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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,391 Views
21 Pages

25 March 2020

Due to the diversity of ship-radiated noise (SRN), audio segmentation is an essential procedure in the ship statuses/categories identification. However, the existing segmentation methods are not suitable for the SRN because of the lack of prior knowl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,349 Views
15 Pages

In order to solve the problem that the generalized likelihood test method cannot isolate the single fault of the four-gyro system and the double faults of the six-gyro system, a fault detection and isolation method combining the generalized likelihoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,955 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Generalization of Zero-Truncated Binomial Distribution by Lagrangian Approach with Applications for the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Muhammed Rasheed Irshad,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Damodaran Santhamani Shibu,
  • Mohanan Monisha and
  • Radhakumari Maya

30 October 2022

The importance of Lagrangian distributions and their applicability in real-world events have been highlighted in several studies. In light of this, we create a new zero-truncated Lagrangian distribution. It is presented as a generalization of the zer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,512 Views
12 Pages

10 November 2022

We consider inference based on the profile likelihood function for the scale parameter of the generalized logistic distribution. This distribution is a generalization of the logistic distribution, a symmetric distribution like the normal distribution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
1,423 Views
10 Pages

17 June 2008

Objective. To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of hysterosalpingography in the diagnosis of tubal pathology among infertile patients.

Patients and methods. A prospective cross-sectional study in Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital within the perio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,823 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
2 Citations
2,545 Views
12 Pages

7 March 2024

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm-based Markov Chain approach that can be used for non-parametric estimation of regression coefficients and their statistical confidence bounds. The proposed approach can generate samples from an unknown probabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,267 Views
25 Pages

Lagrangian Zero Truncated Poisson Distribution: Properties Regression Model and Applications

  • Muhammed Rasheed Irshad,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Damodaran Santhamani Shibu,
  • Mohanan Monisha and
  • Radhakumari Maya

25 August 2022

In this paper, we construct a new Lagrangian discrete distribution, named the Lagrangian zero truncated Poisson distribution (LZTPD). It can be presented as a generalization of the zero truncated Poissson distribution (ZTPD) and an alternative to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,950 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Zero-Truncated Katz Distribution by the Lagrange Expansion of the Second Kind with Associated Inferences

  • Damodaran Santhamani Shibu,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Mohanan Monisha,
  • Radhakumari Maya and
  • Muhammed Rasheed Irshad

1 June 2023

In this article, the Lagrange expansion of the second kind is used to generate a novel zero-truncated Katz distribution; we refer to it as the Lagrangian zero-truncated Katz distribution (LZTKD). Notably, the zero-truncated Katz distribution is a spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,745 Views
24 Pages

3 March 2019

We tested four likelihood measures including two limits of acceptability and two absolute model residual methods within the generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) framework using the topography model (TOPMODEL). All these methods take t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,845 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2018

As a result of the two-parameter Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution being successful in modelling fatigue failure times, several extensions of this model have been explored from different aspects. In this article, we consider a progressive str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,942 Views
22 Pages

The sum of independent circular uniformly distributed random variables is also circular uniformly distributed. In this study, it is shown that a family of circular distributions based on nonnegative trigonometric sums (NNTS) is also closed under summ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,981 Views
23 Pages

28 November 2019

This paper discusses entropy estimations for two-parameter inverse Weibull distributions under adaptive type-II progressive hybrid censoring schemes. Estimations of entropy derived by maximum likelihood estimation method and Bayes estimation method a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,606 Views
17 Pages

The Modified Beta Gompertz Distribution: Theory and Applications

  • Ibrahim Elbatal,
  • Farrukh Jamal,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Mohammed Elgarhy and
  • Sharifah Alrajhi

20 December 2018

In this paper, we introduce a new continuous probability distribution with five parameters called the modified beta Gompertz distribution. It is derived from the modified beta generator proposed by Nadarajah, Teimouri and Shih (2014) and the Gompertz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,308 Views
31 Pages

6 November 2025

There are many studies in the scientific literature that present predictions from parametric statistical models based on maximum likelihood estimates of the unknown parameters. However, generating predictions from maximum likelihood parameter estimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,124 Views
27 Pages

Consequences of Model Misspecification for Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Missing Data

  • Richard M. Golden,
  • Steven S. Henley,
  • Halbert White and
  • T. Michael Kashner

Researchers are often faced with the challenge of developing statistical models with incomplete data. Exacerbating this situation is the possibility that either the researcher’s complete-data model or the model of the missing-data mechanism is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,687 Views
26 Pages

