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14 Citations
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4 December 2020

In 2020 Dombi and Jónás (Acta Polytechnica Hungarica 17:1, 2020) introduced a new four parameter probability distribution which they named the pliant probability distribution family. One of the special members of this family is the so-c...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,258 Views
11 Pages

2 August 2021

The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) aims to regulate insurance distribution in the EU regardless of distribution channels and means. Although new technologies affect insurance distribution, the IDD does not explicitly regulate this digital tra...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,301 Views
17 Pages

Reliability of Active Distribution Network Considering Uncertainty of Distribution Generation and Load

  • Wentao Xu,
  • Siming Zeng,
  • Xiaodong Du,
  • Jianli Zhao,
  • Yuling He and
  • Xuewei Wu

An active distribution network is an important development trend of the power grid with widespread use of the distributed generation. The reliability of the active distribution network is not negligible due to the uninterruptible power supply. In the...

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1 Citations
1,952 Views
12 Pages

21 March 2024

Currently, there is no widely accepted consensus regarding a consistent thermodynamic framework within the special relativity paradigm. However, by postulating that the inverse temperature 4-vector, denoted as β, is future-directed and time-like...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,777 Views
13 Pages

A Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator Application to Mitigate Voltage Variation for Distribution Feeders

  • Te-Tien Ku,
  • Chia-Hung Lin,
  • Chao-Shun Chen,
  • Yih-Der Lee,
  • Jheng-Lun Jiang,
  • Sing-Jia Tzeng and
  • Chen-Min Chan

27 July 2023

With the growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER), the accompanying challenges have led utilities to limit the hosting capacities of DER installations on distribution feeders. A distribution static synchronous compensator (DSTATCOM)...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,065 Views
9 Pages

Abundance and Distribution of Korean Flower Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae): Dominant Influence of Latitude on Regional Distribution

  • Tae-Sung Kwon,
  • Cheol Min Lee,
  • Ok Yeong Ji,
  • Mohammad Athar,
  • Sung Cheol Jung,
  • Jong-Hwan Lim and
  • Young-Seuk Park

29 March 2020

Studies on abundance and distribution at different scales are rare. We examined whether the abundance of flower flies at a site in South Korea was related to the national occupancy and global distribution (distributional extent or range size) and whe...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,225 Views
12 Pages

A Distribution for Instantaneous Failures

  • Pedro L. Ramos and
  • Francisco Louzada

7 May 2019

A new one-parameter distribution is proposed in this paper. The new distribution allows for the occurrence of instantaneous failures (inliers) that are natural in many areas. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the moments, mean, variance, a coe...

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1,480 Views
13 Pages

16 August 2023

It is noted that some uncertain variables are independent while others are not. In general, there is a symmetrical relationship between independence and dependence among uncertain variables. The utilization of conditional uncertain measures as well a...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,227 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Consensus Multi-Distribution Filter for Heavy-Tailed Noise

  • Guan-Nan Chang,
  • Wen-Xing Fu,
  • Tao Cui,
  • Ling-Yun Song and
  • Peng Dong

Distributed state estimation is one of the critical technologies in the field of target tracking, where the process noise and measurement noise may have a heavy-tailed distribution. Traditionally, heavy-tailed distributions like the student-t distrib...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,775 Views
15 Pages

A Heavy-Tailed Distribution Based on the Lomax–Rayleigh Distribution with Applications to Medical Data

  • Karol I. Santoro,
  • Diego I. Gallardo,
  • Osvaldo Venegas,
  • Isaac E. Cortés and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

13 November 2023

In this paper, we extend the Lomax–Rayleigh distribution to increase its kurtosis. The construction of this distribution is based on the idea of the Slash distribution, that is, its representation is based on the quotient of two independent ran...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,550 Views
15 Pages

Uniformly Shifted Exponential Distribution

  • Abdulhamid. A. Alzaid and
  • Najla Qarmalah

21 May 2024

The use of life distributions has increased over the past decade, receiving particular attention in recent years, both from a practical and theoretical point of view. Life distributions can be used in a number of applied fields, such as medicine, bio...

