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1 Citations
1,760 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2023

This article focuses on the interval estimation of the generalized Rayleigh distribution with scale and shape parameters. The generalized fiducial method is used to construct the fiducial point estimators as well as the fiducial confidence intervals,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,323 Views
22 Pages

18 April 2021

In this article, a new four-parameter lifetime model called the beta generalized inverse Rayleigh distribution (BGIRD) is defined and studied. Mixture representation of this model is derived. Curve’s behavior of probability density function, reliabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,770 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2023

This paper investigates the problem of entropy estimation for the generalized Rayleigh distribution under progressively type-II censored samples. Based on progressively type-II censored samples, we first discuss the maximum likelihood estimation and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
38 Pages

The Four-Parameter Odd Generalized Rayleigh Lomax Distribution: Theory, Simulation, and Applications

  • Alaa A. Khalaf,
  • Ahmed R. El-Saeed,
  • Mundher A. Khaleel and
  • Ahlam H. Tolba

29 January 2026

The fundamental problem with current Rayleigh-Lomax-based distributions lies in their limited flexibility to model both symmetry and tail weight simultaneously. Therefore, this study aims to introduce the OGRLx anomalous general distribution as an in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,113 Views
15 Pages

1 July 2014

In this paper, based on a doubly generalized Type II censored sample, the maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs), the approximate MLE and the Bayes estimator for the entropy of the Rayleigh distribution are derived. We compare the entropy estimators’ r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,522 Views
15 Pages

24 May 2024

This paper explores the likelihood and Bayesian estimation of the stress–strength reliability parameter (R) based on a lower record ranked set sampling scheme from the generalized Rayleigh distribution. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,048 Views
18 Pages

A Generalized Rayleigh Family of Distributions Based on the Modified Slash Model

  • Inmaculada Barranco-Chamorro,
  • Yuri A. Iriarte,
  • Yolanda M. Gómez,
  • Juan M. Astorga and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

8 July 2021

Specifying a proper statistical model to represent asymmetric lifetime data with high kurtosis is an open problem. In this paper, the three-parameter, modified, slashed, generalized Rayleigh family of distributions is proposed. Its structural propert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,773 Views
28 Pages

23 April 2021

An efficient empirical statistical method is developed to improve the process of mineral resource estimation of seabed polymetallic nodules and is applied to analyze the abundance of seabed polymetallic nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,436 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2019

In the modeling of successive arrival times with a monotone trend, the alpha-series process provides quite successful results. Both selecting the distribution of the first arrival time and making an optimal statistical inference play a crucial role i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,476 Views
23 Pages

5 January 2024

Various discrete lifetime distributions have been observed in real data analysis. Numerous discrete models have been derived from a continuous distribution using the survival discretization method, owing to its simplicity and appealing formulation. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,423 Views
30 Pages

26 August 2024

This study investigates the statistical inference of the parameters, reliability function, and hazard function of the generalized Rayleigh distribution under progressive first-failure censoring samples, considering factors such as long product lifeti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,665 Views
24 Pages

20 May 2024

In this paper, we introduce a new three-parameter inverse Rayleigh distribution that extends the inverse Rayleigh distribution, constructed based on the generalized transmuted family of distributions proposed by Alizadeh, Merovci, and Hamedani. We ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,814 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2021

Inference is investigated for a multicomponent stress-strength reliability (MSR) under Type-II censoring when the latent failure times follow two-parameter Rayleigh distribution. With a context that the lifetimes of the strength and stress variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,950 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2020

In this article, we introduce a new probability distribution generator called the Lambert-F generator. For any continuous baseline distribution F, with positive support, the corresponding Lambert-F version is generated by using the new generator. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
327 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2026

Statistical distributions play a crucial role in analyzing real data with varying behavior. In this study, the exponentiated generalized Weibull-G family is discretized using the survival discretization method. Furthermore, a three-parameter discrete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
291 Views
46 Pages

