with non-normal errors 153--164
Mahmoud Riad and
Ola Farouk Abd El Mabood A new goodness of fit test for the beta
distribution based on the empirical
Laplace transform . . . . . . . . . . . 165--177
Saeed Ghanbari and
Najaf Zare and
Zahra Shayan A practical method based on functional
data analysis and single exponential
smoothing to combine survival curves in
meta-analysis: a simulation study . . . 179--197
Nelson Christopher Dzupire and
Philip Ngare and
Leo Odongo Lévy process based Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
temperature model with time varying
speed of mean reversion . . . . . . . . 199--224
Kshma Kaushal and
Sukhdev Singh Portfolio optimization using wind driven
optimization technique . . . . . . . . . 225--241
Lam Weng Siew and
Saiful Hafizah Jaaman and
Lam Weng Hoe Enhanced index tracking model with
entropy maximization . . . . . . . . . . 243--258
Warisa Thangjai and
Sa-Aat Niwitpong and
Suparat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for variance and
difference between variances of
one-parameter exponential distributions 259--283
Warisa Thangjai and
Suparat Niwitpong Confidence intervals for common variance
of several one-parameter exponential
populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--311
Boonkong Dhakonlayodhin The performance of fuzzy control chart
for monitoring process mean and
variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--324
Essam Fawzy Aziz Modelling EGX30 of Egyptian stock market
using spectral analysis and harmonic
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
Bryan P. Sumalinab and
Arnulfo P. Supe Bayesian estimation of $ {\rm GARCH}(p,
q) $ model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--361
Arunendu Chatterjee Comparison of different wavelet
techniques for finding change points . . 363--378
Hend Auda and
Nagwa Albehery and
Esraa Hassan Robust estimator for relative poverty
line with application to Egypt . . . . . 379--400
A. Kübra Demirel and
H. Eray Çelik Dirichlet distribution and estimation of
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--421
Abdullah M. Almarashi and
Mohamed G. Khalil and
M. Elgarhy and
Mamhoud M. ElSehetry Exponentiated half logistic exponential
distribution with statistical properties
and applications . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--440
Yasemin Gençtürk and
Ayten Yi\ugiter and
Canan Hamurkaro\uglu A new model for data with structural
change at threshold: composite
exponential-lognormal model . . . . . . 441--456
Hina Khan and
Muhammad Aslam and
Masood Amjad Khan Ratio type estimators in unequal
probability sampling: a numerical study 457--471
Grine Azedine A pseudo-bivariate Weibull-$G$ family 473--486
Behnam Hozzar and
Ghasem Tohidi and
Behroz Daneshian On efficient solution of multiobjective
linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 487--499
Mezbahur Rahman and
Sabiha Mahzabeen Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
for the mixtures of normal distributions 501--518
Safwan Altarazi Enhancing conformance of injection blow
molding by integrating machine learning
modeling and Taguchi parameter design 519--535
Said H. Alkarni Generalized Lindley power series family
of distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 537--567
Yaqoob Al Rahbi and
S. M. Rizwan and
B. M. Alkali and
Andrew Cowell and
G. Taneja Reliability analysis of rodding anode
plant in an aluminum industry with
multiple repairmen . . . . . . . . . . . 569--597
Ahmed A. El-Sheikh and
Alaa A. Abdel-Aziz and
Hossameldin A. Afify On the properties of quantile regression
for dynamic panel data model using
two-stage approach . . . . . . . . . . . 599--609
Sameer Ahmad Hasan Al-Subh Chi-square test for Laplace distribution
using extreme and median RSS . . . . . . 611--623
Hanaa Abd El Reheem Salem and
Mona N. Abdel Bary Selection of variables in multi-group
discriminant analysis using mathematical
programming and classical approaches . . 625--645
N. V. Chandrasekara and
C. D. Tilakaratne and
M. A. Mammadov An ensemble technique for multi class
imbalanced problem using probabilistic
neural networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 647--658
G. Kallah-Dagadu and
B. K. Nkansah and
N. K. Howard Flexible statistical modelling of the
occurrences of transcription factor
binding sites along a DNA sequence . . . 659--691
Medhat M. Abdel Aal and
Mamdouh A. Alim Saad Mowafy and
Nehal Etman A statistical approach for understanding
the plethora of MIRNAS and MRNAS
interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693--713
Dioggban Jakperik and
Romanus Odhiambo Otieno and
George Otieno Orwa A semi-parametric multiplicative bias