21 June 2023

Today, the reliability or quality practitioner always aims to shorten testing duration and reduce testing costs without neglecting efficient statistical inference. So, a generalized progressively Type-II hybrid censored mechanism has been developed i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,672 Views
18 Pages

Determination of Geometrical REVs Based on Volumetric Fracture Intensity and Statistical Tests

  • Ying Liu,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Jianping Chen,
  • Shengyuan Song,
  • Jiewei Zhan and
  • Xudong Han

16 May 2018

This paper presents a method to estimate a representative element volume (REV) of a fractured rock mass based on the volumetric fracture intensity P32 and statistical tests. A 150 m × 80 m × 50 m 3D fracture network model was gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,535 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2021

Adjusting for covariates is important in the study of the performance of diagnostic tests. In this manuscript, the simultaneous comparison of the sensitivities and specificities of two binary diagnostic tests is studied when discrete covariates are o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,359 Views
20 Pages

Bayesian Inference under Small Sample Sizes Using General Noninformative Priors

  • Jingjing He,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Min Huang,
  • Shaohua Wang and
  • Xuefei Guan

5 November 2021

This paper proposes a Bayesian inference method for problems with small sample sizes. A general type of noninformative prior is proposed to formulate the Bayesian posterior. It is shown that this type of prior can represent a broad range of priors su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,325 Views
23 Pages

Sensitivity of Subjective Decisions in the GLUE Methodology for Quantifying the Uncertainty in the Flood Inundation Map for Seymour Reach in Indiana, USA

  • Younghun Jung,
  • Venkatesh Merwade,
  • Soojun Kim,
  • Narae Kang,
  • Yonsoo Kim,
  • Keonhaeng Lee,
  • Gilho Kim and
  • Hung Soo Kim

23 July 2014

Generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation (GLUE) is one of the widely-used methods for quantifying uncertainty in flood inundation mapping. However, the subjective nature of its application involving the definition of the likelihood measure and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Citations
23,672 Views
40 Pages

A Review of Software for Spatial Econometrics in R

  • Roger Bivand,
  • Giovanni Millo and
  • Gianfranco Piras

2 June 2021

The software for spatial econometrics available in the R system for statistical computing is reviewed. The methods are illustrated in a historical perspective, highlighting the main lines of development and employing historically relevant datasets in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,200 Views
29 Pages

20 November 2017

The classical quadratic loss for the partially linear model (PLM) and the likelihood function for the generalized PLM are not resistant to outliers. This inspires us to propose a class of “robust-Bregman divergence (BD)” estimators of both the parame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,481 Views
23 Pages

Hypothesis Test to Compare Two Paired Binomial Proportions: Assessment of 24 Methods

  • José Antonio Roldán-Nofuentes,
  • Tulsi Sagar Sheth and
  • José Fernando Vera-Vera

6 January 2024

The comparison of two paired binomial proportions is a topic of interest in statistics, with important applications in medicine. There are different methods in the statistical literature to solve this problem, and the McNemar test is the best known o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,908 Views
41 Pages

8 April 2021

This paper investigates the asymptotic properties of estimators obtained from the so called CVA (canonical variate analysis) subspace algorithm proposed by Larimore (1983) in the case when the data is generated using a minimal state space system cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,267 Views
19 Pages

Sequential Transient Detection for RF Fingerprinting

  • Selçuk Taşcıoğlu,
  • Memduh Köse and
  • Gökhan Soysal

16 October 2022

In this paper, a sequential transient detection method for radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting used in the identification of wireless devices is proposed. To the best knowledge of the authors, sequential detection of transient signals for RF fingerpr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,167 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2025

Factorial invariance is critical for ensuring consistent relationships between measured variables and latent constructs across groups or time, enabling valid comparisons in social science research. Detecting factorial invariance becomes challenging w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,378 Views
28 Pages

Inferences of the Multicomponent Stress–Strength Reliability for Burr XII Distributions

  • Yuhlong Lio,
  • Tzong-Ru Tsai,
  • Liang Wang and
  • Ignacio Pascual Cecilio Tejada

16 July 2022

Multicomponent stress–strength reliability (MSR) is explored for the system with Burr XII distributed components under Type-II censoring. When the distributions of strength and stress variables have Burr XII distributions with common or unequal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,287 Views
33 Pages

17 March 2024

The reliability of the multicomponent stress–strength system was investigated under the two-parameter Burr X distribution model. Based on the structure of the system, the type II censored sample of strength and random sample of stress were obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,334 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2019

We propose a method for generating surrogate data that preserves all the properties of ordinal patterns up to a certain length, such as the numbers of allowed/forbidden ordinal patterns and transition likelihoods from ordinal patterns into others. Th...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
566 Views
10 Pages