7 January 2026

The analysis of road traffic accidents often reveals asymmetric patterns, providing insights that support the development of preventive measures, reduce fatalities, and improve road safety interventions. The Rayleigh distribution, a continuous distri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
218 Views
24 Pages

5 February 2026

This paper develops simultaneous confidence intervals (SCIs) for pairwise differences of means with zero-inflated Rayleigh (ZIR) distributions, a flexible framework for modeling positively skewed data with excess zeros. Closed-form expressions for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,559 Views
26 Pages

Techno-Economic Feasibility Study of Small Wind Turbines in the Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area

  • Osvaldo Rodriguez-Hernandez,
  • Manuel Martinez,
  • Carlos Lopez-Villalobos,
  • Hector Garcia and
  • Rafael Campos-Amezcua

7 March 2019

The use of small wind turbines (SWTs) is an alternative energy strategy with increasing potential for satisfying in situ electrical demands and should be studied to promote social penetration. The Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area (VMMA) has air pol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,315 Views
22 Pages

3 March 2020

A new compound non-symmetric distribution for modeling arbitrary fading-shadowing wireless channels is introduced and studied here. This distribution has some advantages in front of other well-known non-symmetric fading distributions such as the Rayl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,677 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2017

A theoretical model, along with experimental verification, is developed to describe the generation, propagation and reception of a Rayleigh wave using angle beam wedge transducers. The Rayleigh wave generation process using an angle beam wedge transd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2025

The Rician distribution, which arises in radar, communications, and magnetic resonance imaging, is characterized by a noncentrality parameter and a scale parameter. The Rayleigh distribution is a special case of the Rician distribution with a noncent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,277 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2024

In this study, we introduce two novel discrete counterparts for the Rayleigh–Lindley mixture, constructed through the application of survival and hazard rate preservation techniques. These two-parameter discrete models demonstrate exceptional a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,481 Views
22 Pages

Scale Mixture of Rayleigh Distribution

  • Pilar A. Rivera,
  • Inmaculada Barranco-Chamorro,
  • Diego I. Gallardo and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

20 October 2020

In this paper, the scale mixture of Rayleigh (SMR) distribution is introduced. It is proven that this new model, initially defined as the quotient of two independent random variables, can be expressed as a scale mixture of a Rayleigh and a particular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
891 Views
31 Pages

1 July 2025

This paper introduces the record-based transmuted Rayleigh distribution of order 3 (rbt-R), a three-parameter extension of the classical Rayleigh model designed to address data characterized by high skewness and heavy tails. While traditional general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,841 Views
12 Pages

Development of Maximum Residual Stress Prediction Technique for Shot-Peened Specimen Using Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Data Based on Convolutional Neural Network

  • Yeong-Won Choi,
  • Taek-Gyu Lee,
  • Yun-Taek Yeom,
  • Sung-Duk Kwon,
  • Hun-Hee Kim,
  • Kee-Young Lee,
  • Hak-Joon Kim and
  • Sung-Jin Song

28 November 2023

Shot peening is a surface treatment process that improves the fatigue life of a material and suppresses cracks by generating residual stress on the surface. The injected small shots create a compressive residual stress layer on the material’s s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,324 Views
14 Pages

Generation Mechanism of Nonlinear Rayleigh Surface Waves for Randomly Distributed Surface Micro-Cracks

  • Xiangyan Ding,
  • Feilong Li,
  • Youxuan Zhao,
  • Yongmei Xu,
  • Ning Hu,
  • Peng Cao and
  • Mingxi Deng

23 April 2018

This paper investigates the propagation of Rayleigh surface waves in structures with randomly distributed surface micro-cracks using numerical simulations. The results revealed a significant ultrasonic nonlinear effect caused by the surface micro-cra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,541 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2018

For secure transmission of low cost single antenna communication nodes in wireless crowdsensing networks under static channel, a physical layer communication scheme is proposed, where each digital modulated symbol is encrypted by a random key at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
22 Pages

18 December 2025

This study investigates natural convection in porous media under non-standard asymmetric boundary conditions, focusing on flow and heat transfer. Numerical simulations were performed to analyze flow patterns, temperature distributions, and heat trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,818 Views
26 Pages