reduction density with a parametric
start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715--729
Olli Salmensuu Potato price forecasts in Delhi retail
from Bayesian regime switching . . . . . 731--770
Naureen Riaz Muhammad Nouman Qureshi and
Muhammad Hanif Generalized estimator for population
variance in systematic random sampling 771--788
Felix O. Mettle and
Enoch N. B. Quaye and
Ravenhill A. Laryea and
Louis Asiedu Analysis of share prices as Markov
chains with countably infinite states 1--20
Alaa A. Abdel-Aziz and
Hossameldin A. Afify Two-stage quantile regression for
dynamic panel data models with fixed
effects: Monte Carlo simulation study 21--30
Maie M. Kamel Intervention model for exchange rate in
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
Mohamed A. Ismail and
Hend A. Auda and
Mahmoud M. Sadek Robust recursive analysis of seasonal
moving average models . . . . . . . . . 43--67
Mhamed Mesfioui and
Ali Algarni New ordering properties of order
statistics from dependent random
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--84
Aisha Fayomi Type I half logistic power Lomax
distribution: statistical properties and
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98
Syed Wasim Abbas and
Munir Ahmad and
Sajid Rasul Leveraging big data for official
statistics: some recent developments . . 99--136
Kamruzzaman Md and
Md. Arafat Rahman and
Muhammad Shuaib Analysis of count data fitting GEE
model: an application to adolescent
behavioral monitoring data . . . . . . . 137--149
Yaqoob Al Rahbi and
S. M. Rizwan and
B. M. Alkali and
Andrew Cowell and
G. Taneja Reliability analysis of multiple units
with multiple repairmen of rodding anode
plant in aluminum industry . . . . . . . 151--178
Hilary I. Okagbue and
Muminu O. Adamu and
Timothy A. Anake Closed form expression of the quantile
function of Maxwell--Boltzmann
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
Saeed Maghsoodloo On sigma-estimators from a normal
universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--236
Na Li and
Jan Vrbik and
Xiaojian Xu Linear regression with mis-specified
error distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 237--253
K. Sirikantisophon and
W. Wanishsakpong and
P. Chuangchang and
O. Thinnukool Land use change over time in Chiang Mai
Province, Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . 255--272
Aisha Fayomi and
Dalal Mal and
Samia Adham Statistical inference of the
exponentiated Kumaraswamy--exponential
distribution based on complete and Type
II censored samples . . . . . . . . . . 273--288
Seda Ba\csar Y\i lmaz and
H. Eray Çelik and
Veysel Y\i lmaz Healthcare service quality --- customer
satisfaction: PLS path model . . . . . . 289--300
Demet Sezer and
Nuri Celik Transmuted normal distribution and an
application to finance . . . . . . . . . 301--313
Oksana Kubaychuk Fast correction algorithms for weighted
empirical distribution functions . . . . 315--326
Rania M. Shalabi Non Bayesian and Bayesian estimation for
the bivariate generalized Lindley
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--344
Wan Muhamad Amir W. Ahmad and
Nursyabiha Zafakali and
Nor Azlida Aleng and
Mohd Shafiq Ibrahim and
Ruhaya Hasan and
Kasypi Mokhtar Modified zero inflated Poisson
regression analysis and its application
to public health data . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Alfred K. Mbah and
Wei Wei He and
Ronee Wilson and
O'Neil Lynch and
Karen Bruder and
Hamisu M. Salihu Transitions in depressive symptoms among
pregnant women exposed to environmental
tobacco smoke: an application of latent
transition analysis . . . . . . . . . . 19--34
Saman Hanif Shahbaz and
Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz On concomitants of dual generalized
order statistics for a bivariate inverse
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
Tarek M. Omara Modification of Liu-type estimator for
two SUR model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--66
Nurin Dureh and
Phattrawan Tongkumchum A comparison of logistic regression and
machine learning algorithms applied to
zero counts data in contingency tables 67--76
Aideed Bashir and
Abeera Amir Relationship between government
expenditure on education and GDP per
capita in Pakistan: an ARDL approach to
cointegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--103
Yongshun Xiao and
Tony Wragg A stochastic process model for the
survival and splintering of terrorist
organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--155
Neda Sedghi and
Reza Moghaddasi and
Saeed Yazdani and
Seyed Safdar Hosseini On the dependency of food price and
production: an Iranian modern time
