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Kristofer Mansson and B. M. Golam Kibria and Par Sjolander and Ghazi Shukur Improved Liu Estimators for the Poisson Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Jin Zheng and Dejun Xie Stochastic Modeling and Estimation of Market Volatilities with Applications in Financial Forecasting . . . . . . . . . 7 Marcos Escobar and Tim Friederich and Mikhail Krayzler and Luis Seco and Rudi Zagst Structural Credit Modeling Under Stochastic Volatility . . . . . . . . . 20 Kouji Yamamoto and Yuri Nozaki and Sadao Tomizawa Measures on Proportional Reduction in Error by Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic Means for Multi-way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Faisal G. Khamis and Ghaleb A. El-Refae Association between Spatial Patterns of Acute Malnutrition and Household Income in Iraq --- 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Francisco W. P. Marciano and A. D. C. Nascimento and M. Santos-Neto and G. M. Cordeiro The Mc-$ \Gamma $ Distribution and Its Statistical Properties: An Application to Reliability Data . . . . . . . . . . 53 Kouji Tahata and Keigo Kozai and Sadao Tomizawa Measure of Departure from Extended Bradley--Terry Model for Paired Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Vassili N. Kolokoltsov Nonlinear Markov Games on a Finite State Space (Mean-field and Binary Interactions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Mayer Alvo and Marie-Pascal Berthelot Nonparametric Tests of Trend for Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Sajid Ali and Muhammad Aslam and Nasir Abbas and Syed Mohsin Ali Kazmi Scale Parameter Estimation of the Laplace Model Using Different Asymmetric Loss Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Gurprit Grover and Alka Sabharwal A Parametric Approach to Estimate Survival Time of Diabetic Nephropathy with Left Truncated and Right Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Tim Jacobbe and Bob Horton The Importance of Sustained Professional Development for Teaching Statistics --- An Example Involving the Mode and Range 138
Chin-Shang Li Score Tests for Semiparametric Zero-inflated Poisson Models . . . . . . 1 Luz Milena Zea and Rodrigo B. Silva and Marcelo Bourguignon and Andrea M. Santos and Gauss M. Cordeiro The Beta Exponentiated Pareto Distribution with Application to Bladder Cancer Susceptibility . . . . . . . . . 8 Tahani Abdulrahmaan Abushal and Areej M. Al-Zaydi Bayesian Prediction Based on Generalized Order Statistics from a Mixture of Two Exponentiated Weibull Distribution Via MCMC Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Salvador Cruz Rambaud and Antonio Luis Rodriguez Lopez-Canizares A Methodological Note on the Convergence of Sequences of Random Variables . . . . 35 Byron J. Gajewski and Stephen D. Simon and Susan E. Carlson On the Existence of Constant Accrual Rates in Clinical Trials and Direction for Future Research . . . . . . . . . . 43 Eiichi Isogai and Chikara Uno On Second-order Approximations to the Risk in Estimating the Exponential Mean by a Two-stage Procedure . . . . . . . . 47 Shahedul A. Khan and Masud Rana and Longhai Li and Joel A. Dubin A Statistical Investigation to Monitor and Understand Atmospheric CFC Decline with the Spatial-longitudinal Bent-cable Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Rumana Rois and Tapati Basak and Ajit Kumar Majumder Marginal Likelihood-based One-sided $ L R $ Test for Testing Higher Order Autocorrelation in Presence of Nuisance Parameters --- a Distance Based Approach 69 Tahani Abdulrahmaan Abushal and Areej M. Al-Zaydi Estimation Based on Generalized Order Statistics from a Mixture of Two Rayleigh Distributions . . . . . . . . . 79 Kayode Samuel Adekeye Modified Simple Robust Control Chart Based on Median Absolute Deviation . . . 91 Marlo Kay Brown Detection of Changes in a Multinomial Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Serge B. Provost and Ali Akbar Mohsenipour The Distribution of Quadratic Expressions in Elliptically Contoured Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Ezgi Ayyildiz and Vilda Purutcuo\uglu Gazi and Ernst Wit A Short Note on Resolving Singularity Problems in Covariance Matrices . . . . 113 Jianfeng Zhang and David J. Olive and Ping Ye Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation with Canonical Correlation Analysis . . . . . 119 Brian Andrew Cattle and Paul D. Baxter and Thomas J. Flemming and Christopher Peter Gale and David C. Mitchell and Mark S. Gilthorpe and Julian A. Scott and Carolyn Czoski-Murray and Christopher McCabe Data Quality Improvement, Data Linkage and Multiple Imputation in the UK National Vascular Database . . . . . . . 137 Karl Schweizer A Weighted Version of the Tau-equivalent Model of Measurement for Items with Ordered Response Categories . . . . . . 151 Martin Victor Sewell The Efficient Market Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Joe Suzuki The Hannan--Quinn Proposition for Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Yuanyuan Liang and Keumhee C. Carriere Allocating Multiple Patients at a Time in Multiple-Objective Response-Adaptive Repeated Measurement Designs . . . . . . 186 Yanyan Xie and Zhengping Shi Stochastic Stabilization of Linear Systems Driven by Reflecting Brownian Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Barro Diakarya and Koté Blami and Souma\"\ila Moussa Spatial Stochastic Framework for Sampling Time Parametric Max-stable Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Mohamed Cheikh Haidara and Gane Samb Lo Statistical Estimation of Gap of Decomposability of the General Poverty Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Erik Barry Erhardt and Balgobin Nandram and Jai Won Choi Bayesian Simultaneous Intervals for Small Areas: An Application to Variation in Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Barro Diakarya and Diouf Saliou and Koté Blami Geostatistical Analysis with Conditional Extremal Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Gane Samb Lo and El Hadji Deme A Functional Generalized Hill Process and Its Uniform Theory . . . . . . . . . 250 Raydonal Ospina and Silvia L. P. Ferrari On Bias Correction in a Class of Inflated Beta Regression Models . . . . 269 Theodosia Prodromou Students' Construction of Meanings about the Co-ordination of the Two Epistemological Perspectives on Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Claudio Giovanni Borroni and Paola Maddalena Chiodini A Competitor of the Kolmogorov--Smirnov Test for the Goodness-of-fit Problem . . 1 Shaowei Zhang Studies on the Probabilistic Model for Ship-Bridge Collisions . . . . . . . . . 16 Samir Ben Hariz and Ali Kabui Empirical Value at Risk for Weak Dependent Random Variables . . . . . . . 24 Seung-Hwan Lee and Philip Deng and Eun-Joo Lee Analysis of Multiple Myeloma Life Expectancy Using Copula . . . . . . . . 44 Amadou Kamagate and Ouagnina Hili The Quasi Maximum Likelihood Approach to Statistical Inference on a Nonstationary Multivariate ARFIMA Process . . . . . . 53 Wenhao Gui A Marshall--Olkin Power Log-normal Distribution and Its Applications to Survival Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mariangela Zenga and Marshall H. Adele and Giordano Sabrina Modelling Students' Length of Stay at University Using Coxian Phase-type Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 David Olive Asymptotically Optimal Regression Prediction Intervals and Prediction Regions for Multivariate Data . . . . . 90 Steve Su and Abeer Hasan and Wei Ning The $ R S $ Generalized Lambda Distribution Based Calibration Model . . 101 Kouji Yamamoto and Ryota Shinjo and Sadao Tomizawa Improved Measure on Extended Marginal Homogeneity for Ordinal Square Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Theodosia Prodromou Estimating Parameters from Samples: Shuttling between Spheres . . . . . . . 113
Andrew Woolston and Yu-Kang Tu and Mark S. Gilthorpe and Paul D. Baxter Measuring the Impact of Collinearity in Epidemiological Research . . . . . . . . 1 Andrew Adewale Alola and Mustafa Tunay and Violet Alola Analysis of Possibility Theory for Reasoning under Uncertainty . . . . . . 12 Chandrabose Manoj and Pushpa Wijekoon and Roshan Darshana Yapa The McDonald Generalized Beta-Binomial Distribution: A New Binomial Mixture Distribution and Simulation Based Comparison with Its Nested Distributions in Handling Overdispersion . . . . . . . 24 Bander Al-Zahrani and Javid Gani Dar and Abdulkader Daghistani A Note on Closure Properties of Classes of Discrete Lifetime Distributions . . . 42 Agustin Hernandez-Bastida and M. Pilar Fernandez-Sanchez The Bayes Premium in an Aggregate Loss Poisson--Lindley Model with Structure Function STSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Rene Ferland and François Watier Switch-When-Safe Multiperiod Mean-Variance Strategies . . . . . . . . 59 Karl Schweizer A Threshold-Free Approach to the Study of the Structure of Binary Data . . . . 67 Suman Sanyal and David Grow Existence and Uniqueness for Stochastic Dynamic Equations . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Gurprit Grover and Alka Sabharwal and Juhi Mittal A Bayesian Approach for Estimating Onset Time of Nephropathy for Type 2 Diabetic Patients Under Various Health Conditions 89 Andrada Ivanescu A Note on Bivariate Smoothing for Two-Dimensional Functional Data . . . . 102 John Harold Nixon On Multiple Hypothesis Testing Maximizing the Average Power . . . . . . 112 Theodosia Prodromou Informal Inferential Reasoning: Interval Estimates of Parameters . . . . . . . . 136
N. K. Sajeevkumar and M. R. Irshad Estimation of the Parameters of Bivariate Normal Distribution with Equal Coefficient of Variation Using Concomitants of Order Statistics . . . . 1 Ali Alkenani and Keming Yu Penalized Single-Index Quantile Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ahmad Alzaghal and Felix Famoye and Carl Lee Exponentiated $ T - X $ Family of Distributions with Some Applications . . 31 Frosso S. Makri and Zaharias M. Psillakis and Anastasios N. Arapis Counting Runs of Ones with Overlapping Parts in Binary Strings Ordered Linearly and Circularly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Ötüken Senger A Monte Carlo Study to Assess the Impact of Kurtosis on Statistical Power of Wald--Wolfowitz Test . . . . . . . . . . 61 Aubin N'dri and Ouagnina Hili Hellinger Distance Estimation of Strongly Dependent Multi-Dimensional Gaussian Processes . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Wendy J. Harrison and Mark S. Gilthorpe and Amy Downing and Paul D. Baxter Multilevel Latent Class Modelling of Colorectal Cancer Survival Status at Three Years and Socioeconomic Background Whilst Incorporating Stage of Disease 85 M. M. E. Abd El-Monsef and M. M. Seyam Discriminating Among Several Semiparametric Models . . . . . . . . . 96 Mehmet Hakan Satman A New Algorithm for Detecting Outliers in Linear Regression . . . . . . . . . . 101 Kossi Essona Gneyou A Central Limit Theorem for a Nonparametric Maximum Conditional Hazard Rate Estimator in Presence of Right Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Geert Molenberghs and Michael G. Kenward and Geert Verbeke and Samuel Iddi and Achmad Efendi On the Connections Between Bridge Distributions, Marginalized Multilevel Models, and Generalized Linear Mixed Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Muhannad Faiz Al-Saadony and Paul Hewson and Julian Stander Cholesky Decomposition for the Vasicek Interest Rate Model . . . . . . . . . . 