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17 Citations
4,248 Views
10 Pages

Sample Sizes Based on Weibull Distribution and Normal Distribution for FRP Tensile Coupon Test

  • Yongxin Yang,
  • Weijie Li,
  • Wenshui Tang,
  • Biao Li and
  • Dengfeng Zhang

2 January 2019

Current guidelines stipulate a sample size of five for a tensile coupon test of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites based on the assumption of a normal distribution and a sample coefficient of variation (COV) of 0.058. Increasing studies have v...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,522 Views
11 Pages

Matrix-Wigner Distribution

  • Long Wang,
  • Manjun Cui,
  • Ze Qin,
  • Zhichao Zhang and
  • Jianwei Zhang

In order to achieve time–frequency superresolution in comparison to the conventional Wigner distribution (WD), this study generalizes the well-known τ-Wigner distribution (τ-WD) with only one parameter τ to the multiple-parameter ma...

  • Review
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21 Citations
4,345 Views
45 Pages

Future Distribution Networks: A Review

  • Zahid Javid,
  • Ilhan Kocar,
  • William Holderbaum and
  • Ulas Karaagac

10 April 2024

This manuscript presents a comprehensive review of recent advancements in electrical distribution networks, with a specific focus on the incorporation of direct current (DC) applications. The research aims to comprehensively address the current and f...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,608 Views
19 Pages

28 January 2021

This paper analyses the probability distribution of worldwide forest areas. We find moderate support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law) using FAO data from 1990 to 2015. Power laws are common features of many complex systems in nature. A powe...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,308 Views
23 Pages

Low-Capacity Exploitation of Distribution Networks and Its Effect on the Planning of Distribution Networks

  • Jorge A. Alarcon,
  • Francisco Santamaria,
  • Ameena S. Al-Sumaiti and
  • Sergio Rivera

14 April 2020

The continuous variation and dispersion of the load demand during a 24-h day are uncontrolled aspects that affect the efficiency, operational conditions, and total cost of the power distribution network. The cost of the network is strongly related to...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,159 Views
21 Pages

21 January 2019

A new one-parameter distribution is presented with similar mathematical characteristics to the two parameter conventional Weibull. It has an estimator that only depends on the sample mean. The relative entropy with respect to the Weibull distribution...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
11,723 Views
47 Pages

Smart Distribution Networks: A Review of Modern Distribution Concepts from a Planning Perspective

  • Syed Ali Abbas Kazmi,
  • Muhammad Khuram Shahzad,
  • Akif Zia Khan and
  • Dong Ryeol Shin

7 April 2017

Smart grids (SGs), as an emerging grid modernization concept, is spreading across diverse research areas for revolutionizing power systems. SGs realize new key concepts with intelligent technologies, maximizing achieved objectives and addressing crit...

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  • Open Access
419 Views
19 Pages

Coordinated Planning Method for Distribution Network Lines Considering Geographical Constraints and Load Distribution

  • Linhuan Luo,
  • Qilin Zhou,
  • Wei Pan,
  • Zhian He,
  • Minghao Liu,
  • Longfa Yang and
  • Xiangang Peng

22 December 2025

This paper proposes a coordinated planning method for distribution network lines considering geographical constraints and load distribution, aiming to improve the economy and engineering feasibility of distribution network planning. First, a hierarch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,251 Views
18 Pages

Extending Normality: A Case of Unit Distribution Generated from the Moments of the Standard Normal Distribution

  • Miguel S. Concha-Aracena,
  • Leonardo Barrios-Blanco,
  • David Elal-Olivero,
  • Paulo Henrique Ferreira da Silva and
  • Diego Carvalho do Nascimento

24 November 2022

This paper presents an important theorem, which shows that, heading from the moments of the standard normal distribution, one can generate density functions originating a family of models. Additionally, we discussed that different random variable dom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,304 Views
20 Pages

Bivariate Power-Skew-Elliptical Distribution

  • Guillermo Martínez-Flórez,
  • Roger Tovar-Falón and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