varying copula-based analysis . . . . . 157--174
Shanchao Yang and
Weiwei Xu and
Xin Yang G-M integrated type instantaneous
volatility estimation . . . . . . . . . 175--192
A. Buabeng and
S. Twumasi-Ankrah and
K. A. Nyantakyi and
B. Kumi-Boateng Parsimonious model for predicting cocoa
production in Ghana . . . . . . . . . . 193--220
Amany Hassan Abdel-Karim Effect of different sampling methods on
estimating the confidence interval of
population coefficient of variation . . 221--236
Suboohi Safdar and
Ejaz Ahmed and
Arfa Maqsood Process capability indices for fatigue
life model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--251
Arfa Maqsood and
S. M. Aqil Burney and
Suboohi Safdar and
Tahseen Ahmed Jilani Outlier detection in linear time series
regression models . . . . . . . . . . . 253--268
Ashok Shanubhogue and
Rajendra G. Desai A method of constructing interval
estimations for the parameters of a
family of distributions under
progressive censoring . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Ramadan Hamed and
Hanan Aly and
Heba ElDeeb Optimum step stress accelerated
degradation test using goal programming 21--36
Athanase Polymenis A note on the asymptotic distribution of
Student's $t$ for AR(1) processes . . . 37--42
Essam Fawzy Aziz A suggested statistical model for
whether the liver is cirrhosed or not 43--51
Marta Galvani and
Silvia Figini Machine learning techniques to
understand the dynamics of terrorist
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--76
Tabatabaee Seyed Mehdi and
Zayeri Farid and
Baghestani Ahmad Reza and
Ghorbani Zahra and
Akbarzadeh Baghban Alireza A comparison between zero and doubly
inflated Poisson models based on a
simulation study . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--93
Direk Bualuang and
Yupaporn Areepong and
Saowanit Sukparungsee ARL of CUSUM control schemes for ZIB
model when the underlying distribution
is the ratio of two Poisson means . . . 95--112
Riffat Jabeen and
Saman Hanif Shahbaz and
Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz Relations for moments of generalized
order statistics for power Lindley
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--124
Doan Van Dinh Analysed money supply and inflation:
evidence from Vietnam economy . . . . . 125--142
M. G. A. Saumyamala and
N. V. Chandrasekara Hourly solar radiation forecasting using
artificial neural network model for
Colombo, Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . 143--151
Tolga Zaman Efficient estimators of population mean
using auxiliary attribute in stratified
random sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--171
Hanaa Abd El-Reheem Salem Approximate Bayesian estimation for odd
Burr III Lomax distribution . . . . . . 173--185
Heba A. Abd-ElWahab and
Rasha B. Elkholy and
Ahmed M. Gad Sensitivity analysis index for shared
parameter models in longitudinal studies 1--20
A. Amin Essam and
A. El-Dessouky Eman Estimation and prediction for
Kumaraswamy exponential distribution
based on upper record values . . . . . . 21--39
Yupaporn Areepong The exact solution of ARL on EWMA chart
for non seasonal AR model with exogenous
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--59
W. M. Afify and
Dina H. Abdelhady On progressive Type-I interval censored
under mixed model . . . . . . . . . . . 61--87
Hanaa Abd El-Reheem Salem Exponentiated exponential Pareto
distribution: properties and estimation 89--104
Ghada Abo-Zaid Multilevel modelling to examine the
effect of mothers' smoke prior to
pregnancy on childhood and adulthood
asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--119
Silvia Figini and
Pierpaolo Uberti Uncertainty interval to assess
performances of credit risk models . . . 121--133
Muhammad Rafique Daudpoto and
Abdul Raziq and
Muhammad Ismail Wassan Investigating the effect of RBC on
different parameters through hydraulic
retention time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--144
Essam Fawzy Aziz and
Nader Alber Fanous Determinants of Egyptian bank's
profitability using seemingly unrelated
regression model . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--153
Magda M. M. Haggag A new difference method for variance
estimation in non-parametric regression
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--189
Cherdchai Me-ead and
Rhysa McNeil and
Wandee Wanishsakpong Clustering regions in South Asia based
on factor analysis of temperature
anomalies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
Abdulaziz Alghamdi and
Alison Gray and
David Watson Investigation of metabolomics techniques
by analysis of MS Propolis data: which
pre-treatment method is better? . . . . 13--34