22 Marick S. Sinay and Chi-Wen Hsu and John S. J. Hsu Bayesian Estimation With Flexible Prior for the Covariance Structure of Linear Mixed Effects Models . . . . . . . . . . 29 Marilena Furno and Domenico Vistocco Qu Test for Structural Breaks in Quantile Regressions . . . . . . . . . . 42 Jacek Bialek Measuring Average Rate of Return of Pensions: A Discrete, Stochastic and Continuous Price Index Approaches . . . 56 Yin Li and Keumhee Chough Carriere Assessing Goodness of Fit of Exponential Random Graph Models . . . . . . . . . . 64 Kent Riggs and Dean Young and Jeremy J. Becnel Probability Inequalities for the Sum of Random Variables When Sampling Without Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Phung Duy Quang Ruin Probability in a Generalized Risk Process Under Interest Force With Homogeneous Markov Chain Premiums . . . 85 Lang'o Odondi Performance of Principal Stratification Method Adjusting for Treatment Noncompliance in Two Arms of a Randomized Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Jayrold P. Arcede and Miraluna L. Herrera and Mark Jolet A. Cubelo and Alfredo M. Grino Chi-Square Mixture of Transformed/Inverse Transformed Gamma Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mohamed Elmi Detection of Multiple Change Points by the Filtered Derivative and False Discovery Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 K. Djeddour and S. Meddahi Kernel Gradient of Density of Probability Estimate From Contaminated Associated Observations . . . . . . . . 24 Golnaz Shahtahmassebi and Rana Moyeed Bayesian Modelling of Integer Data Using the Generalised Poisson Difference Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Rehab F. Khalaf Queueing Systems With Four Different Main Server's Interruptions and a Stand-By Server . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chinthaka Kuruwita and Colin Gallagher and K. B. Kulasekera Testing Equality of Nonparametric Quantile Regression Functions . . . . . 55 Mehmet Hakan Satman and Mustafa Altunbey Selecting Location of Retail Stores Using Artificial Neural Networks and Google Places API . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Arwa Y. Al-Saiari and Lamya A. Baharith and Salwa A. Mousa Marshall--Olkin Extended Burr Type XII Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Sumaia A. Latif and Pedro A. Morettin Estimation of a Spearman-Type Multivariate Measure of Local Dependence 1 Alexei Kourbatov The Distribution of Maximal Prime Gaps in Cramér's Probabilistic Model of Primes 18 Baidyanath Pal and Babulal Seal Multivariate Relationships Between Physiologic and Anthropometric Variables: A Data Based Analysis . . . . 30 Salvador Cruz Rambaud and Antonio Luis Rodriguez Lopez-Canizares Random Variables Fundamental in Probability and Sigma-Complete Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Emmanuel S. Adabor and George K. Acquaah-Mensah and Francis T. Oduro Inferring Transcriptional Regulatory Relationships Among Genes in Breast Cancer: An Application of Bayes' Theorem 52 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Luis H. de Santana and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Rodrigo R. Pescim A New Family of Distributions: Libby--Novick Beta . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Charles J. Mode Estimating Statistical Measures of Pleiotropic and Epistatic Effects in the Genomic Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 K. Doku-Amponsah and F. O. Mettle and T. Ansah-Narh Large Deviations, Basic Information Theorem for Fitness Preferential Attachment Random Networks . . . . . . . 101 K. Doku-Amponsah Exponential Approximation, Method of Types for Empirical Neighbourhood Distributions of Random Graphs by Random Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Francisco M. C. Medeiros and Antônio H. M. da Silva-Júnior and Dione M. Valença and Silvia L. P. Ferrari Testing Inference in Accelerated Failure Time Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 3, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Yu Wu and Yong Lin and Chin-Shang Li and Shou-En Lu and Weichung Joe Shih Asymptotic Efficiency of an Exponential Cure Model When Cure Information Is Partially Known . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Claude Thiago Arrabal and Marinho Gomes de Andrade Filho and Karina Paula dos Santos Silva Bayesian Approach Using Latent Variable for Zero Truncated Poisson Distribution: Application for Species-Area Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mohamed Elmi The Parameters Optimization of Filtered Derivative for Change Points Analysis 29 Ao Yuan and Yizheng Wei and Kepher Makambi and Hongkun Wang Approximate Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Interval Censoring Model Case II . . . . . . . . 44 Nicolas Marie A Pathwise Fractional One Compartment Intra-Veinous Bolus Model . . . . . . . 65 G. R. Al-Dayian and A. A. El-Helbawy and H. R. Rezk Statistical Inference for a Simple Constant Stress Model Based on Censored Sampling Data From the Kumaraswamy Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 80 Eduardo L. Montoya and Nehemias Ulloa and Victoria Miller A Simulation Study Comparing Knot Selection Methods With Equally Spaced Knots in a Penalized Regression Spline 96 Longyang Wu and Richard J. Cook Marginal Methods for Multivariate Failure Times Under Event-Dependent Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Feng Chen and Kani Chen Modeling Event Clustering Using the $m$-Memory Cox-Type Self-Exciting Intensity Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 M. Gharib and M. M. Ramadan and Kh. A. H. Al-Ajmi Some New Characterizations of Markov--Bernoulli Geometric Distribution Related to Random Sums . . . . . . . . . 138 Ida Moghimipour and Malihe Ebrahimpour Comparing Decision Tree Method Over Three Data Mining Software . . . . . . . 147 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 3, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Andriy Yurachkivsky A Conditional Mean Square Estimate for the Solution of a SDE . . . . . . . . . 1 Stella B. Acquah and Richard K. Avuglah and Emmanuel Harris Time Series Behavior of the Volume of Wood Products Export in Ghana . . . . . 12 Jonathan D. Mahnken and Xueyi Chen and Alexandra R. Brown and Eric D. Vidoni and Sandra A. Billinger and Byron J. Gajewski Evaluating Variables as Unbiased Proxies for Other Measures: Assessing the Step Test Exercise Prescription as a Proxy for the Maximal, High-Intensity Peak Oxygen Consumption in Older Adults . . . 25 Mouhamed Amine Niang and Guy Martial Nkiet and Aliou Diop Testing Bivariate Normality Based on Nonlinear Canonical Analysis . . . . . . 35 Bashiru I. I. Saeed and S. K. Appiah and N. N. N. Nsowah Nuamah and Louis Munyakazi and A. A. I. Musah Model Equivalence in General Linear Models: Set-to-Zero, Sum-to-Zero Restrictions, and Extra Sum of Squares Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 M. P. Iwundu and D. W. Ebong Modified Quick Convergent Inflow Algorithm for Solving Linear Programming Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 M. P. Iwundu and E. B. Albert-Udochukwuka On the Behaviour of $D$-Optimal Exact Designs Under Changing Regression Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 3, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Serge B. Provost and Susan Z. Sheng Polynomially Adjusted Saddlepoint Density Approximations . . . . . . . . . 1 Nie He and Yuan-Biao Zhang and Zhen Zhang and Xin-Guang Lv Evaluation of Academic Level of Sci-tech Journals Based on Rough Set and TOPSIS 12 Hongsheng Dai Exact Simulation for Fork-Join Networks with Heterogeneous Service . . . . . . . 19 Aiyang Tao and Yong Lin and Jose Pinheiro and Weichung Joe Shih Dose Finding Method in Joint Modeling of Efficacy and Safety Endpoints in Phase II Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Giampiero Marra and Rosalba Radice Flexible Bivariate Binary Models for Estimating the Efficacy of Phototherapy for Newborns with Jaundice . . . . . . . 46 M. Gharib and M. M. Mohie El-Din and A. Sharawy Characterization of the Skew-Normal Distribution Via Order Statistics and Record Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Yunjiao Hu and Guangqiang Lan and Chong Zhang The Explicit Solution and Precise Distribution of CKLS Model under Girsanov Transform . . . . . . . . . . . 68 K. Doku-Amponsah and F. O. Mettle and E. N. N. Nortey Large Deviation Principle for the Empirical Degree Measure of Preferential Attachment Random Graphs . . . . . . . . 76 Phil Dean Young Independence Distribution-preserving Covariance Structures for the Likelihood Ratio Test for $ L X B = 0 $ in the General Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . 87 Kwabena Doku-Amponsah Large Deviation Result for the Empirical Locality Measure of Typed Random Geometric Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Si-Jing Meng and Yuan-Biao Zhang and Gui-Sen Xu and Jun-Ta Wu College Basketball Coach Evaluation Based on Dynamic DHGF Evaluation Model 100 Manoel Wallace A. Ramos and Ana Percontini and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Ronaldo V. da Silva The Burr XII Negative Binomial Distribution with Applications to Lifetime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 David J. Olive and Lasanthi C. R. Pelawa Watagoda and Hasthika S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don Visualizing and Testing the Multivariate Linear Regression Model . . . . . . . . 126 Raid B. Salha and Hazem I. El Shekh Ahmed Reweighted Nadaraya--Watson Estimator of the Regression Mean . . . . . . . . . . 138 Dinesh Sharma and Amanda Miller and Caroline Hollingsworth Estimating Explained Variation of a Latent Scale Dependent Variable Underlying a Binary Indicator of Event Occurrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Sanjoy K. Sinha and Abdus Sattar A Robust Approach to Identifying Differential Circulating miRNAs in Breast Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Changsheng Yi and Qiumei Jin Random Fuzzy Decision Models for Pharmaceutical R&D Project Investment under Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 4, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Pannapa Changpetch and Dennis K. J. Lin Model Selection for Poisson Regression via Association Rules Analysis . . . . . 1 Michelle Xia and David P. M. Scollnik A Bayesian Mixture Model Accounting for Zeros and Negatives in the Loss Triangle 10 Bander Al-Zahrani and Mashail Al-Sobhi On Some Properties of the Reversed Variance Residual Lifetime . . . . . . . 24 Ammar M. Sarhan and Bruce Smith and David C. Hamilton Estimation of $ P(Y < X) $ for a Two-parameter Bathtub Shaped Failure Rate Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Timothy G. Gregoire Nonparallel Regressions with Indicator Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Ngozi C. Umelo-Ibemere and Harrison O. Amuji Quantile Plots of the Prediction Variance for Partially Replicated Central Composite Design . . . . . . . . 55 Broderick O. Oluyede and Macaulay Okwuokenye and Karl E. Peace Inequalities and Approximations of Weighted Distributions by Lindley Reliability Measures, and the Lindley--Cox Model with Applications . . 61 Abou El-Makarim A. Aboueissa Comparison of Two Means of Two Log-Normal Distributions When Data is Singly Censored . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Farnoosh Ashoori and Malihe Ebrahimpour and Atena Gharib and Abolghasem Bozorgnia Minimal Generalized Extreme Value Distribution and Its Application in Modeling of Minimum Temperature . . . . 