9 August 2020

In this article, we introduce a power-skew-elliptical (PSE) distribution in the bivariate setting. The new bivariate model arises in the context of conditionally specified distributions. The proposed bivariate model is an absolutely continuous distri...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,147 Views
14 Pages

In this study, joint inventory replenishment planning of an Alibaba distribution system is investigated, which contributes to the circular economy concept. The distribution system includes suppliers, central distribution centers, and front distributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,411 Views
18 Pages

New Fuzzy Extensions on Binomial Distribution

  • Gia Sirbiladze,
  • Janusz Kacprzyk,
  • Teimuraz Manjafarashvili,
  • Bidzina Midodashvili and
  • Bidzina Matsaberidze

9 May 2022

The use of discrete probabilistic distributions is relevant to many practical tasks, especially in present-day situations where the data on distribution are insufficient and expert knowledge and evaluations are the only instruments for the restoratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,376 Views
27 Pages

The New Gompertz Distribution Model and Applications

  • Ayşe Metin Karakaş and
  • Fatma Bulut

28 May 2025

The Gompertz distribution has long been a cornerstone for analyzing growth processes and mortality patterns across various scientific disciplines. However, as the intricacies of real-world phenomena evolve, there is a pressing need for more versatile...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,189 Views
15 Pages

The Sine Modified Lindley Distribution

  • Lishamol Tomy,
  • Veena G and
  • Christophe Chesneau

The paper contributes majorly in the development of a flexible trigonometric extension of the well-known modified Lindley distribution. More precisely, we use features from the sine generalized family of distributions to create an original one-parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,942 Views
36 Pages

28 September 2021

In this paper, a new generalized t (new Gt) distribution based on a distribution construction approach is proposed and proved to be suitable for fitting both the data with high kurtosis and heavy tail. The main innovation of this article consists of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,581 Views
20 Pages

A Review of Health Assessment Techniques for Distribution Transformers in Smart Distribution Grids

  • Quynh T. Tran,
  • Kevin Davies,
  • Leon Roose,
  • Puthawat Wiriyakitikun,
  • Jaktupong Janjampop,
  • Eleonora Riva Sanseverino and
  • Gaetano Zizzo

16 November 2020

Due to the large number of distribution transformers in the distribution grid, the status of distribution transformers plays an important role in ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the these grids. To evaluate the distribution transformer he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,158 Views
22 Pages

On the Bivariate Composite Gumbel–Pareto Distribution

  • Alexandra Badea,
  • Catalina Bolancé and
  • Raluca Vernic

16 October 2022

In this paper, we propose a bivariate extension of univariate composite (two-spliced) distributions defined by a bivariate Pareto distribution for values larger than some thresholds and by a bivariate Gumbel distribution on the complementary domain....

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,790 Views
19 Pages

The official data in relation to salaries paid in Spain from 1999 to 2014 has been analyzed. The inadequate data format does not reflect the whole salary distribution. Fréchet distributions have been fitted to the data. This simple distribution has s...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,067 Views
16 Pages

An Extension of the Fréchet Distribution and Applications

  • Yolanda M. Gómez,
  • Inmaculada Barranco-Chamorro,
  • Jaime S. Castillo and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

11 April 2024

This paper presents the Slash-Exponential-Fréchet distribution, which is an expanded version of the Fréchet distribution. Through its stochastic representation, probability distribution function, moments and other relevant features are...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,668 Views
23 Pages

Energy Efficiency Evaluation and Revenue Distribution of DC Power Distribution Systems in Nearly Zero Energy Buildings

  • Keteng Jiang,
  • Haibo Li,
  • Xi Ye,
  • Yi Lei,
  • Keng-Weng Lao,
  • Shuqing Zhang and
  • Xianfa Hu

6 August 2022

With the advantage of integrating distributed energy, storage and DC load with high efficiency, the DC distribution network recently attracted wide attention in the field of nearly zero energy buildings. Considering the large number of buildings and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,722 Views
19 Pages