Hortensia Reyes-Cervantes and
Félix Almendra-Arao and
Marcos Morales-Cortés A comparison of confidence intervals for
a proportion and criteria for their
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43
Nikka S. Agbas and
Roel F. Ceballos On the conjoint analysis of consumer's
preferences on quality attributes of
rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55
Dina H. Abdel Hady Use of exponential distribution for
hybridization of distributions . . . . . 57--75
Zakiah Ibrahim Kalantan and
Mervat Khalifah Abd Elaal Parameters estimations on bivariate
Weibull $G$ distributions: a new family 77--122
Elham Sadeghi and
Reza Moghaddasi and
Seyed Safdar Hosseini and
Amir Mohammadi Nejad Is diversified export a driver for
agricultural growth in developing
countries? A dynamic model . . . . . . . 123--135
Yasser M. Amer and
Rania M. Shalabi Bias-Corrected maximum likelihood
estimation of the parameters of the
two-parameter Lindley distribution . . . 137--158
A. H. Al-Marshadi and
A. H. Alharbey and
A. M. Abd-Elfattah and
Muhammad Aslam Step--stress reliability for generalized
Rayleigh distribution based on censoring
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
Shamsa Kanwal and
Munir Ahmad Weighted Fréchet distribution
(area-biased): properties and
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Hakiim J. and
Nor Idayu Mahat The effects of resampling methods on
linear discriminant analysis for data
set with two imbalanced groups: an
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N. Q. Thuong and
V. A. Kolobkova and
P. T. Dong Application of the statistical method of
the stable design solutions synthesis
for UAV's development . . . . . . . . . 43--54
Anurak Busaman and
Khamron Mekchay and
Suchada Siripant and
Somporn Chuai-Aree and
Rhysa McNeil Testing an adaptive grid-based first
order finite volume scheme for dam-break
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--73
Ouchar Cherif Ali and
Stéphane Metchebon Takougang Aime and
Rasmane Yaro and
Youssouf Pare and
Blaise Some Comparison of two regression models for
predicting cotton yields in the Logone
occidental region of South Chad . . . . 75--87
Essam Fawzy and
Badrya Mahmoud and
Aya Mongy Modeling and forecasting of wheat
production in Egypt . . . . . . . . . . 89--101
Rohan J. Dalpatadu and
Kasun S. Kodikara and
Ashok K. Singh Impact of seasonality and rainfall on
tea production in Sri Lanka . . . . . . 103--123
Nazneen Sultana and
Shamima Hossain and
Kazi Md. Farhad Mahmud Factors influencing women's opinions
regarding violence in Bangladesh . . . . 125--147
Anthony C. Ogola and
Levi N. Mbugua and
George O. Orwa The gamma inverse Weibull Poisson
distribution with application to
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--172
Amani A. Ahmed and
Alyaa R. Zahran and
Moshira A. Ismail and
Abd El Naser Saad The effect of introducing a scale
parameter on the estimation of offset
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A. M. C. H. Attanayake and
S. S. N. Perera and
U. P. Liyanage Combining forecasts of ARIMA and
exponential smoothing models . . . . . . 199--208
Sutawanir Darwis and
Nusar Hajarisman and
Suliadi and
Achmad Widodo Exploring support vector regression for
bearing degradation . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
J. Faridzah and
H. A. Hazlina and
S. Y. Sharipah Soaad Robust alternatives to MEWMA control
chart using distance-based and
coordinate-wise robust estimators . . . 11--33
Suhailywati Ramli and
Saiful Hafizah Jaaman Median-Variance fuzzy with trapezoidal
fuzzy numbers for portfolio selection
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Tak K. Mak and
Fassil Nebebe Simulated likelihood estimation using
iterative importance sampling . . . . . 45--62
B. A. Anikin and
O. B. Anikin and
N. Q. Thuong and
P. T. Dong Forecasting the development of foreign
trade of Russia and Vietnam until 2025
based on logistic curve . . . . . . . . 63--78
Wandee Wanishsakpong and
Khairil Anwar Notodiputro and
Jeeraporn Thaithanan On comparing the efficiency of two
classification methods for precipitation
occurrence in Bangkok . . . . . . . . . 79--91
Carlos Rondero-Guerrero and
Isidro GonzÃ\textexclamdown lez-HernÃ\textexclamdown ndez and
Carlos Soto-Campos On a generalized uniform distribution 93--103
Sima Sharghi and
Kevin E. Stoll and
Kimberlyn K. Brooks and
Andrew Alt Using tree-based methods to predict
student retention with an emphasis on
the education, wealth, and density of
the hometown neighborhood . . . . . . . 105--135
M. M. T. Al-Kassab and
M. Almousa A comparison between ridge regression
and least absolute value using
simulation technique . . . . . . . . . . 137--146
