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