25 January 2022

This paper proposes the Compound Inverse Rayleigh distribution as a proper model for the characterization of the probability distribution of extreme values of wind-speed. This topic is gaining interest in the field of renewable generation, from the v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,627 Views
10 Pages

22 November 2019

The study utilizes the energy-flux-vector method to analyze the heat transfer characteristics of natural convection in a wavy-wall porous square cavity with a partially-heated bottom surface. The effects of the modified Darcy number, modified Rayleig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,136 Views
13 Pages

30 August 2017

Entropy generation in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection at different Prandtl number (Pr) are investigated in the present paper by using the lattice Boltzmann Method. The major concern of the present paper is to explore the effects of Pr on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
763 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2025

The Rayleigh distribution is a continuous probability distribution that is inherently asymmetric and commonly used to model right-skewed data. It holds significant importance across a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines and exhibits...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,582 Views
24 Pages

Statistical Inference of the Half-Logistic Inverse Rayleigh Distribution

  • Abdullah M. Almarashi,
  • Majdah M. Badr,
  • Mohammed Elgarhy,
  • Farrukh Jamal and
  • Christophe Chesneau

15 April 2020

The inverse Rayleigh distribution finds applications in many lifetime studies, but has not enough overall flexibility to model lifetime phenomena where moderately right-skewed or near symmetrical data are observed. This paper proposes a solution by i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,114 Views
23 Pages

Parametric Distributions for Survival and Reliability Analyses, a Review and Historical Sketch

  • Nanami Taketomi,
  • Kazuki Yamamoto,
  • Christophe Chesneau and
  • Takeshi Emura

21 October 2022

During its 330 years of history, parametric distributions have been useful for survival and reliability analyses. In this paper, we comprehensively review the historical backgrounds and statistical properties of a number of parametric distributions u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,041 Views
16 Pages

5 July 2017

Natural convection heat transfer combined with entropy generation in a square cavity filled with a nanofluid under the effect of variable temperature distribution along left vertical wall has been studied numerically. Governing equations formulated i...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,921 Views
10 Pages

Stable Triple-Wavelength Random Fiber Laser Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings

  • Airull Azizi Awang Lah,
  • Abdul Hadi Sulaiman,
  • Fairuz Abdullah,
  • Sumiaty Ambran,
  • Eng Khoon Ng,
  • Mohammed Thamer Alresheedi,
  • Mohd Adzir Mahdi and
  • Nelidya Md Yusoff

11 August 2023

We demonstrate a generation of three lasing wavelengths with the assistance of Rayleigh backscattering as the stabilizer of peak power variations. The proposed laser consists of a combination of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and erbium-do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,693 Views
11 Pages

Distributed Impact Wave Detection in Steel I-Beam with a Weak Fiber Bragg Gratings Array

  • Yuan Wang,
  • Neil A. Hoult,
  • Joshua E. Woods,
  • Hannah Kassenaar and
  • Xiaoyi Bao

15 February 2023

In this paper, acoustic, dynamic and static strain variations along a steel I-beam generated by an impact load are reconstructed simultaneously within a single measurement. Based on the chirped pulse φ-OTDR system with the single-shot measurement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,472 Views
16 Pages

Entropy Optimization, Maxwell–Boltzmann, and Rayleigh Distributions

  • Nicy Sebastian,
  • Arak M. Mathai and
  • Hans J. Haubold

15 June 2021

In physics, communication theory, engineering, statistics, and other areas, one of the methods of deriving distributions is the optimization of an appropriate measure of entropy under relevant constraints. In this paper, it is shown that by optimizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,674 Views
11 Pages

Random Raman Lasing in Diode-Pumped Multi-Mode Graded-Index Fiber with Femtosecond Laser-Inscribed Random Refractive Index Structures of Various Shapes