Nguyen Hoang Hung and
Tran Tuan Kien Profitability of moving average
convergence divergence and moving
average on Vietnamese stock: a
comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--168
Essam Fawzy Aziz Using Holt's method and Holt--Winter's
method to improve the performance
quality of e-service FIFA2018 . . . . . 169--177
Sugito and
Alan Prahutama and
Mustafid Analysis of queue and performance of
toll Muktiharjo Semarang, Indonesia as
automatic toll service systems . . . . . 179--188
Muhammad Ijaz and
Qamar-uz-Zaman and
Yousaf Hayat and
Zafar Zaheer Bayesian estimation of the parameter of
exponential distribution under Jeffery
prior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--199
Ramadha D. Piyadi Gamage and
Ying-Ju Chen and
Wei Ning Modified jackknife empirical likelihood 201--215
Said H. Alkarni and
Wafaa A. Alshehri Power Lindley geometric distribution: a
new model for failure analysis in
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P. T. Dong and
N. T. Hong Nham and
V. D. Hoa The application of logistic model in
identifying factors affecting capital
access of small and medium enterprises
in Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--32
Azam Zaka and
Ahmad Saeed Akhter and
Riffat Jabeen The exponentiated generalized power
function distribution: theory and real
life applications . . . . . . . . . . . 33--63
Toan Ngoc Bui How does financial depth influence real
estate market? Evidence from the global
financial crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--75
Thu-Trang Thi Doan Profitability of commercial banks:
applying GMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--87
S. I. Noskov and
A. S. Vergasov Application criterion of displacement
when choosing the method of evaluating
the parameters of regression equations 89--94
José-Salathiel Kossa-Kongbowali and
Boniface Mfourga and
Roger Armand Makany and
Gabriel Kissita Proposal of dual simultaneous co-inertia
analysis: DSCIA . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--118
Ashwaq Bahaddad and
Bothinah Altaf and
Alyaa R. Zahran Multidimensional child well-being in
Jordan: a dominance approach . . . . . . 119--147
M. S. Hamed A single acceptance sampling plan for
truncated life test having the (P-A-L)
extended Weibull distribution . . . . . 149--159
V. D. Toropov A possible approach to filling gaps in
the source data . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--167
Ibrahim Sidi Zakari Harnessing the potential of real-time
data analysis and statistical modeling
for mapping exposure to air pollution 169--181
Mohamed Yusuf Hassan An over-dispersed and under-dispersed
generalized Poisson distribution . . . . 183--192
Majdah M. Badr and
Arwa A. Alhijji Statistical inference of generalized
logistic distribution of Type I and its
properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--216
Yujan Shen Optimum Bayesian inference for $3$-step
step-stress tests under Type-II
censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
P. T. Dong and
T. T. Hung An empirical study of the effect of
monetary policy on the economic growth
of Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Fuad Alduais Using non-linear programming to
determine weighted coefficient of
balanced loss function for estimating
parameters and reliability function of
Weibull distribution . . . . . . . . . . 31--53
Mohammed Alhagyan and
Fuad Alduais Forecasting the performance of Tadawul
All Share Index (TASI) using geometric
Brownian motion and geometric fractional
Brownian motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--65
Toan Ngoc Bui Financial development and trade
openness: a time series analysis . . . . 67--77
Jetsada Laipaporn and
Phattrawan Tongkumchum The time-varying correlation estimator
using the natural cubic spline
volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--95
Mowafaq Muhammed Al-Kassab and
Mohammed Qasim Al-Awjar A Monte Carlo comparison between least
squares and the new ridge regression
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--105
Vu Dinh Hoa Estimation of factors affecting
competitiveness of private business in
the Song Hong Delta, Vietnam . . . . . . 107--125
Riffat Jabeen and
Azam Zaka Percentiles estimation for the
parameters of power function
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
M. S. Hamed The mixture Weibull-generalized gamma
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--171
Thu-Trang Thi Doan Cash holdings of consumer goods
companies: applying GMM . . . . . . . . 173--184
Apiradee Lim and
Muhamad Rifki Taufik and
Phattrawan Tongkumchum and
Nurin Dureh Comparison of different supervised
