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Volume 1, Number 1, 2012
Volume 1, Number 2, 2012
Volume 2, Number 1, 2013
Volume 2, Number 2, 2013
Volume 2, Number 3, 2013
Volume 2, Number 4, 2013
Volume 3, Number 1, 2014
Volume 3, Number 2, 2014
Volume 3, Number 3, 2014
Volume 3, Number 4, 2014
Volume 4, Number 1, 2015
Volume 4, Number 2, 2015
Volume 4, Number 3, 2015
Volume 4, Number 4, 2015
Volume 5, Number 1, 2016
Volume 5, Number 2, 2016
Volume 5, Number 3, 2016
Volume 5, Number 4, 2016
Volume 5, Number 5, 2016
Volume 5, Number 6, 2016
Volume 6, Number 1, 2017
Volume 6, Number 2, 2017
Volume 6, Number 3, 2017
Volume 6, Number 4, 2017
Volume 6, Number 5, 2017
Volume 6, Number 6, 2017
Volume 7, Number 1, 2018
Volume 7, Number 2, 2018
Volume 7, Number 3, 2018
Volume 7, Number 4, 2018
Volume 7, Number 5, 2018
Volume 7, Number 6, 2018
Volume 8, Number 1, 2019
Volume 8, Number 2, 2019
Volume 8, Number 3, 2019
Volume 8, Number 4, 2019
Volume 8, Number 5, 2019
Volume 8, Number 6, 2019
Volume 9, Number 1, 2020
Volume 9, Number 2, 2020
Volume 9, Number 3, 2020
Volume 9, Number 4, 2020
Volume 9, Number 5, 2020
Volume 9, Number 6, 2020
Volume 10, Number 1, 2021
Volume 10, Number 2, 2021
Volume 10, Number 3, 2021
Volume 10, Number 4, 2021
Volume 10, Number 5, 2021
Volume 10, Number 6, 2021
Volume 11, Number 1, 2022
Volume 11, Number 2, 2022
Volume 11, Number 3, 2022
Volume 11, Number 4, 2022
Volume 11, Number 5, 2022
Volume 11, Number 6, 2022
Volume 12, Number 1, 2023


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 1, Number 1, 2012

          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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 1, Number 2, 2012

                  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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 2, Number 1, 2013

   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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 2, Number 2, 2013

            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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 2, Number 3, 2013

          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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 2, Number 4, 2013

          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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 3, Number 1, 2014

          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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 3, Number 2, 2014

            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
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                                  2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 3, Number 3, 2014

                      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
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International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 3, Number 4, 2014

            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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 4, Number 1, 2015

           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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 4, Number 2, 2015

         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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 4, Number 3, 2015

                  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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 4, Number 4, 2015

                   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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 1, 2016

          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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 2, 2016

                    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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 3, 2016

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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 4, 2016

              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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 5, 2016

             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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 5, Number 6, 2016

                    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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 1, 2017

               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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 2, 2017

               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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 3, 2017

                  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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 4, 2017

               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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 5, 2017

       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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 6, Number 6, 2017

                 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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 1, 2018

        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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 2, 2018

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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 3, 2018

              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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 4, 2018

                     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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 5, 2018

             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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 7, Number 6, 2018

                  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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 1, 2019

             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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 2, 2019

           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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 3, 2019

         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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 4, 2019

         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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 5, 2019

             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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 8, Number 6, 2019

             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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 1, 2020

             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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 2, 2020

               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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 3, 2020

              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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 4, 2020

           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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 5, 2020

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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 9, Number 6, 2020

             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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 1, 2021

            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
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                                  Statistics and Probability, Vol. 10, No.
                                  1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 2, 2021

           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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 3, 2021

               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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 4, 2021

                 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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 5, 2021

      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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 10, Number 6, 2021

          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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 1, 2022

            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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 2, 2022

         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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 3, 2022

                 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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 4, 2022

              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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 5, 2022

            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

International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 11, Number 6, 2022

     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


International Journal of Statistics and Probability
Volume 12, Number 1, 2023

             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