  • Alexey G. Kuznetsov,
  • Zhibzema E. Munkueva,
  • Alexandr V. Dostovalov,
  • Alexey Y. Kokhanovskiy,
  • Polina A. Elizarova,
  • Ilya N. Nemov,
  • Alexandr A. Revyakin,
  • Denis S. Kharenko and
  • Sergey A. Babin

18 October 2024

Diode-pumped multi-mode graded-index (GRIN) fiber Raman lasers provide prominent brightness enhancement both in linear and half-open cavities with random distributed feedback via natural Rayleigh backscattering. Femtosecond laser-inscribed random ref...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,648 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2020

The research on the propagation of surface waves has received considerable attention in order to improve the efficiency and natural life of the surface acoustic wave devices, but the investigation on complex Rayleigh waves in functionally graded piez...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,829 Views
24 Pages

Principle of Least Effort and Sentence Length in Public Speaking

  • Natalia L. Tsizhmovska and
  • Leonid M. Martyushev

8 August 2021

The analysis of sentence lengths in the inaugural speeches of US presidents and the annual speeches of UK party leaders is carried out. Transcripts of the speeches are used, rather than the oral production. It is discovered that the average sentence...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,773 Views
44 Pages

17 March 2023

This paper studies the properties of the Preisach model and the play model, and compare their similarities. Both are history-dependent hysteresis models that are used to model magnetic hysteresis. They are described as discrete sums of simple hystere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,572 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2021

The aim of the article is presentation of the testing methodology and results of examination the probabilistic model of the measurement process. The case study concerns the determination of the risk of an incorrect decision in the assessment of the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,768 Views
24 Pages

8 October 2023

This study examines all of the equations necessary to derive the parameters for seven probability distributions of three parameters typically used in flood frequency research, namely the Pearson III (PE3), the generalized extreme value (GEV), the Wei...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,903 Views
11 Pages

Stellar Turbulent Convection: The Multiscale Nature of the Solar Magnetic Signature

  • Stefano Scardigli,
  • Francesco Berrilli,
  • Dario Del Moro and
  • Luca Giovannelli

22 July 2021

The multiscale dynamics associated with turbulent convection present in physical systems governed by very high Rayleigh numbers still remains a vividly disputed topic in the community of astrophysicists, and in general, among physicists dealing with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,294 Views
17 Pages

Gaussian Mixture Model for Marine Reverberations

  • Tongjing Sun,
  • Yabin Wen,
  • Xuegang Zhang,
  • Bing Jia and
  • Mengwei Zhou

6 November 2023

Ocean reverberations, a significant interference source in active sonar, arise as a response generated by random scattering at the receiving end, a consequence of randomly distributed clutter or irregular interfaces. Statistical analysis of reverbera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,801 Views
18 Pages

10 July 2019

A competing risks model under progressively type II censored data following the Rayleigh distribution is considered. We establish the maximum likelihood estimation for unknown parameters and compute the observed information matrix and the expected Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,359 Views
11 Pages

Machine Learning Estimation of the Phase at the Fading Points of an OFDR-Based Distributed Sensor

  • Arman Aitkulov,
  • Leonardo Marcon,
  • Alessandro Chiuso,
  • Luca Palmieri and
  • Andrea Galtarossa

27 December 2022

The paper reports a machine learning approach for estimating the phase in a distributed acoustic sensor implemented using optical frequency domain reflectometry, with enhanced robustness at the fading points. A neural network configuration was traine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,496 Views
16 Pages

15 October 2020

This paper attempts to estimate the parameters for the two-parameter Rayleigh distribution based on adaptive Type II progressive hybrid censored data with competing risks. Firstly, the maximum likelihood function and the maximum likelihood estimators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
3,993 Views
24 Pages

The Truncated Burr X-G Family of Distributions: Properties and Applications to Actuarial and Financial Data

  • Rashad A. R. Bantan,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Farrukh Jamal,
  • Ibrahim Elbatal and
  • Mohammed Elgarhy

21 August 2021

In this article, the “truncated-composed” scheme was applied to the Burr X distribution to motivate a new family of univariate continuous-type distributions, called the truncated Burr X generated family. It is mathematically simple and provides more...

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