machine learning algorithms for the
prediction of tuberculosis mortality . . 185--201
Mohammed Alhagyan and
Masnita Misiran and
Zurni Omar Efficient estimators for geometric
fractional Brownian motion perturbed by
fractional Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process 203--226
Ayed R. A. Alanzi and
S. F. Niazi Ali Bayesian prediction intervals for a new
bathtub shape failure rate lifetime
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Mostafa Sayed Mostafa Abd-El Hameed El Misery Female education and first birth event
in Egypt as simultaneous processes . . . 23--37
Doan Van Dinh Determinants of commercial banks'
profitability: evidence from Vietnam . . 39--58
Mayuening Eso and
Rhysa McNeil and
Abdunfattah Masamae Factors associated with severe violent
events in the southernmost provinces of
Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--74
Carina Ferreira and
Teresa Abreu and
Mário Basto $p$-value misconceptions in health
professionals and patients . . . . . . . 75--83
H. N. A. M. Wijayawardhana and
A. P. Hewaarachchi Periodic autoregressive model for
temperature data in Nuwara Eliya, Sri
Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
Muhammad Ijaz and
Atta Ullah Khan and
Syed Muhammad Asim and
Yousaf Hayat and
Syed Habib Shah and
Muhammad Farooq and
Kashif Ali and
Neelam and
Seema Zubair A new ratio type estimator to estimate
the population mean using auxiliary
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--108
Mohamed Khalifa Ahmed Issa and
Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelwahab Mahmoud Estimation of AR(1) panel data models
with missing observations . . . . . . . 109--117
Rama Krishna Yelamanchili Modeling stock market daily returns
volatility using symmetric and
asymmetric GARCH models with three
different distributions . . . . . . . . 119--140
Sanaa Al-Marzouki Statistical inference of Type II Topp
Leone inverse Rayleigh distribution . . 141--150
Marcos Salazar Medina and
José Luis Martinez Flores and
Diana Sánchez Partida and
Patricia Cano Olivo Motor equipment reliability analysis . . 151--174
Mashail Al-Sobhi and
Saman Hanif Shahbaz and
Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz Recursive computation for moments of
order statistics for transmuted
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 175--189
Saowapa Chaipitak Time series ARIMA model for prediction
of Thailand's monthly average cassava
starch domestic price . . . . . . . . . 191--205
Félix Almendra-Arao and
Hortensia J. Reyes-Cervantes and
Marcos Morales-Cortés Behavior of the Wald's test for a
proportion based on a shrinkage
estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--218
Qurat ul an Sabir and
Uzma Yasmeen and
Muhammad Hanif and
Tri Nguyen-Quang Identification of influence of the risk
factors to algal bloom in fresh water
reservoirs using multinomial logistics
regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--233
Muhammad Rashad and
Zafar Iqbal and
Muhammad Hanif Characterizations and entropy measures
of the Libby--Novick generalized beta
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--259
Dorcas W. Nduati and
Levi N. Mbugua and
Moses W. Wakoli Application of Kumaraswamy inverse
Weibull distribution in modeling
survival data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--22
David E. Omoregie and
Patrick Osatohanmwen Forecasting Nigeria's per capita
disposable income using the SARIMA time
series framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
Dina M. Sabry and
Ahmed M. Gad and
Ramadan H. Mohamed Fitting joint modeling of longitudinal
and time-to-event data using stochastic
EM approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--62
I. Elbatal and
M. Elgarhy A new generalization of Erlang-truncated
exponential distribution: properties and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--74
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Maximum binomial probabilities and game
theory voter models . . . . . . . . . . 75--85
Chantha Wongoutong Imputation for consecutive missing
values in non-stationary time series
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--102
A. M. C. H. Attanayake and
S. S. N. Perera and
U. P. Liyanage Negative binomial regression +
autoregressive integrated moving average
modelling of dengue disease in Colombo,
Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112
I. Elbatal and
M. Elgarhy Extended Marshall--Olkin length-biased
exponential distribution: properties and
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125
Nesma M. Darwish and
Ahmed M. Gad and
Ramadan H. Mohamed Fitting longitudinal data with missing
values in the response and covariates 127--142