Nonparametric Full Bayesian Significance Testing for Bayesian Histograms

  • Fernando Corrêa,
  • Julio Michael Stern and
  • Rafael Bassi Stern

In this article, we present an extension of the Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST) for nonparametric settings, termed NP-FBST, which is constructed using the limit of finite dimension histograms. The test statistics for NP-FBST are based on a plu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,257 Views
26 Pages

General Entropy with Bayes Techniques under Lindley and MCMC for Estimating the New Weibull–Pareto Parameters: Theory and Application

  • Mohamed S. Eliwa,
  • Rashad M. EL-Sagheer,
  • Samah H. El-Essawy,
  • Bader Almohaimeed,
  • Fahad S. Alshammari and
  • Mahmoud El-Morshedy

12 November 2022

Censored data play a pivotal role in life testing experiments since they significantly reduce cost and testing time. Hence, this paper investigates the problem of statistical inference for a system of progressive first-failure censoring data for a ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,710 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2017

A prototype-based method is developed to discriminate different types of clutter (ground clutter, sea clutter, and insects) from weather echoes using polarimetric measurements and their textures. This method employs a clustering algorithm to generate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,992 Views
19 Pages

18 February 2024

We provide a formal statistical theory of consistent estimation of the set of all arbitrage portfolios that meet the description of being a stochastic arbitrage opportunity. Two empirical likelihood ratio tests are developed: one for the null that a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
3,890 Views
24 Pages

25 May 2020

In this paper, we first study a new two parameter lifetime distribution. This distribution includes “monotone” and “non-monotone” hazard rate functions which are useful in lifetime data analysis and reliability. Some of its ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,143 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2018

For InSAR topographic mapping, multi-baseline InSAR height estimation is known to be an effective way to facilitate phase unwrapping by significantly increasing the ambiguity intervals and maintaining good height measurement sensitivity, especially i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,926 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2019

As it is often unavoidable to obtain incomplete data in life testing and survival analysis, research on censoring data is becoming increasingly popular. In this paper, the problem of estimating the entropy of a two-parameter Lomax distribution based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,650 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Flexible Class of Intervened Poisson Distribution by Lagrangian Approach

  • Muhammed Rasheed Irshad,
  • Mohanan Monisha,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Radhakumari Maya and
  • Damodaran Santhamani Shibu

15 January 2023

The zero-truncated Poisson distribution (ZTPD) generates a statistical model that could be appropriate when observations begin once at least one event occurs. The intervened Poisson distribution (IPD) is a substitute for the ZTPD, in which some inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,303 Views
15 Pages

Uncertainty Assessment of Urban Hydrological Modelling from a Multiple Objective Perspective

  • Bo Pang,
  • Shulan Shi,
  • Gang Zhao,
  • Rong Shi,
  • Dingzhi Peng and
  • Zhongfan Zhu

14 May 2020

The uncertainty assessment of urban hydrological models is important for understanding the reliability of the simulated results. To satisfy the demand for urban flood management, we assessed the uncertainty of urban hydrological models from a multipl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,820 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2023

In this paper, we consider the problem of discriminating among three different positively skewed lifetime distributions, namely the generalized exponential distribution, the weighted exponential distribution, and the Weibull distribution. All of thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,361 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
5,881 Views
22 Pages

5 August 2020

There are several different proposed data mining methods for the postmarketing surveillance of drug safety. Adverse events are often classified into a hierarchical structure. Our objective was to compare the performance of several of these different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,687 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2022

The inverse Weibull distribution (IWD) can be applied to a various situations, including applications in reliability and medicine. In a reliability and medicine test, it is generally known that the results of test units may not be recorded. Recently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,930 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2017

The existing unsupervised change detection methods using full-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) do not use all the polarimetric information, and the results are subject to the influence of noise. In order to solve these problems, a novel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,523 Views
19 Pages

11 July 2024

This article discusses different methods for estimating the shape and scale parameters of the generalized inverted exponential distribution (GIED) and the acceleration factor in constant stress partially accelerated life test (CSPALT) with general pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,702 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2017

Spoofing attacks are threatening the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE)-based positioning technique is a direct positioning method originally developed for multipath rejection and weak signal processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
616 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2025

Paired data often arise in medical studies, with a correlation between responses of paired organs or parts. Under an intra-correlated model, this paper proposes a generalized linear model to investigate probable confounding factors of the individual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,000 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2023

The primary challenge in unsupervised learning is training unnormalized density models and then generating similar samples. Few traditional unnormalized models know what the quality of the trained model is, as most models are evaluated by downstream...

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