87 M. P. Iwundu and I. E. Ndiyo Comparative Study of the Quick Convergent Inflow Algorithm (QCIA) and the Modified Quick Convergent Inflow Algorithm (MQCIA) . . . . . . . . . . . 95 M. Ahsanullah and A. Alzaatreh and I. Ghosh and G. G. Hamedani Characterizations of the Weibull--X and Burr XII Negative Binomial Families of Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Daniel Koh Assessing Relative Importance Using RSP Scoring to Generate Variable Importance Factor (VIF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Kejia Hu and Jaesik Choi and Alex Sim and Jiming Jiang Best Predictive Generalized Linear Mixed Model with Predictive Lasso for High-Speed Network Data Analysis . . . . 132 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 4, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Shahedul Khan Modeling a Mixture of Linear and Changepoint Trajectories for Longitudinal Time-Series Data . . . . . 1 Maalee Almheidat and Felix Famoye and Carl Lee Some Generalized Families of Weibull Distribution: Properties and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Han Yu Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests Based on The Asymptotic Variant of The Minimax Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Mohammed Albassam Characterizations of Probability Distributions with Completely Monotone Hazard Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Saeed Aldahmani and Hongsheng Dai Unbiased Estimation for Linear Regression When $ n < v $ . . . . . . . . 61 Chinthaka Kuruwita Regularized Single Index Quantile Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 A. Nanthakumar and S. Kanbur and E. Wilson On the Detection of Heteroscedasticity by Using CUSUM Range Distribution . . . 88 G. G. Hamedani and I. Ghosh Kumaraswamy-Half-Cauchy Distribution: Characterizations and Related Results 94 Jeremy Phillips and Steven B. Caudill and Franklin G. Mixon Tournament Seeding Efficiency and Home Court Advantage: College Basketball's National Invitation Tournament . . . . . 101 Salehin K. Chowdhury and Sanjoy K. Sinha Semiparametric Marginal Models for Binary Longitudinal Data . . . . . . . . 107 M. Ahsanullah and G. G. Hamedani and M. Maadooliat Characterizations of Distributions via Conditional Expectation of Generalized Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Abou El-Makarim A. Aboueissa Comparison of Means of Two Log-Normal Distributions when Data is Multiply Censored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 G Chaudhuri On Periodic Maintenance of a Coherent System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Abdelouahab Bibi and Fateh Merahi A Note on $ \mathbb {L}_2 $-structure of Continuous-time Bilinear Processes with Time-varying Coefficients . . . . . . . 150 Deborah Weissman-Miller and Kay C. Graham Novel Scale Development for Fear of Falling and Falls: Analysed Using a Semiparametric Ratio Estimator (SPRE) 161 Changsheng Yi and Qiumei Jin A Multi-stages Decision Approach for Managerial Flexibility of Energy R&D Project under Fuzzy Environment . . . . 169 Theodosia Prodromou Students' Emerging Reasoning about Data Tables of Large-Scale Data . . . . . . . 181 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 4, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
M. P. Iwundu Optimal Partially Replicated Cube, Star and Center Runs in Face-centered Central Composite Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alan Ricardo da Silva and Iracema Veiga Madeira Mauriz A SAS Macro for Adaptive Spatial Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Karl Schweizer and Xuezhu Ren and Tengfei Wang and Florian Zeller Does the Constraint of Factor Loadings Impair Model Fit and Accuracy in Parameter Estimation? . . . . . . . . . 40 Richard Douglas Imaginary Number Probability in Bayesian-type Inference . . . . . . . . 51 Shakhawat Hossain and Hatem A. Howlader Estimation Techniques for Regression Model with Zero-inflated Poisson Data 64 Ammar M. Sarhan and Joseph Apaloo Inferences for a Two-parameter Lifetime Distribution with Bathtub Shaped Hazard Based on Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 77 Louis Asiedu and Atinuke O. Adebanji and Francis Oduro and Felix O. Mettle Statistical Evaluation of Face Recognition Techniques under Variable Environmental Constraints . . . . . . . 93 Ronaldo V. da Silva and Frank Gomes-Silva and Manoel Wallace A. Ramos and Gauss M. Cordeiro The Exponentiated Burr XII Poisson Distribution with Application to Lifetime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Ahmed Z. Afify and G. G. Hamedani and Indranil Ghosh and M. E. Mead The Transmuted Marshall--Olkin Fréchet Distribution: Properties and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 4, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Gauss M. Cordeiro and Edwin M. M. Ortega and G. G. Hamedani and Diogo A. Garcia The McBurr XII and Log-McBurr XII Models with Applications to Lifetime Data . . . 1 Michael Brimacombe A Note on Linear and Second Order Significance Testing in Nonlinear Models 19 Isaac O. Ajao and Femi J. Ayoola and Joseph O. Iyaniwura Temporal Disaggregation Methods in Flow Variables of Economic Data: Comparison Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Chuanhua Wei and Xiaonan Wang Principal Components Regression Estimation in Semiparametric Partially Linear Additive Models . . . . . . . . . 46 Gareth O. Roberts and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal Surprising Convergence Properties of Some Simple Gibbs Samplers under Various Scans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Safaa K. Kadhem and Paul Hewson and Irene Kaimi Recursive Deviance Information Criterion for the Hidden Markov Model . . . . . . 61 Raid B. Salha and Hazem I. El Shekh Ahmed and Hossam O. El-Sayed Adaptive Kernel Estimation of the Conditional Quantiles . . . . . . . . . 79 Mayumi Naka and Ritei Shibata Asymptotic Distribution of Cramér--von Mises Statistic When Contamination Exists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 M. P. Iwundu and S. U. Ekpo Rules for Identifying the Initial Design Points for Use in the Quick Convergent Inflow Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Anita Brobbey and Aerambamoorthy Thavaneswaran and Saumen Mandal Wrapped Zero-inflated Poisson Distribution and Its Properties . . . . 111 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Yao Luo and Eunji Lim On Consistency of Absolute Deviations Estimators of Convex Functions . . . . . 1 Deborah Weissman-Miller On Predicting Survival in Prostate Cancer: Using an Extended Maximum Spacing Method at the Change Point of the Semiparametric Ratio Estimator (SPRE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mounir Arfi On the Convergence Rate for a Kernel Estimate of the Regression Function . . 29 Sigve Hovda Transmetric Density Estimation . . . . . 35 Alexander K. White and Samir K. Safi The Efficiency of Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting in the Presence of Autocorrelated Disturbances . . . . . 51 You Liang and A. Thavaneswaran and B. Abraham Recent Developments in Recursive Estimation for Time Series Models . . . 59 Zohdy M. Nofal and Ahmed Z. Afify and Haitham M. Yousof and Daniele C. T. Granzotto and Francisco Louzada Kumaraswamy Transmuted Exponentiated Additive Weibull Distribution . . . . . 78 Yingmei Xu and Kane Ladji and Diawara Daouda Mixed Method of Extreme Value Theory, with Application to the Calculation of the Portion of Each Claim Payable by the Reinsurer of Excess of Sinister . . . . 100 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Aerambamoorthy Thavaneswaran and Saumen Mandal and Dharini Pathmanathan Estimation for Wrapped Zero Inflated Poisson and Wrapped Poisson Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elizabeth M. Hashimoto and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Edwin M. M. Ortega and G. G. Hamedani New Flexible Regression Models Generated by Gamma Random Variables with Censored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Benzion Boukai and Zinoviy Landsman The Kendal--Ressel Exponential Dispersion Model: Some Statistical Aspects and Estimation . . . . . . . . . 32 Birsen Eygi Erdogan Long-term Examination of Bank Crashes Using Panel Logistic Regression: Turkish Banks Failure Case . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Mohamed Tahir Bayesian Sequential Estimation of the Inverse of the Pareto Shape Parameter 49 M. E. Kanwai and O. E. Asiribo and A. Isah Use of Auxiliary Variables and Asymptotically Optimum Estimators in Double Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Sigve Hovda Properties of Transmetric Density Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Rose D. Baker and Ian G. McHale Making Better Decisions: Can Minimizing Frequentist Risk Help? . . . . . . . . . 80 Prabhakar Chalise and Eric Chicken and Daniel McGee Time Scales in Epidemiological Analysis: An Empirical Comparison . . . . . . . . 91 Li Guan and Ying Wan A Strong Law of Large Numbers for Set-Valued Negatively Dependent Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Bander Al-Zahrani On the Estimation of Reliability of Weighted Weibull Distribution: A Comparative Study . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hérica P. A. Carneiro and Dione M. Valença Gradient and Likelihood Ratio Tests in Cure Rate Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Mary Paschal Iwundu Alternative Second-Order N-Point Spherical Response Surface Methodology Design and Their Efficiencies . . . . . 22 Kouji Yamamoto and Yuya Matsuda and Sadao Tomizawa Collapsed Double Symmetry Model and Its Decomposition for Square Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Kiyotaka Iki and Akira Shibuya and Sadao Tomizawa Diagonal Exponent Conditional Symmetry Model for Square Contingency Tables with Ordered Categories . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Andrzej Korzeniowski and Rachel Traylor Dynamic Reliability of a Cluster Server 45 Michael Gollob and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Kevin Thorpe The Probability of Pathogenicity in Clinical Genetic Testing: A Solution for the Variant of Uncertain Significance 52 Pierpaolo Angelini and Antonio Maturo On the Dichotomy between the Psychological or Empirical Aspect of Subjective Probability and the Logical or Geometrical One . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Ampalavanar Nanthakumar Multivariate Kurtosis as a Tool for Comparing Copula Models . . . . . . . . 67 Wolfgang Tschirk The Principle of Indifference Does Not Lead to Contradictions . . . . . . . . . 79 Yoshifumi Hyodo and Masahide Kuwada and Hiromu Yumiba On the Existence Conditions for Balanced Fractional $ 2^m $ Factorial Designs of Resolution $ \mathrm {R}^{\ast }(\{ 1 \} | \Omega_{\ell }) $ with $ N < \nu_{\ell }(m) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Sujay Mukhoti and Pritam Ranjan Mean-correction and Higher Order Moments for a Stochastic Volatility Model with Correlated Errors . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Christian A. Hesse and John B. Ofosu and Samuel K. Darkwah The Effect of Age on Road Traffic Fatality Index in Ghana . . . . . . . . 111 Tristan Guillaume Computation of the Survival Probability of Brownian Motion with Drift When the Absorbing Boundary is a Piecewise Affine or Piecewise Exponential Function of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Ahmad Alzaghal and Indranil Ghosh and Ayman Alzaatreh On Shifted Weibull--Pareto Distribution 139 Eunji Lim and Mina Attallah Estimation of Smooth Functions via Convex Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Saran Ishika Maiti Tau-Proportionate Form of Congeneric Covariance Structure . . . . . . . . . . 