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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,588 Views
11 Pages

31 January 2019

In this paper, based on Kou’s classical iterative methods with fifth-order of convergence, we propose new interval iterative methods for computing a real root of the nonlinear scalar equations. Some numerical experiments have executed with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,818 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2019

Cycle slip detection and repair are crucial for precise GPS-derived orbit determination of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. We present a new approach to detect and repair cycle slips for dual-frequency LEO satellite GPS observations. According t...

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  • Open Access
3,189 Views
15 Pages

Algorithm Analysis and Optimization of a Digital Image Correlation Method Using a Non-Probability Interval Multidimensional Parallelepiped Model

  • Xuedong Zhu,
  • Jianhua Liu,
  • Xiaohui Ao,
  • Huanxiong Xia,
  • Sihan Huang,
  • Lijian Zhu,
  • Xiaoqiang Li and
  • Changlin Du

6 October 2024

Digital image correlation (DIC), a widely used non-contact measurement technique, often requires empirical tuning of several algorithmic parameters to strike a balance between computational accuracy and efficiency. This paper introduces a novel uncer...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,520 Views
24 Pages

8 February 2021

Entropy measures the uncertainty associated with a random variable. It has important applications in cybernetics, probability theory, astrophysics, life sciences and other fields. Recently, many authors focused on the estimation of entropy with diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,258 Views
22 Pages

18 October 2024

The lifetime performance index (LPI) is an important metric for evaluating product quality, and research on the statistical inference of the LPI is of great significance. This paper discusses both the classical and Bayesian estimations of the LPI und...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,396 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2024

This paper investigates statistical methods for estimating unknown lifetime parameters using a progressive first-failure censoring dataset. The failure mode’s lifetime distribution is modeled by the odd-generalized-exponential–inverse-Wei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,945 Views
22 Pages

7 December 2022

A new three-parameter Type-II Lehmann Fréchet distribution (LFD-TII), as a reparameterized version of the Kumaraswamy–Fréchet distribution, is considered. In this study, using progressive Type-II censoring, different estimation me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,218 Views
19 Pages

Quantification of Uncertainties on the Critical Buckling Load of Columns under Axial Compression with Uncertain Random Materials

  • Hai-Bang Ly,
  • Christophe Desceliers,
  • Lu Minh Le,
  • Tien-Thinh Le,
  • Binh Thai Pham,
  • Long Nguyen-Ngoc,
  • Van Thuan Doan and
  • Minh Le

5 June 2019

This study is devoted to the modeling and simulation of uncertainties in the constitutive elastic properties of material constituting a circular column under axial compression. To this aim, a probabilistic model dedicated to the construction of posit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,294 Views
22 Pages

On the Theory of Methane Hydrate Decomposition in a One-Dimensional Model in Porous Sediments: Numerical Study

  • Ahmed K. Abu-Nab,
  • Alexander V. Koldoba,
  • Elena V. Koldoba,
  • Yury A. Poveshchenko,
  • Viktoriia O. Podryga,
  • Parvin I. Rahimly and
  • Ahmed E. Bakeer

9 January 2023

The purpose of this paper is to present a one-dimensional model that simulates the thermo-physical processes for methane hydrate decomposition in porous media. The mathematical model consists of equations for the conservation of energy, gas, and liqu...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,731 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2023

Based on a composited Newton–Cotes formula, this paper proposes a numerical method to predict milling stability considering regenerative chatter and focusing on rate and prediction accuracy. First, the dynamic model of milling motion is express...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,634 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2023

In many engineering applications, it is often the case that the observations are only available in interval form. In this note, by using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, the parameter estimation of the Weibull distribution with interval-c...

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  • Open Access
1,826 Views
19 Pages

This study investigates the biodistribution of polysaccharide-based nanoparticles loaded with epirubicin (POLEPI) compared to epirubicin hydrochloride (EPI) in naïve female nude mice following a single intravenous dose. The inherent fluorescence...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,184 Views
30 Pages

26 April 2025

The Lomax distribution has important applications in survival analysis, reliability engineering, insurance, finance, and other fields. Middle-censoring is an important censoring scheme, and data with middle-censoring will produce censoring in random...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,108 Views
20 Pages

28 September 2022

The weighted exponential distribution is a promising skewed distribution in the life-testing experiment. The joint progressive type-II censoring (JPC) scheme is an effective approach to reducing costs. In this paper, we consider the estimates of para...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,938 Views
29 Pages

Stochastic Claims Reserve in the Healthcare System: A Methodology Applied to Italian Data

  • Claudio Mazzi,
  • Angelo Damone,
  • Andrea Vandelli,
  • Gastone Ciuti and
  • Milena Vainieri

29 January 2024

One of the challenges in the healthcare sector is making accurate forecasts across insurance years for claims reserve. Healthcare claims present huge variability and heterogeneity influenced by random decisions of the courts and intrinsic characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,370 Views
22 Pages

29 April 2022

The statistical inference of the reliability and parameters of the stress–strength model has received great attention in the field of reliability analysis. When following the generalized progressive hybrid censoring (GPHC) scheme, it is importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,329 Views
38 Pages