19 April 2022

The complexity and uncertainty of the distribution system are increasing as the connection of distributed power sources using solar or wind energy is rapidly increasing, and digital loads are expanding. As these complexity and uncertainty keep increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,961 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2020

In this article, the slashed Lomax distribution is introduced, which is an asymmetric distribution and can be used for fitting thick-tailed datasets. Various properties are explored, such as the density function, hazard rate function, Renyi entropy,...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,432 Views
24 Pages

16 March 2023

Inhomogeneous random graphs are commonly used models for complex networks where nodes have varying degrees of connectivity. Computing the degree distribution of such networks is a fundamental problem and has important applications in various fields....

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,516 Views
20 Pages

12 November 2020

Loop distribution systems are increasingly used for reasons such as increased distributed generation (DG) and increased demand for a reliable and high-quality power supply. Because the loop distribution system involves bidirectional power flow, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,645 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2023

This paper studies a subclass of the class of generalized hyperbolic distribution called the semi-hyperbolic distribution. We obtain analytical expressions for the cumulative distribution function and, specifically, their first and second lower parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,625 Views
15 Pages

A Gamma-Type Distribution with Applications

  • Yuri A. Iriarte,
  • Héctor Varela,
  • Héctor J. Gómez and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

25 May 2020

This article introduces a new probability distribution capable of modeling positive data that present different levels of asymmetry and high levels of kurtosis. A slashed quasi-gamma random variable is defined as the quotient of independent random va...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,995 Views
12 Pages

7 August 2017

In statistical process control, the control chart utilizing the idea of maximum entropy distribution density level sets has been proven to perform well for monitoring the quantity with multimodal distribution. However, it is too complicated to implem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,462 Views
17 Pages

Scale Mixture of Exponential Distribution with an Application

  • Jorge A. Barahona,
  • Yolanda M. Gómez,
  • Emilio Gómez-Déniz,
  • Osvaldo Venegas and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

3 January 2024

This article presents an extended distribution that builds upon the exponential distribution. This extension is based on a scale mixture between the exponential and beta distributions. By utilizing this approach, we obtain a distribution that offers...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,962 Views
20 Pages

Smart Distribution Systems

  • Yazhou Jiang,
  • Chen-Ching Liu and
  • Yin Xu

19 April 2016

The increasing importance of system reliability and resilience is changing the way distribution systems are planned and operated. To achieve a distribution system self-healing against power outages, emerging technologies and devices, such as remote-c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,388 Views
19 Pages

A Bivariate Power Lindley Survival Distribution

  • Guillermo Martínez-Flórez,
  • Barry C. Arnold and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

24 October 2024

We introduce and investigate the properties of new families of univariate and bivariate distributions based on the survival function of the Lindley distribution. The univariate distribution, to reflect the nature of its construction, is called a powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,879 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2023

In this paper, we study a new type of distribution that generalizes distributions from the gamma and beta classes that are widely used in applications. The estimators for the parameters of the digamma distribution obtained by the method of logarithmi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,711 Views
13 Pages

Nadarajah–Haghighi Lomax Distribution and Its Applications

  • Vasili B. V. Nagarjuna,
  • Rudravaram Vishnu Vardhan and
  • Christophe Chesneau

Over the years, several researchers have worked to model phenomena in which the distribution of data presents more or less heavy tails. With this aim, several generalizations or extensions of the Lomax distribution have been proposed. In this paper,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,452 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...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,975 Views
9 Pages

Some Results on the Truncated Multivariate Skew-Normal Distribution

  • Raúl Alejandro Morán-Vásquez,
  • Duván Humberto Cataño Salazar and
  • Daya K. Nagar

9 May 2022

The multivariate skew-normal distribution is useful for modeling departures from normality in data through parameters controlling skewness. Recently, several extensions of this distribution have been proposed in the statistical literature, among whic...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,721 Views
17 Pages

2 March 2019

Distribution network loss analysis is crucial for the economic operation in residential distribution networks. The increasing level of distributed generation (DG) has considerably improved the overall sustainability but raised the uncertainty in syst...

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