1 Entisar A. Elgmati and Nadia B. Gregni Quartile Method Estimation of Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution Data with Outliers . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Guolong Zhao Considering Both Statistical and Clinical Significance . . . . . . . . . 16 Azizur Rahman and Junbin Gao and Catherine D'Este and Syed Ejaz Ahmed An Assessment of the Effects of Prior Distributions on the Bayesian Predictive Inference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Yanhong Wu Estimation of Change-point and Post-change Parameters after Adaptive Sequential CUSUM Test in an Exponential Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Karl Schweizer and Xuezhu Ren and Michael Schreiner Construct-focused Configural Invariance for Measures Showing a Multi-dimensional Structure and Application to Exchange Test Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Livio Fenga Time Series Chaos Detection and Assessment via Scale Dependent Lyapunov Exponent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Serpil Kilic Depren and Özer Depren Determination of Support Vector Boundaries in Generalized Maximum Entropy for Multilevel Models . . . . . 10 Fabio Gobbi Convolution Based Unit Root Processes: a Simulation Approach . . . . . . . . . . 22 E. A. Appiah and G. S. Ladde Linear Hybrid Deterministic Dynamic Modeling for Time-to-Event Processes: State and Parameter Estimations . . . . 32 Kristi Mai and Qingyang Zhang Identification of Biomarkers for Predicting the Overall Survival of Ovarian Cancer Patients: a Sparse Group Lasso Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Iberedem A. Iwok Seasonal Modelling of Fourier Series with Linear Trend . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Birhanu Worku Urge and Kepher Makambi and Anthony Wanjoya Estimating Three-way Latent Interaction Effects in Structural Equation Modeling 73 Ogunyiola Ayorinde Joshua and Peter N. Mwita and Carolyn N. Njenga Estimating Dependence Structure and Risk of Financial Market Crash . . . . . . . 85 André Beauducel and Christopher Harms and Norbert Hilger Reliability Estimates for Three Factor Score Estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Raed Al-Hussain and Reza Khorramshahgol A Comprehensive Analysis of the Determinants of Swap Problem in the Supply Chain of the Petroleum Industry 108 Christian A. Hesse and Francis T. Oduro and John B. Ofosu and Emmanuel D. Kpeglo Assessing the Risk of Road Traffic Fatalities Across Sub-Populations of a Given Geographical Zone, Using a Modified Smeed's Model . . . . . . . . . 121 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 5, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Giuliana Cortese Estimating the Area under the ROC Curve with Modified Profile Likelihoods . . . 1 Chunlin Ji On Sequential Learning for Parameter Estimation in Particle Algorithms for State-Space Models . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Andriy Yurachkivsky Limit Distribution of a Generalized Ornstein--Uhlenbeck Process . . . . . . 24 Li Guan Limit Theorems for Negatively Dependent Fuzzy Set-Valued Random Variables . . . 40 Oykum Esra Askin and Deniz Inan and Ali Hakan Buyuklu Parameter Estimation of Shared Frailty Models Based on Particle Swarm Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Imene Allab and François Watier First-passage Time Estimation of Diffusion Processes through Time-Varying Boundaries with an Application in Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Kane Ladji and Diawara Daouda and Diallo Moumouni Extreme Value Theory: a New Characterization of the Distribution Function for the Mixed Method . . . . . 71 Mark Von Tress Inverse Sampling for McNemar's Test . . 78 Nikolai Kolev and Jayme Pinto Characterizations of Extreme Value Extended Marshall--Olkin Models with Exponential Marginals . . . . . . . . . 87 Tang Jiahui and Zhang Yuanbiao and Peng Churu and Huang Xinxin Installation and Dispatch of the Traffic Patrol Service Platform . . . . . . . . 95 Michael B. Brimacombe A Directional Bayesian Significance Test for Equality of Variances . . . . . . . 102 Daniele Cristina Tita Granzotto and Josmar Mazucheli and Francisco Louzada Statistical Study of Monthly Rainfall Trends by Using the Transmuted Power Lindley Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 111 Gokarna R. Aryal and Edwin M. Ortega and G. G. Hamedani and Haitham M. Yousof The Topp--Leone Generated Weibull Distribution: Regression Model, Characterizations and Applications . . . 126 Qiang Zhang and Michael R. Kosorok Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials Using Brownian Bridges . . . . . 142 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Iberedem A. Iwok Justification of Wold's Theorem and the Unbiasedness of a Stable Vector Autoregressive Time Series Model Forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jialin Wen and Min Zou and Yikai Ma and Hao Luo Evaluating the Influence of Taxi Subsidy Programs on Mitigating Difficulty Getting a Taxi in Basis of Taxi Empty-loaded Rate . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Carlos N. Bouza and Amer Ibrahim Al-Omari and Agustín Santiago and Jose M. Sautto Ratio Type Estimation Using the Knowledge of the Auxiliary Variable for Ranking and Estimating . . . . . . . . . 21 Eun-Joo Lee and Noah Klumpe and Jonathan Vlk and Seung-Hwan Lee Modeling Conditional Dependence of Stock Returns Using a Copula-based GARCH Model 32 Per Gösta Andersson A Classroom Approach to Illustrate Transformation and Bootstrap Confidence Interval Techniques Using the Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Giuseppe Lamberti and Tomas Aluja Banet Invariance Test: Detecting Difference Between Latent Variables Structure in Partial Least Squares Path Modeling . . 54 Agostino Tarsitano and Ilaria L. Amerise A Model to Approximate the Distribution of Rank Order Associations . . . . . . . 66 Sanku Dey and Bander Al-Zahrani and Samerah Basloom Dagum Distribution: Properties and Different Methods of Estimation . . . . 74 Rachel Lunde Traylor and Andrzej Korzeniowski Reliability of a Clustered-Task Server under Modulated Correlation . . . . . . 93 Yuan Yu and Dhiman Bhadra and Balgobin Nandram Tests of Independence for a $ 2 \times 2 $ Contingency Table with Random Margins 106 Daniele Cristina Tita Granzotto and Vera Lucia Damasceno Tomazella and Francisco Louzada Objective Bayesian Snalysis for the Complementary Exponential Geometric Model Applied to Cancer Data . . . . . . 122 Bayo H. Lawal On Some Mixture Models for Over-dispersed Binary Data . . . . . . . 134 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Eunji Lim and Fanny Gonzalez Estimation of Multivariate Smooth Functions via Convex Programs . . . . . 1 Didier Alain Njamen Njomen Convergence of the Nelson--Aalen Estimator in Competing Risks . . . . . . 9 Gauss M. Cordeiro and Thiago A. N. de Andrade and Marcelo Bourguignon and Frank Sinatra Gomes da Silva The Exponentiated Generalized Standardized Half-logistic Distribution 24 Nikolai Kolev and Jayme Pinto Dependence Modeling in Energy Markets using Sibuya-type Copulas . . . . . . . 43 Bilin Zeng and Kang Chen and Cong Wang Geometric Views of Partial Correlation Coefficient in Regression Analysis . . . 51 Jalmar M. F. Carrasco and Gauss M. Cordeiro An Extension of the Kumaraswamy Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tiago V. F. Santana and Edwin M. M. Ortega and Gauss M. Cordeiro and Adriano K. Suzuki Generalized Exponentiated Weibull Linear Model in the Presence of Covariates . . 75 Jialin Wen and Min Zou Evaluating Model of Road Traffic in Open Housing Estate Based on Cellular Automaton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Aamir Saghir and G. G. Hamedani and Sadaf Tazeem and Aneeqa Khadim Weighted Distributions: A Brief Review, Perspective and Characterizations . . . 109 Idelphonse Leandre Tawanou Gbohounme and Oscar Owino Ngesa and Jude Eggoh Self-Selecting Robust Logistic Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Thiago A. N. de Andrade and Luz Milena Zea Fernandez and Frank Gomes-Silva and Gauss M. Cordeiro The Gamma Generalized Pareto Distribution with Applications in Survival Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Marco Barnabani A Parametric Test to Discriminate Between a Linear Regression Model and a Linear Latent Growth Model . . . . . . . 157 Kathleen Scalise Hybrid Measurement Models for Technology-Enhanced Assessments Through mIRT--Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Osman Kamari Characterizations Based on Cumulative Entropy of the Last-order Statistics . . 183 Oti-Boateng Emmanuel Estimating Disease Risk of Diabetes Cases in the Presence of Underreporting 188 Rand R. Wilcox Linear Contrasts Based on an Extension of the Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Approach 198 Félix Almendra-Arao and Hortensia J. Reyes-Cervantes and José J. Castro-Alva A New Margin Function for Anti-infective Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
I. E. Okorie and A. C. Akpanta and J. Ohakwe and D. C. Chikezie and C. U. Onyemachi and E. O. Obi The Adjusted Log-logistic Generalized Exponential Distribution with Application to Lifetime Data . . . . . . 1 Jishan Ma and Yuanbiao Zhang Commodity Future Money Flows Trading Strategies Based on HMM . . . . . . . . 16 Yuuki Rikimaru and Ritei Shibata Non-Identifiability of Simultaneous Spatial Autoregressive Model and Singularity of Fisher Information Matrix 31 Oyindamola B. Yusuf and Ayo S. Adebowale and Elijah A. Bamgboye and Temitayo Odusote and Olusanmi Iyabode and Oladapo A. Ladipo Use of Quantile Regression in Determining Factors Associated with BMI Among Vulnerable Adolescents in Rivers State, Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Juliano Bortolini and Marcelino A. R. Pascoa and Renato Ribeiro de Lima and Anderson C. S. Oliveira The Extended Generalized Gamma Geometric Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 N. Sanjari Farsipour and A. Asgharzadeh Estimating the Common Mean of $k$ Normal Populations with Known Variance . . . . 70 Renaud Fadonougbo and George O. Orwa Jump Adapted Scheme Of a Non Mark Dependent Jump Diffusion Process with Application to the Merton Jump Diffusion Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Hossein Najarzadegan and Mohammad Hossein Alamatsaz and Saied Hayati Truncated Weibull-$G$ More Flexible and More Reliable than Beta-$G$ Distribution 1 Eunji Lim and Elizabeth Tavarez Nonparametric Tests for Convexity/Monotonicity/Positivity of Multivariate Functions with Noisy Observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 John S. J. Hsu and Thomas Leonard Insurance Mortality Rates, Performance Indicators, and Possibly Monotonic Population Proportions . . . . . . . . . 29 Aboma Temesgen Application of Poisson Mixed Combined Models for Identifying Correlations of CD4 Count Progression in HIV Infected TB Patients During ART Treatment Period . . 42 Hossein Zareamoghaddam and Serge B. Provost and Ejaz Ahmed A Log-Density Estimation Methodology Applicable to Massive Bivariate Data . . 53 Amal S. Hassan and Saeed E. Hemeda and Sudhansu S. Maiti and Sukanta Pramanik The Generalized Additive Weibull-$G$ Family of Distributions . . . . . . . . 