15 November 2022

This study uses the adaptive Type-II progressively censored competing risks model to estimate the unknown parameters and the survival function of the Gompertz distribution. Where the lifetime for each failure is considered independent, and each follo...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,685 Views
21 Pages

2 September 2023

This work discusses the issues of estimation and prediction when lifespan data following alpha-power Weibull distribution are observed under Type II hybrid censoring. We calculate point and related interval estimates for both issues using both non-Ba...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,604 Views
30 Pages

2 February 2021

In this paper, the parameter estimation problem of a truncated normal distribution is discussed based on the generalized progressive hybrid censored data. The desired maximum likelihood estimates of unknown quantities are firstly derived through the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,212 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Updated Full-Discretization Method for Prediction of Milling Stability

  • Junjin Ma,
  • Yunfei Li,
  • Dinghua Zhang,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Geng Wang and
  • Xiaoyan Pang

21 January 2022

This paper presents an updated full-discretization method for milling stability prediction based on cubic spline interpolation. First, the mathematical model of the time-delay milling system considering regenerative chatter is represented by a dynami...

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  • Open Access
671 Views
28 Pages

24 July 2025

This paper explores statistical techniques for estimating unknown lifetime parameters using data from a progressive first-failure censoring scheme. The failure times are modeled with a new Weibull–Pareto distribution. Maximum likelihood estimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,685 Views
29 Pages

5 January 2023

Applications in medical technology have a massive contribution to the treatment of patients. One of the attractive tools is ball bearings. These balls support the load of the application as well as minimize friction between the surfaces. If a heavy l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,963 Views
10 Pages

Computation of the non-central chi square probability density function is encountered in diverse fields of applied statistics and engineering. The distribution is commonly computed as a Poisson mixture of central chi square densities, where the terms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,278 Views
23 Pages

22 February 2022

In survival analysis, applying stress is often used to accelerate an experiment. Stress can be discontinuous, and the step-stress model is applied widely due to its flexibility. However, in reality, when new stress is applied, it often does not take...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,320 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2022

In the numerical integration of the second-order nonlinear boundary value problem (BVP), the right boundary condition plays the role as a target equation, which is solved either by the half-interval method (HIM) or a new derivative-free Newton method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,574 Views
19 Pages

Numerical Approach for Solving Delay Differential Equations with Boundary Conditions

  • Nur Tasnem Jaaffar,
  • Zanariah Abdul Majid and
  • Norazak Senu

2 July 2020

In the present paper, a fifth-order direct multistep block method is proposed for solving the second-order Delay Differential Equations (DDEs) directly with boundary conditions using constant step size. In many life sciences applications, a delay pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,745 Views
32 Pages

7 July 2024

In this research, the statistical inference of unknown lifetime parameters is proposed in the presence of independent competing risks using a progressive Type-II censored dataset. The lifetime distribution associated with a failure mode is assumed to...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,416 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2023

Due to the flexibility of the Weibull distribution and the proportional hazard (PH) model, Weibull PH is widely used in survival analysis under right censored data and interval censored data but it is seldom investigated under current status data, pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,058 Views
10 Pages

Bayesian extreme value analysis was used to forecast the optimal point in agricultural commodity futures prices in the United States for cocoa, coffee, corn, soybeans and wheat. Data were collected daily between 2000 and 2020. The estimation of extre...

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  • Open Access
865 Views
15 Pages

Analysis and Numerical Simulation of the Behavior of Composite Materials with Natural Fibers Under Quasi-Static Frictional Contact

  • Mirela Roxana Apsan,
  • Ana Maria Mitu,
  • Nicolae Pop,
  • Tudor Sireteanu,
  • Vicentiu Marius Maxim and
  • Adrian Musat

This paper analyzed the behavior of polymer composite materials reinforced with randomly oriented short natural fibers (hemp, flax, etc.) subjected to external stresses under quasistatic contact conditions with dry Coulomb friction. We presumed the c...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,335 Views
15 Pages

Nonlinear Logistic Model for Describing Strawberry Fruit Production

  • Maria Inês Diel,
  • Alessandro Dal Col Lucio,
  • Dilson Antonio Bisognin,
  • Gabriel de Araujo Lopes and
  • Valdeci Jose dos Santos

23 August 2024

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) production can be evaluated as repeated measurements, since the same plant is harvested multiple times during the production season. The objectives were to evaluate the production of fresh mass and fruit n...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,421 Views
22 Pages

Many low-cost platforms that support floating-point arithmetic, such as microcontrollers and field-programmable gate arrays, do not include fast hardware or software methods for calculating the square root and/or reciprocal square root. Typically, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
526 Views
35 Pages

23 July 2025

A novel unified progressive hybrid censoring is introduced to combine both progressive and hybrid censoring plans to allow flexible test termination either after a prespecified number of failures or at a fixed time. This work develops both frequentis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,657 Views
26 Pages

1 December 2022

It is important to accurately calculate flattening points when reconstructing ship hull models, which require fast and high-precision computation. However, some search algorithms, such as the bisection method, iterate near the optimal value too many...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,388 Views
26 Pages

The outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) began in Wuhan, China, and spread all around the globe. For analysis of the said outbreak, mathematical formulations are important techniques that are used for the stability and predictions of infectious disease...