Jeeraporn Thaithanan and
Chantha Wongoutong A combined forecasting model for
predicting the number of road traffic
accident deaths in Thailand . . . . . . 143--163
Arabinda Das Gmm estimation of a copula-based
stochastic frontier model . . . . . . . 165--180
Mohammed Omar Musa Mohammed and
Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah Using logistic regression to investigate
the risk factors of diabetes in Hotat
Bani Tamim Governorate . . . . . . . . . 181--201
Guobing Ying and
Shanchao Yang Kernel weighted volatility estimation
for stochastic diffusion model with jump 203--235
Khushnoor Khan and
Ali Algarni A group acceptance sampling plan using
mean lifetime as a quality parameter for
inverse Weibull distribution . . . . . . 237--249
Sanaa Al-Marzouki and
Sharifah Alrajhi Kumaraswamy Weibull Rayleigh
distribution: statistical properties and
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--266
Yanhui Zhang $K$-Means clustering to ttr based
lexical diversity analysis . . . . . . . 267--276
I. C. Kipchirchir Estimating an exponentially decaying
function of rate parameter of a Poisson
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Arniel A. Alderite and
Anthony F. Capili Comparison of ARIMA and singular
spectrum analysis in forecasting the
Philippine inflation rate . . . . . . . 19--31
G. Arslan and
B. Karabulut and
H. M. Ünver On using structural patterns in data for
classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--56
Sadasivan Karuppusamy Improved Poisson--Lindley distribution 57--68
K. S. Deepthi and
V. M. Chacko Reliability estimation of
stress-strength model using three
parameter generalized Lindley
distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--88
Alejandro Ruiz-Olivares and
Martha Elva Ramírez-Guzmán and
Sandy Yaredd Trujano-Ramos Forecasting Mexican peso--US dollar
exchange rate after the 2020 pandemic
with GARCH and XGBoost time series
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--106
Nguyen Hong Van Influencing factors on the formation and
development of the leather footwear
industry association cluster in the
northern key economic region in Vietnam 107--131
Thu-Trang Thi Doan and
Toan Ngoc Bui Intention to use debit card services: an
analysis in the light of the unified
theory of acceptance and use of
technology (UTAUT) . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
Yaqoob Al Rahbi A comparative analysis between a model
of multiple components with a single
repairman and a model of multiple
components with many repairmen . . . . . 143--150
Mishel Qyrana and
Silvia Figini Feature selection and multicollinearity
in supervised models . . . . . . . . . . 151--164
Kennet G. Cuarteros and
Noel G. Cuarteros Jr. Survival analysis on hemodialysis
patients using Cox regression . . . . . 165--187
B. Sulochana and
B. Re. Victor Babu A study on second order slope rotatable
designs under tri-diagonal correlated
structure of errors using a pair of
balanced incomplete block designs . . . 189--208
Dennis A. Tarepe and
Kennet G. Cuarteros and
Palawan M. Diangca A simulation assessment of the
properties of the estimators of a
partially linear model . . . . . . . . . 209--226
Fuad S. Alduais Determination of the optimal period for
carrying out preventive maintenance to
minimize expected total cost . . . . . . 227--246
Essam Fawzy and
Khaled Mohamed and
Fatma Ibrahim Suggested statistical models to study
the affecting factors on the performance
of shares and forecast the daily closing
price (applied study on the shares of
Google company) . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--262
B. R. Sreedhar and
K. Muthyalappa and
K. Pushpanjali Statistical analysis of agricultural
performance in different crops by using
sampling techniques . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
K. M. Sakthivel and
K. Dhivakar Topp--Leone generated-Dagum distribution
and its properties . . . . . . . . . . . 13--38
J. G. L. S. Jayawardena and
U. Anura Kumara and
M. A. K. Sriyalatha Measurement of relationship of power
sector reforms and social aspect of
corporate sustainability of electricity
generation of Sri Lanka --- exploratory
factor analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--60
Federico Bonelli and
Silvia Figini and
Alessandra Grossi Ensemble churn risk analytics . . . . . 61--76
Nawal G. Alghamdi and
Muhammad Aslam and
Khushnoor Khan Modeling count data using Poisson
regression in evaluation of educational
performance: a new paradigm . . . . . . 77--95
V. D. Toropov Application of the method of multiple
estimation of linear regression
parameters for modeling the level of