65 Olusegun Michael Otunuga Time Varying Parameter Estimation Scheme for a Linear Stochastic Differential Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Heiko Groenitz Improving Estimation Accuracy in Nonrandomized Response Questioning Methods by Multiple Answers . . . . . . 101 Igor G. Zurbenko and Mingzeng Sun Applying Kolmogorov--Zurbenko Adaptive R-Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Bayo H. Lawal Correcting for Non-Sum to $1$ Estimated Probabilities in Applications of Discrete Probability Models to Count Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 M. Ahsanullah and M. Z. Anis Some Characterizations of Exponential Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Theodosia Prodromou Model-based Informal Inference . . . . . 140 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Naijun Sha and Hao Yang Teng A Bayes Inference for Step-Stress Accelerated Life Testing . . . . . . . . 1 Manabu Asai and Michael McAleer Asymptotic Theory for Extended Asymmetric Multivariate GARCH Processes 13 D. R. Jensen and D. E. Ramirez Use of Hotelling's $ T^2 $: Outlier Diagnostics in Mixtures . . . . . . . . 24 Karl Schweizer and Stefan Troche and Siegbert Reiß Can Variances of Latent Variables be Scaled in Such a Way That They Correspond to Eigenvalues? . . . . . . . 35 Samantha Morin and Myron Hlynka and Shan Xu Comments on a Two Queue Network . . . . 43 Frank D. Lewis and Gordon J. Horn Rasch Analysis and Functional Measurement in Post-Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . 50 Nahed A. Mokhlis and Emad J. Ibrahim and Dina M. Gharieb Interval Estimation of Stress-Strength Reliability for a General Exponential Form Distribution with Different Unknown Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 M. Gharib and B. I. Mohammed and W. E. R. Aghel Marshll--Olkin Extended Inverse Pareto Distribution and its Application . . . . 71 Hasanthika and N. H. E. and Jayasekara and L. A. L. W. Analyzing the Customer Attrition using Survival Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 85 Taehan Bae and Jingjiao Chen On Heavy-tailed Crack Distribution for Loss Severity Modeling . . . . . . . . . 92 Emmanuel Alphonsus Akpan and Imoh Udo Moffat Detection and Modeling of Asymmetric GARCH Effects in a Discrete-Time Series 111 Di Shu and Wenqing He A New Method for Logistic Model Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Ed Herranz and James Gentle and George Wang Unit Roots in Time Series with Changepoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Patrick Assonken and Gangaram S. Ladde A Family of Non Linear Models in a Market with Semi Markov Regimes: Application to the Commodity and the Derivative Market . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Louis Mutter and Steven B. Kim Using Simple Alternative Hypothesis to Increase Statistical Power in Sparse Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Fathy Helmy Eissa The Exponentiated Kumaraswamy--Weibull Distribution with Application to Real Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 6, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Mohieddine Rahmouni and Ayman Orabi The Exponential-Generalized Truncated Geometric (EGTG) Distribution: A New Lifetime Distribution . . . . . . . . . 1 Marco Dall'Aglio and Theodore P. Hill Characterization of the Bayesian Posterior Distribution in Terms of Self-information . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Siu Keung Tse and Chang Ding Accelerated Life Test Sampling Plans under Progressive Type II Interval Censoring with Random Removals . . . . . 26 G. G. Hamedani Characterizations and Infinite Divisibility of Certain Recently Introduced Distributions III . . . . . . 39 Lamya A. Baharith Parametric and Semiparametric Estimations of Bivariate Truncated Type I Generalized Logistic Models driven from Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 M. E. Ghitany and Ramesh C. Gupta and Shaochen Wang Some Characterization Results by Conditional Expectations and their Applications to Lindley-type Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Million Wesenu Demissie Determinants and Heterogeneity of Time-to-Recovery from Obstetric Fistula Patients; Comparison of Acceleration Failure Time and Parametric Shared Frailty Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Yoshiyuki Kitaoka Statistical Distribution of Roots of a Polynomial Modulo Primes III . . . . . . 115 Joshua Patterson and Andrzej Korzeniowski M/M/1 Model with Unreliable Service . . 125 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Daniele Cristina Tita Granzotto and Carlos Aparecido dos Santos and Francisco Louzada The Transmuted Weibull Regression Model: an Application to Type 2 \bionameDiabetes Mellitus Data . . . . . 1 Boikanyo Makubate and Broderick O. Oluyede and Gofaone Motobetso and Shujiao Huang and Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe The Beta Weibull-$G$ Family of Distributions: Model, Properties and Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Traoré Boubakar and Diabaté Lassina and Touré Belco and Fané Abdou The Shortest Confidence Interval for the Mean of a Normal Distribution . . . . . 33 Xiaoyang Liu and Hengyang Liu and Ya Luo and Chao Liu WSN Node Positioning and Mathematics Modeling Based on Genetic Method . . . . 39 Pierpaolo Angelini and Angela De Sanctis On a Geometric Extension of the Notion of Exchangeability Referring to Random Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 M. J. Hossain and A. K. Majumder Proposed Distance-Based Test for Testing Multivariate Multiple Regression Coefficients under Restricted Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Yusra A. Tashkandy and Maha A. Omair and Abdulhamid A. Alzaid Bivariate and Bilateral Gamma Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Jennifer Lorio and Norou Diawara and Lance A. Waller Density Estimation of Spatio-temporal Point Patterns Using Moran's Statistic 80 Peter Congdon Assessing Impacts on Mortality of Lifestyle Factors: Allowing for Model Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Hatem Baffoun and Mekki Hajlaoui and Abdeljelil Farhat On Estimating Non-standard Discrete Distributions Using Adaptive MCMC Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B and Adekanmbi Multiple Binomial Regression Models of Learning Style Preferences of Students of Sidhu School, Wilkes University . . . 9 Oyindamola Yusuf and Rotimi Afolabi and Ayoola Ayoola Modelling Excess Zeros in Count Data with Application to Antenatal Care Utilisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 G. G. Hamedani Characterizations and Infinite Divisibility of Certain Recently Introduced Distributions IV . . . . . . 36 Chenyang Zhang and Chuanhua Wei and Bailing An Stochastic Restricted Estimation in Partially Linear Measurement Error Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Broderick O. Oluyede and Huybrechts F. Bindele and Boikanyo Makubate and Shujiao Huang A New Generalized Log-logistic and Modified Weibull Distribution with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Hao Yan The Influence of the Two-child Policy on China's Population Projection . . . . . 94 Kiyotaka Iki and Shun Sato and Sadao Tomizawa Decomposition of Parsimonious Independence Model Using Pearson, Kendall and Spearman's Correlations for Two-Way Contingency Tables . . . . . . . 105 D. K. Ghosh and Shreya Ghosh and Narenrda C. Sinohjia On a Class of Variance Balanced Designs 112 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Steven Kim Explaining Lord's Paradox in Introductory Statistical Theory Courses 1 Shatrunjai Singh and Swagata Karkare and Sudhir Baswan and Vijendra Singh The Application of Text Mining Algorithms In Summarizing Trends in Anti-Epileptic Drug Research . . . . . . 11 Yusuke Saigusa and Tomohisa Maruyama and Kouji Tahata and Sadao Tomizawa Extended Marginal Homogeneity Model Based on Complementary Log--Log Transform for Square Tables . . . . . . 27 K. Karunarathna and S. Brindha and P. Paramadevan Modeling Trend in Telecommunication in Sri Lanka: A Case study on Internet and Cellular Connections . . . . . . . . . . 32 Giang Truong Le New Bounds on Poisson Approximation for Random Sums of Independent Binomial Random Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 André Beauducel and Norbert Hilger On Optimal Allocation of Treatment/Condition Variance in Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . 50 Jehan. A. Almamy and Mohamed Ibrahim and M. S. Eliwa and Saeed Al-mualim and Haitham M. Yousof The Two-Parameter Odd Lindley Weibull Lifetime Model with Properties and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Mehrnaz Doustmohammadi and Niloufar Shirani Bidabadi and Sumalatha Kesaveraddy and Michael Anderson The Impact of Sidewalks on Vehicle-Pedestrian Crash Severity . . . 69 Fathy Helmy Eissa Stress-Strength Reliability Model with The Exponentiated Weibull Distribution: Inferences and Applications . . . . . . 78 Tze-San Lee The Bayes Factor for the Misclassified Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Conlet Biketi Kikechi and Richard Onyino Simwa On Comparison of Local Polynomial Regression Estimators for $ P = 0 $ and $ P = 1 $ in a Model Based Framework . . 104 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Shakila Bashir and Mujahid Rasul A Characterization and Recurrence Relations of Moments of the Size-Biased Power Function Distribution by Lower Record Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ru Zhang and Zi-ang Lin and Shaozhen Chen and Min Zhao and Mingjie Yuan Adaboost--SVM Multi-Factor Stock Selection Model Based on Adaboost Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Masudul Islam and Afroza Akhtar and Sirajum Munira and Md. Salauddin Khan and Md Monzur Murshed Optimized Dickey--Fuller Test Refines Sign and Boundary Problems Compare to Traditional Dickey--Fuller Test . . . . 19 Marcus E. Berzofsky and Paul P. Biemer Time Varying Grouping Variables in Markov Latent Class Analysis: Some Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . 28 Sumalatha Kesavareddy and Kirolos Haleem and Mehrnaz Doustmohammadi and Michael Anderson Comparison of Crash Severity Risk Factors at Signalized and Stop-Controlled Intersections in Urban and Rural Areas in Alabama . . . . . . . 50 Rebecca Davis and Elvis K. Donkoh and Bernard Mawah and Blessed Amonoo Internal Financial Risk Management In Microfinance Companies: A Case Study Of Akuapem Rural Bank, Ghana . . . . . . . 64 T. H. M. Abouelmagd The Logarithmic Burr--Hatke Exponential Distribution for Modeling Reliability and Medical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Bo Deng and Keumhee Chough Carriere Testing Simultaneous Marginal Homogeneity for Clustered Matched-Pair Multinomial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 M. P. and Iwundu Construction of Modified Central Composite Designs for Non-standard Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 T. H. M. Abouelmagd A New Flexible Version of the Lomax Distribution with Applications . . . . . 120 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Bayo H. Lawal GLM for Some Class of Com-Poisson Distributions with Applications . . . . 1 A. H. Laghari and M. G. H. Talpur and R. M. I. Rajput and S. J. Leghari and U. Ali and G. M. Laghari and M. A. Sanjrani Statistical Analysis of Cotton Cultivated Area, Production and Price 14 Shatrunjai P. Singh and Swagata Karkare and Sudhir M. Baswan and Vijendra P. Singh Unsupervised Machine Learning for Co/Multimorbidity Analysis . . . . . . . 23 Morteza Marzjarani Heteroscedasticity and Model Selection via Partitioning in Fisheries Data . . . 33 Boikanyo Makubate and Broderick O. Oluyede and Neo Dingalo and Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe The Beta Log-Logistic Weibull Distribution: Model, Properties and Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Karl Schweizer and Siegbert Reiß and Stefan Troche Approaches for Structural Investigations of Binary Data Using Confirmatory Factor Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Fang Fang and Yong Lin and Weichung Joe Shih and Shou-En Lu and Guangrui Zhu Evaluation of Performance of Adaptive Designs Based on Treatment Effect Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chrysogonus C. Nwaigwe and Chukwudi J. Ogbonna and Ojochekpa Achem On the Modeling of Carbon Monoxide Flaring in Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Brahima Soro and Ouagnina Hili and Youssouf Diagana Asymptotic Properties for Weighted Averages of Longitudinal Dependent Data 100 Khairul Islam and Tanweer Shapla Estimation of the Poisson Parameter with Moment Generating Method . . . . . . . . 113 Hasthika S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don A Relationship Between the One-Way MANOVA Test Statistic and the Hotelling Lawley Trace Test Statistic . . . . . . 124 Lutfiah Ismail Al turk and Wejdan Saleem Al ahmadi Comparative Study of the Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process Type-I Generalized Half-Logistic Distribution . . . . . . . 132 Altug Alkan and Orhan Ozgur Aybar On a Family of Sequences Related to Prime Counting Function . . . . . . . . 149 Alexandru Belu and Wesley Maddox and Wojbor A. Woyczynski Copulas and Dependency Measures for Multivariate Linnik Distributions . . . 154 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 7, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Betty C. Korir and Josphat K. Kinyanjui Parametric Interval Estimation of the Geeta Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ilaria Lucrezia Amerise and Agostino Tarsitano A New Method to Detect Outliers in High-frequency Time Series . . . . . . . 16 Aotian Yang and Wanjie Sun An Exact Method for Power Calculation for a Three-arm Clinical Endpoint Bioequivalence Study . . . . . . . . . . 25 Lasanthi C. R. Pelawa Watagoda A Sub-Model Theorem for Ordinary Least Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Lutfiah Ismail Al turk Characteristics and Application of the NHPP Log-Logistic Reliability Model . . 44 G. G. Hamedani Characterizations of Certain Recently Introduced Discrete Distributions . . . 56 Baitshephi Mashabe and Broderick O. Oluyede and Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe and Boikanyo Makubate and Syamala Krishnannair A New Class of Generalized Weibull-$G$ Family of Distributions: Theory, Properties and Applications . . . . . . 73 Fiaz Ahmad Bhatti and G. G. Hamedani and Wenhui Sheng and Munir Ahmad Cubic Rank Transmuted Modified Burr III Pareto Distribution: Development, Properties, Characterizations and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 A. Nanthakumar On the Error Rate Comparison of the Quadratic Discriminant Function, Euclidean Distance Classifier, Fisher's Linear Discriminant Function and the Vine Copulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Steven B. Kim and Jeffrey O. Wand Sequential Testing in Reliability and Validity Studies With Repeated Measurements per Subject . . . . . . . . 120 Mingao Yuan and Yue Zhang Empirical Likelihood Inference for Partial Functional Linear Regression Models Based on B-spline . . . . . . . . 135 Mehrnaz Doustmohammadi and Michael Anderson A Bayesian Regression Model for Estimating Average Daily Traffic Volumes for Low Volume Roadways . . . . . . . . 143 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Joshua Patterson and Andrzej Korzeniowski M/M/1 Model With Unreliable Service and a Working Vacation . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Wooyoung M. Moon and Jun S. Song Boosted Convolutional Decision Trees for Translationally Invariant Pattern Recognition and Transfer Learning . . . 11 Wenqing He and Wantao Wang and Lihua Yue and Xinhua Liu A Composite Likelihood Method for the Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data: An Application to a PBDE Study . . . . . 23 Josua Mwanyekange and Samuel Musili Mwalili and Oscar Ngesa Bayesian Joint Models for Longitudinal and Multi-state Survival Data . . . . . 34 Jehan. A. Almamy Extended Poisson-Log-Logistic Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Mustafa C. Korkmaz and Emrah Altun and Haitham M. Yousof and G. G. Hamedani The Odd Power Lindley Generator of Probability Distributions: Properties, Characterizations and Regression Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Tsung-Wu Lin and Hejie Lin Mechanical Proof of the Maxwell Speed Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Charles J. Mode and Candace K. Sleeman A Review of the Methodologies Used in the Derivation of Formulas for Parametric Survival Functions with Illustrative Numerical Examples . . . . 99 Fathy H. Eissa and Shuo-Jye Wu and Hamid H. Ahmed Estimation of the Parameters and Expected Test Time of Exponentiated Weibull Lifetimes Under Type II Progressive Censoring Scheme With Random Removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Yusuke Saigusa and Mitsuhiro Takami and Aki Ishii and Sadao Tomizawa Measure of Departure From Local Symmetry for Square Contingency Tables . . . . . 140 Saeed Al-mualim Extended Poisson Inverse Weibull Distribution: Theoretical and Computational Aspects . . . . . . . . . 146 Morteza Marzjarani Iterative Approaches to Handling Heteroscedasticity With Partially Known Error Variances . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Gang Liu and Qiang Fu and Junjun Kang Cavitation and Negative Pressure: A Flexible Water Model Molecular Dynamics Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Ukamaka Cynthia Orumie and Ogbonna Onyinyechi Principal Component Analysis and Its Derivation From Singular Value Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
John Sang Jin Kang and Serge B. Provost and Jiandong Ren Moment-Based Density Approximation Techniques as Applied to Heavy-tailed Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Debolina Ghatak and Bimal K. Roy An Improved Bound for Security in an Identity Disclosure Problem . . . . . . 24 Yohana Maiga Marwa and Isambi Sailon Mbalawata and Samuel Mwalili Continuous Time Markov Chain Model for Cholera Epidemic Transmission Dynamics 32 Angelini Pierpaolo and Angela De Sanctis An Essential Analogy Between Coherent Previsions of Random Gains and Well-Behaved Preferences . . . . . . . . 46 Shaul K. Bar-Lev and Ad Ridder Monte Carlo Methods for Insurance Risk Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Anis Rezgui Polynomial Interpolation of Normal Conditional Expectation . . . . . . . . 75 Langat Reuben Cheruiyot and Odhiambo Romanus Otieno and George O. Orwa A Boundary Corrected Non-Parametric Regression Estimator for Finite Population Total . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Sandhya E and Latha C. M Compound Extended Geometric Distribution and Some of Its Properties . . . . . . . 96 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Queensley C. Chukwudum Reinsurance Pricing of Large Motor Insurance Claims in Nigeria: an Extreme Value Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Aren Megerdichian Economic Analysis of Optimal Sample Size in Legal Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . 13 G. G. Hamedani On Characterizations of Four Recently Introduced Distributions: Two Continuous and Two Discrete . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Sifriyani Sifriyani Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing of Multivariable Nonparametric Spline Regression in the GWR Model . . . . . . 32 Sandra L. Furterer and Ethling Hernandez Improving the Healthcare Quality Measurement System Using Attribute Agreement Analysis Assessing the Presence and Stage of Pressure Ulcers 47 Ahmed Merie and Myron Hlynka Medical Intervention for Disease Stages Using Game Theory, Markov Chains, and Bayesian Inference . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Antonio Pacifico International Co-movements and Business Cycles Synchronization Across Advanced Economies: a SPBVAR Evidence . . . . . . 68 Faithful C. Onwuegbuche and Alpha B. Kenyatta and Steeven B. Affognon and Exavery P. Enock and Mary O. Akinade Application of Extreme Value Theory in Predicting Climate Change Induced Extreme Rainfall in Kenya . . . . . . . 85 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Karl Schweizer and Siegbert Reiß On the Contextual Conditions Driving a Difficulty Factor . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Riley Jones and Adriana Ocejo Assessing Guaranteed Minimum Income Benefits and Rationality of Exercising Reset Options in Variable Annuities . . 13 William. H. Laverty and Ivan. W. Kelly Visualizing State Identification in Auto-Regressive Hidden Markov (ARHMM) Models With the Forward and Backward Algorithms Using Excel . . . . . . . . . 25 Diouma Sira KA and George Otieno Orwa and Oscar Ngesa Exponentiated Nadarajah--Haghighi--Poisson Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Maha A. Omair and Abdullah A. Al-Shiha and Ruba A. Alyafi Lack-of-fit Testing for Polynomial Regression Models Without Replications 49 Shuji Ando A Bivariate Index for Visually Measuring Marginal Inhomogeneity in Square Tables 58 Balgobin Nandram and Yuan Yu Bayesian Analysis of Sparse Counts Obtained From the Unrelated Question Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Kiche J and Oscar Ngesa and George Orwa On Generalized Gamma Distribution and Its Application to Survival Data . . . . 85 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Fastel Chipepa and Broderick O. Oluyede and Boikanyo Makubate A New Generalized Family of Odd Lindley-$G$ Distributions With Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 G. Solomon Osho A General Framework for Time Series Forecasting Model Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average-ARIMA and Transfer Functions . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Thierry E. Huillet Partitioning Problems Arising From Independent Shifted-Geometric and Exponential Samples With Unequal Intensities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Yiping Zhang and Myron Hlynka and Percy H. Brill First Passage and Collective Marks . . . 47 Ahmad Alzaghal and Duha Hamed New Families of Generalized Lomax Distributions: Properties and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Jing Li and Xueyan Li Liu Estimator in Semiparametric Partially Linear Varying Coefficient Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Jason Hong Jae Park Random Measure Algebras Under O-dot Product and Morse-Transue Integral Convolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 David R. Hare and Faisal Kaleem Expected Winning Probabilities in Sequential Truels under Uniform Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Adebowale Ayo Stephen and Asa Soladoye and Abe John Olugbenga and Oyinlola Funmilola Folasade Sex Preference, Religion and Ethnicity Roles in Fertility Among Women of Childbearing Age in Nigeria: Examining the Links Using Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 8, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Tamae Kawasaki and Toshiki Naito and Takashi Seo $ T^2 $ Type Test Statistic and Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Two Sub-mean Vectors . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cristie Diego Pimenta and Messias Borges Silva and Rose Lima de Morais Campos and Fabrício Maciel Gomes Application of Principal Component Analysis and Response Surface Methodology in the Process of Steel Wire Tempering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Shaul K. Bar-Lev Independent, Tough Identical Results: The Class of Tweedie on Power Variance Functions and the Class of Bar-Lev and Enis on Reproducible Natural Exponential Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Ghaith Abdulsattar A. Jabbar Alkubaisi The Role of Ensemble Learning in Stock Market Classification Model Accuracy Enhancement Based on Naive Bayes Classifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Muhammad Ahsan Ul Haq and G. G. Hamedani and M. Elgarhy and Pedro Luiz Ramos Marshall--Olkin Power Lomax Distribution: Properties and Estimation Based on Complete and Censored Samples 48 Joshua Patterson and Andrzej Korzeniowski Decomposition of M/M/1 With Unreliable Service and a Working Vacation . . . . . 63 A. Nanthakumar A Comparison of Archimedean Copula Models for approximating Bivariate Skew-Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . 70 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chuanhua Wei and Nana Zheng and Ke Tian Efficient Estimation of Interval-Valued Symbolic Data Regression Model . . . . . 1 O. K. BODUNWA and O. A. FASORANBAKU $D$-optimal Design in Linear Model With Different Heteroscedasticity Structures 7 Charles J. Mode An Algorithmic Approach to Modelling the Co-Evolution of Parasites and Their Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ngigi Peter Kung'u and J. K. Arap Koske and Josphat K. Kinyanjui $D$-Optimal Slope Design for Second Degree Kronecker Model Mixture Experiment With Three Ingredients . . . 30 Josphat. K. Kinyanjui and Betty. C. Korir Bayesian Estimation of Parameters of Weibull Distribution Using LINEX Error Loss Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Steven B. Kim and Jeffrey O. Wand A Paradox in Bland--Altman Analysis and a Bernoulli Approach . . . . . . . . . . 1 Phillips Edomwonyi Obasohan Comparing Weighted Markov Chain and Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average in the Prediction of Under-5 Mortality Annual Closing Rates in Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Eman Khorsheed The Impact of Women Parliamentarians on Economic Growth: Modelling & Statistical Analysis of Empirical Global Data . . . 23 Gholamhossein G. Hamedani and Shirin Nezampour Characterizations of Exponentiated Generalized Power Lindley and Geometric-Zero Truncated Poisson Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Guerrero-Escamilla Juan Bacilio and Lopez-Perez Socrates and Jiménez-Proa Erik Gerardo Gaussian Model to Predict the Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Mexican Population Taking as a Reference Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Morteza Marzjarani A Comparison of a General Linear Model and the Ratio Estimator . . . . . . . . 54 Abdulwahab Almutairi Combined Nearest Greedy Algorithm With Randomized Iterated Greedy Algorithm to Solve Waste Collection Problem . . . . . 66 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Mihnea S. Andrei and John S. J. Hsu A Bayesian Approach for Asset Allocation 1 Fastel Chipepa and Broderick Oluyede and Boikanyo Makubate The Topp--Leone Marshall--Olkin-$G$ Family of Distributions With Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Peter Emeda Tengaa and Samuel Mwalili and George Otieno Orwa Stochastic Modeling for HIV and AIDS Epidemics With Viral Load Detectability 33 Hua He and Xuenan Mi and Jerry Cornell and Wan Tang and Tanika Kelly and Hui Shen and Hongwen Deng and Yan Du Statistical Issues on Analysis of Censored Data Due to Detection Limit . . 49 André Beauducel and Norbert Hilger Overcoming Limitations of the Independent Clusters Model for CFA by Means of Bayes-Estimation and Buffered Simple Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Richa Sharma and Ajay Pandey Does Higher Percentages of Women With Higher Education Within District Impacts Individuals Use of Contraception in Uttar Pradesh? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Mohammed Mohammed Ahmed Almazah Estimation of the Parameters for the Exponentiated Weibull Distribution Based on Progressive Type-II Censoring Scheme 1 Saeed E. Hemeda and Ali M. Abdallah Sinh Inverted Exponential Distribution: Simulation & Application to Neck Cancer Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Dan Liu and Yuan Du and Yasin Khadem Charvadeh and Jingyu Cui and Li-Pang Chen and Gansen Deng and Qihuang Zhang and Kaida Cai and Joy He and Wenqing He and Grace Y. Yi A Real Time and Interactive Web-Based Platform for Visualizing and Analyzing COVID-19 in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Khairul Islam and Tanweer J. Shapla A New Transformed t-test for Skewed Data: a Goodness-of-fit Approach . . . . 30 Eunji Lim and Kihwan Kim Estimating Smooth and Convex Functions 40 Juan Bacilio Guerrero Escamilla and Sócrates López Pérez and Sonia Bass Zavala Logistic Model to Predict the Contagion of COVID-19 in Mexico . . . . . . . . . 49 Karim Azumah and Ananda Omutokoh Kube and Bashiru Imoro Ibn Saeed Functional Time Series Analysis of Land Surface Temperature . . . . . . . . . . 61 Emilly A. Obuya and Prakash C. Joshi and Thomas A. Gray and Thomas C. Keane and Wayne E. Jones Jr Revisit the Wishart Distributionm . . . 79 Argyrios Kalampakas and Georgios C. Makris Statistical Analysis to Bitcoin Transactions Network . . . . . . . . . . 85 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Rufin Bidounga and Evrand Giles Brunel Mandangui Maloumbi and Réolie Foxie Mizélé Kitoti and Dominique Miz\`ere The New Bivariate Conway--Maxwell--Poisson Distribution Obtained by the Crossing Method . . . . 1 Dong-yun Kim and Yanhong Wu Confidence Interval for Change Point in Hazard Rate With Staggered Entry . . . . 9 Venkata Mallipaddi and Michael Anderson Evaluating Safety of Type-A Weaving Sections Using Geometric and Traffic Operational Factors . . . . . . . . . . 21 Toru Ogura and Takatoshi Sugiyama and Nariaki Sugiura Estimation of the Shape Parameter of a Wear-Out Failure Period for a Three-Parameter Weibull Distribution in a Small Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Yogesh Agrawal and Faisal Kaleem and David Hare An Introduction to Sequential Pentuals 49 Mizuki Onozawa and Ayaka Yagi and Takashi Seo New Test Statistics for One and Two Mean Vectors with Two-step Monotone Missing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Victorien F. Konane and Ali Traore Statistical Modeling and Forecast of the Corona-Virus Disease (COVID-19) in Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 A. A. Ogunde and S. T. Fayose and B. Ajayi and D. O. Omosigho Properties, Inference and Applications of Alpha Power Extended Inverted Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Phil D. Young and Joshua D. Patrick and Dean M. Young Two Explicit Characterizations of the General Nonnegative-Definite Covariance Matrix Structure for Equality of BLUEs, WLSEs, and LSEs . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Meilina Retno Hapsari and Suci Astutik and Loekito Adi Soehono Estimation of VECM Parameter Using Bayesian Approach: an Application to Analysis of Macroeconomic Variables . . 113 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 9, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Amadou Sawadogo and Dominique Lafon and Simplice Dossou-Gbété On the Classification of Colored Textures From a Texture-Ranking Experiment: Observers Ability of Discrimination Quantification . . . . . 1 John Tenenholtz and Florence George and Sneh Gulati Some Multiple Regression Models for the Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Tomoshige Nakamura and Mihoko Minami Causal Subclassification Tree Algorithm and Robust Causal Effect Estimation via Subclassification . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Mihnea S. Andrei and John S. J. Hsu A Bayesian Approach for Large Asset Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Eunji Lim Consistency of Penalized Convex Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Caroline Kellner and Lieven Nils Kennes Decision Criteria During Joint Modelling of Efficacy and Safety With MCP-Mod . . 79 Mohammad Ibrahim Ahmmad Soliman Gaafar An Empirical Evaluation of a Test Procedure for the Median of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Populations Using an Interpolated Nonparametric Confidence Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Mihnea S. Andrei and Sujit K. Ghosh and Jian Zou Dynamic Correlation Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Black-Litterman With Latent Factors . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ben Kiprono Koech Estimation of Receiver Operating Characteristic Surface Using Mixtures of Finite Polya Trees (MFPT) . . . . . . . 18 Ge Song and Jiahui Yuan and Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji Application of Gibbs Sampling in Modelling the Utilization Rate of Raw Materials for Drug Coating . . . . . . . 28 Ngigi Peter Kung'u and J. K. Arap Koske and Josphat K. Kinyanjui $A$-Optimal Slope Design for Second Degree Kronecker Model Mixture Experiment With Four Ingredients With Application in Selected Fruits Blending 36 Alessandro Magrini Efficient Decomposition of Bayesian Networks With Non-graded Variables . . . 52 Juan Bacilio Guerrero Escamilla and Arquímedes Avilés Vargas Cross-Sectional and Time Series Data as the Basis for Panel Modelling: The Case of Kidnappings in México From 2010 to 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Jai Won Choi and Balgobin Nandram Large Sample Problems . . . . . . . . . 81 Hamdy F. F. Mahmoud Parametric Versus Semi and Nonparametric Regression Models . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Ruy Lopez-Rios A $Q$-learning Approach to a Consumption--Investment Problem . . . . 110 Boikanyo Makubate and Fastel Chipepa and Broderick Oluyede and Peter O. Peter The Marshall--Olkin Half Logistic-G Family of Distributions With Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 A. R. Abdul-Aziz and Albert Luguterah and Bashiru I. I. Saeed Comparative Performance of Estimation Maximization Among Residual Estimators: a Structural Equation Modelling Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Chuanhua Wei and Xiaoxiao Ma Empirical Likelihood Ratio Test for Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models 1 Adebisi Ade Ogunde and Gbenga Adelekan Olalude and Oyebimpe Emmanuel Adeniji and Kayode Balogun Lehmann Type II Frechet Poisson Distribution: Properties, Inference and Applications as a Life Time Distribution 8 Lucila Muniz Merino and Bulmaro Juarez Hernandez and Hugo A. Cruz Suarez Analysis of Change Points With Bayes Factor, Thresholds, and CUSUM . . . . . 31 Muhammad Z. Arshad and Muhammad Z. Iqbal and Alya Al Mutairi Statistical Properties of a New Bathtub Shaped Failure Rate Model With Applications in Survival and Failure Rate Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Lu Qin and Jihong Zhang and Xinya Liang and Qianqian Pan $R$-squared of a Latent Interaction in Structural Equation Model: a Tutorial of Using R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Qun Shi Generalized Mean-Field Fractional BSDEs With Non-Lipschitz Coefficients . . . . 77 Abdisalam Hassan Muse and Samuel M. Mwalili and Oscar Ngesa On the Log-Logistic Distribution and Its Generalizations: a Survey . . . . . . . 93 Moshe Kelner and Zinoviy Landsman and Udi E. Makov Compound Archimedean Copulas . . . . . . 126 Hejie Lin and Tsung-Wu Lin Mechanical Proof of the Maxwell--Boltzmann Speed Distribution With Analytical Integration . . . . . . 135 Olanrewaju Davies Eniade and Joshua Odunayo Akinyemi and Oyindamola Bidemi Yusuf and Rotimi Felix. Afolabi and Olufunmilayo I. Fawole Effect of Education on Attitude Towards Domestic Violence in Nigeria: an Exploration Using Propensity Score Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