economic transparency . . . . . . . . . 97--102
P. Balasubramanyam and
K. Sreenivasa Murthy Trend based correction to the predicted
results for time series forecasting . . 103--114
Ahmed Saied Rahama Abdallah and
Hashmia Salih El-Jack Al-Nour Use of regression analysis to identify
the relationship between training and
real profits for Sudanese banks for the
period (2001--2014) . . . . . . . . . . 115--144
Diponkar Das and
Nazneen Sultana Climate change in Bangladesh: a quantile
trend of temperature . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
Mohammed Alhagyan and
Masnita Misiran and
Zurni Omar On effects of stochastic volatility and
long memory towards mortgage insurance
models: an empirical study . . . . . . . 165--174
M. A. M. Abraj and
A. P. Hewaarachchi Joint return period estimation of daily
maximum and minimum temperatures using
copula method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--190
Bindu Punathumparambath and
Kannan Vadakkadath Meethal New approach for estimating
differentially expressed genes in
microarray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--208
Milan Bimali and
Khimraj Shrestha Weighted likelihood-based approach to
hierarchical clustering . . . . . . . . 209--226
Bhuwaneshwar Kumar Gupt and
Md. Irphan Ahamed and
Manoshi Phukon Optimum stratification for an auxiliary
variable optimum allocation under a
superpopulation model . . . . . . . . . 1--20
N. M. Hakmanage and
N. V. Chandrasekara and
D. D. M. Jayasundara Application of linear programming models
for optimal resource planning and
management in sustainable cultivation
--- a case study in a farming village of
Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
Fuad S. Alduais A Bayesian analysis of record statistics
from the Lomax model under balanced loss
functions with nonlinear programming . . 33--45
Felix Okoe Mettle and
Enoch NiiBoi Quaye and
Dennis Arku and
Emmanuel Kojo Aidoo A quantitative model for a sustainable
pension plan in a developing economy . . 47--64
Sudarat Nidsunkid and
Mena Lao The performance of control chart for
individual measurements when the process
data are uniformly distributed . . . . . 65--83
Mahmoud M. Mansour and
Salah M. Mohamed and
Enayat M. Abd Elrazik An improved strategy to estimate the
rare sensitive parameter under Poisson
distribution by using two-stage
unrelated question RRT model . . . . . . 85--116
Geoffrey U. Ugwuanyim and
Harrison O. Amuji and
Desmond C. Bartholomew and
Hyginus Wisdom The reliability of art in the control of
Human Immune Virus (HIV) . . . . . . . . 117--132
Muhammad Zahid Rashid and
Ahmad Saeed Akhter Survival weighted power function
distribution with applications to
medical, oceanology and metrology data 133--160
Peter N. Mecha and
Isaac C. Kipchirchir and
Joseph A. M. Ottieno Generators for discrete mixtures based
on order statistics with application to
exponential distribution . . . . . . . . 161--178
Sulochana Beeraka and
B. Re. Victorbabu Measure of slope rotatability for second
order response surface designs under
intra-class correlated structure of
errors using balanced incomplete block
designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--205
Aseel Almansour Using big data in the real estate sector 207--224
Ryan Sides and
James Stamey Underreporting in mixed treatment
comparisons meta-analysis for Poisson
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--236
Onchere Walter and
Weke Patrick and
Otieno JAM and
Ogutu Carolyne Non-central gamma frailty with
application to life term assurance data 237--253
Anupma Kumari and
Amisha Gupta Application of multiple regression model
to determine the impact of foreign
direct investment and export on economic
growth of food processing industry in
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Onchere Walter and
Weke Patrick and
Otieno JAM and
Ogutu Carolyne Shared frailty model with application in
joint-life annuity insurance . . . . . . 23--42
J. G. L. S. Jayawardena and
U. Anura Kumara and
M. A. K. Sriyalatha Effectiveness of power sector reforms on
social aspect of corporate
sustainability of electricity generation
in Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--56
Sukanya Intarapak and
Thidaporn Supapakorn Forecasting the import value of Thailand 57--70
Hanan Elsaied Using observation driven models to fit
count daily new confirmed cases of
``COVID 19'' in Egypt . . . . . . . . . 71--91
Khushbakht Khan and
Muhammad Riaz Ahmad and
Mohammed Albassam and
Muhammad Aslam A statistical study on safety factors to
reduce the road accidents . . . . . . . 93--109
Enayat M. Abd Elrazik and
Mahmoud M. Mansour and
Salah M. Mohamed Modeling COVID-19 daily cases in Egypt 111--124