A. Nanthakumar A Diagnostic Test Based on a $9$-Component Mixture Gaussian Copula Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Nanthakumar A Diagnostic Test Based on a 9-Component Mixture Gaussian Copula Model . . . . . 1 A. H. Nzokem SIS Epidemic Model Birth-and-Death Markov Chain Approach . . . . . . . . . 10 Hejie Lin and Tsung-Wu Lin Mechanical Proof of the Maxwell--Boltzmann Speed Distribution With Numerical Iterations . . . . . . . 21 Boikanyo Makubate and Broderick Oluyede and Morongwa Gabanakgosi A New Lindley-Burr XII Distribution: Model, Properties and Applications . . . 33 Sanjida Tasnim Use of Shape Restricted Regression Methods for Fitting Model of Per Capita GDP: a Global Economic Scenario of 2018 52 Ouindllassida Jean-Etienne Ou'edraogo and Edoh Katchekpele and Simplice Dossou-Gb'et'e Marginalized Maximum Likelihood for Parameters Estimation of the Three Parameter Weibull Distribution . . . . . 62 Adebisi Ade Ogunde and Victoria Eshomomoh Laoye and Ogbonnaya Nzie Ezichi and Kayode Oguntuase Balogun Harris Extended Power Lomax Distribution: Properties, Inference and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Cristie Diego Pimenta and Messias Borges Silva and Fernando Augusto Silva Marins and Aneirson Francisco da Silva Application of Statistical Monitoring Using Autocorrelated Data and With the Influence of Multicollinearity in a Steel Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Mosisa Aga Edgeworth Expansion for the Whittle Maximum Likelihood Estimator of Linear Regression Processes with Long Memory Residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Khairul Islam and Tanweer J. Shapla Application of Discrete Regression Models for Analyzing K--8 Students Nonchronic Absenteeism in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Alessandro Magrini A Stochastic Frontier Model to Assess Agricultural Eco-efficiency of European Countries in 1990--2019 . . . . . . . . 138 Chedly Gelin Louzayadio and Rodnellin Onesime Malouata and Michel Diafouka Koukouatikissa A Weighted Poisson Distribution for Underdispersed Count Data . . . . . . . 157 David Hertz Unified Approach to Probability Problems and Estimation Algorithms Associated With Symmetric Functions . . . . . . . . 166 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Mohamed S. A. Muiftah and Samir K. Ashour Estimation of the Parameters of Type-II Discrete Weibull Distribution Under Type-I Censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Moshe Kelner and Zinoviy Landsman and Udi E. Makov Fitting Compound Archimedean Copulas to Data for Modeling Electricity Demand . . 20 David Hertz Improved Hoeffding's Lemma and Hoeffding's Tail Bounds . . . . . . . . 27 Eunji Lim Simulation-Based Optimization for Convex Functions Over Discrete Sets . . . . . . 31 Wei Chen and Fengling Ren Bootstrap Based Confidence Interval Estimation of Quantiles for Current Status Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Andrey Davydenko and Paul Goodwin Assessing Point Forecast Bias Across Multiple Time Series: Measures and Visual Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Stephen M. Mbunzi and Joseph K. Mungatu and Anthony G. Waititu and Samuel M. Mwalili and Kenneth O. Ogila and Thomas N. O. Achia and Daniel Nthiwa Severity of Infestation Levels of \bionameTunga Penetrans in Central Kenya: a Bayesian Cumulative Logit Model 70 Xiaoming Wang and Sukun Wang and Warren Kindzierski Control of Weekly Time Trend in Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Design 85 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Zadan P. H. Mason and Mahrokh Najaf Characterizations of the Exponentiated Marshall--Olkin Discrete Uniform Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Balgobin Nandram and Jai Won Choi and Yang Liu Integration of Nonprobability and Probability Samples via Survey Weights 5 Fahad Aldossary and Tamer Abouelmagd and A. A. E. Ahmed A Unified General Class of Interdistributional Income Inequality Measures Based on Weighted Incomplete Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Raid Al-Aqtash and Avishek Mallick and G. G. Hamedani and Mahmoud Aldeni On the Gumbel--Burr XII Distribution: Regression and Application . . . . . . . 31 Ndubano Mafale and Dismas Ntirampeba and Jacob Ong'ala Multidimensional Poverty Modeling for Namibia Using the Beta Distribution . . 47 Basri Badyalina and Ani Shabri and Nurkhairany Amyra Mokhtar and Mohamad Faizal Ramli and Muhammad Majid and Muhammad Yassar Yusri Modified Group Method of Data Handling for Flood Quantile Prediction at Ungauged Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Oluwole A. Nuga and Abba Zakirai Abdulhamid and Shobanke Emmanuel Omobola Kayode $D$-Optimal Split-plot Designs With Random Whole Plot Factor and Fixed Sub-plot Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jemilohun Vincent Gbenga and Ipinyomi Reuben Adeyemi Alpha Power Extended Inverse Weibull Poisson Distribution: Properties, Inference, and Applications to lifetime data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Yu Hang Jiang and Tong Liu and Zhiya Lou and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Shanshan Shangguan and Fei Wang and Zixuan Wu Markov Chain Confidence Intervals and Biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Takatoshi Sugiyama and Toru Ogura Parameters Estimation for Wear-out Failure Period of Three-Parameter Weibull Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 40 Ajay Pandey and Richa Sharma Age at First Birth in Uttar Pradesh: How Much Has It Actually Changed? Over Inter-NFHS Period? . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Ashwannie Harripersaud Demystifying the Concept of Probability 1 Jemilohun Vincent Gbenga and Ipinyomi Reuben Adeyemi Alpha Power Poisson-G Distribution With an Application to Burr II Distribution Lifetime Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Alya Al Mutairi and Muhammad Z. Arshad A New Odd Fréchet Lehmann Type II-G Family of Distributions: a Power Function Distribution With Theory and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Rand R. Wilcox Inferences About a Quantile Shift Measure of Effect Size When There Is a Covariate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 S. Stanley Young and Kai-Chieh Cheng and Jin Hua Chen and Shu-Chuan Chen and Warren B. Kindzierski Reliability of a Meta-analysis of Air Quality-Asthma Cohort Studies . . . . . 61 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Toru Ogura and Chihiro Shiraishi Cutoff Value for Wilcoxon--Mann--Whitney Test by Minimum $P$-value: Application to COVID-19 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jie Huang and Haiming Zhou and Nader Ebrahimi Bayesian Bivariate Cure Rate Models Using Copula Functions . . . . . . . . . 9 Smart Asomaning Sarpong and Akwasi Agyei Interactions Between Water Level, Crude Oil, and Hydroelectric Power Generation in Ghana; A Structured Vector Auto Regression Approach . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh and Doaa Suhail Obeidat Approximation of the Binomial Probability Function Using the Discrete Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 32 S. Stanley Young and Warren B. Kindzierski Statistical Reliability of a Diet-Disease Association Meta-analysis 40 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
William Angko and Joseph Kwame Wulifan Demographic Effects on Fertility Among Reproductive Aged Women in Ghana. A Demographic and Health Survey Analysis 1 A. Nanthakumar A Comparison of Vine and Hierarchical Copulas as Discriminants . . . . . . . . 13 Emily Nystrom and Julia L. Sharp and William C. Bridges, Jr. Using Residual Plots to Distinguish Cases of Predictor Omission in Linear Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Okechukwu Bridget Nwanyibuife and Okechukwu Angela Unna and Amahia Godwin Nwanzu Zero Truncated Poisson Harris Weibull Distribution: Properties and Applications to Lifetime Datas . . . . . 37 Ikpang Nkereuwem Ikpang and Ekom-obong Jackson Okon Modeling Average Rainfall in Nigeria With Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Models and Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Florence George and Sultana Mubarika Rahman Chowdhury and Sneh Gulati Application of Logistic Regression on Heart Disease Data and a Review of Some Standardization Methods . . . . . . . . 1 Nor Hidayah Hassim and Basri Badyalina and Nurkhairany Amyra Mokhtar and Muhammad Zulqarnain Hakim Abd Jalal and Nur Diana Binti Zamani and Lee Chang Kerk and Amir Imran Zainoddin and Ahmad Syahmi Ahmad Fadzil and Nur Fatihah Shaari In Situ Flood Frequency Analysis Used for Water Resource Management in Kelantan River Basin . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vanderly Janeiro and Robson Marcelo Rossi and Terezinha Aparecida Guedes and Ana Beatriz Tozzo Martins and Lucimary Afonso dos Santos Nonlinear Mixed Models Applied to Ruminal Degradability Studies . . . . . 18 Smart Asomaning Sarpong and Akwasi Agyei Forecasting Hydropower Generation in Ghana Using ARIMA Models . . . . . . . . 30 Kiyotaka Iki and Sadao Tomizawa Parsimonious Bivariate $T$-distribution Type Symmetry Models for Square Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
André Beauducel and Norbert Hilger Correlation-Preserving Mean Plausible Values as a Basis for Prediction in the Context of Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jai Won Choi and Balgobin Nandram and Boseung Choi Combining Correlated P-values From Primary Data Analyses . . . . . . . . . 12 Dimuthu Fernando and Mohammed Alqawba and Manar Samad and Norou Diawara Review of Copula for Bivariate Distributions of Zero-Inflated Count Time Series Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Lucia V. P. Torres and Juan B. Guerrero Escamilla Simple Sampling for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hidalgo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Dalia Ziedan and Ayman Orabi E-Bayesian Estimation for the Inverted Topp--Leone Distribution Based on Type-II Censored Data . . . . . . . . . 52 Yusra A. Tashkandy Negative Binomial and Geometric; Bivariate and Difference Distributions 60 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Rand R. Wilcox and Lai Xu Regression: Identifying Good and Bad Leverage Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M. Seham and I. B. Omnia On the Mixture of Topp--Leone-G Class and Exponentiated-G Class of Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Kexuan Li Variable Selection for Nonlinear Cox Regression Model via Deep Learning . . . 21 Lingli Yang and Balgobin Nandram and Jai Won Choi Bayesian Predictive Inference Under Nine Methods for Incorporating Survey Weights 33 S. Stanley Young and Warren B. Kindzierski Reproducibility of Health Claims in Meta-Analysis Studies of COVID Quarantine (Stay-at-Home) Orders . . . . 54 Wendy Smith Reviewer Acknowledgements for \booktitleInternational Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 12, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66