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Volume 45, issue 3, 2018

Heteroscedastic log-exponentiated Weibull regression model pp. 384-408

Edwin M. M. Ortega, Artur J. Lemonte, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Vicente G. Cancho and Fábio L. Mialhe

Comparative GMM and GQL logistic regression models on hierarchical data pp. 409-425

Bei Wang and Jeffrey Wilson

Estimating the population proportion in pair ranked set sampling with application to air quality monitoring pp. 426-437

Ehsan Zamanzade and M. Mahdizadeh

A Bayesian analysis of clustered discrete and continuous outcomes pp. 438-449

Dale Bowman and E. Olusegun George

Testing discontinuities in nonparametric regression pp. 450-473

Wenlin Dai, Yuejin Zhou and Tiejun Tong

An improved meta-analysis for analyzing cylindrical-type time series data with applications to forecasting problem in environmental study pp. 474-486

Shuo Wang, Sungsu Kim and Thelge Buddika Peiris

Statistical learning on emerging economies pp. 487-507

Eftychia Solea, Bing Li and Aleksandra Slavković

Development of an urban intensity index to facilitate urban ecosystem studies in Trinidad and Tobago pp. 508-527

Samantha Chadee and Valerie Stoute

Inferences from logistic regression models in the presence of small samples, rare events, nonlinearity, and multicollinearity with observational data pp. 528-546

Jason Bergtold, Elizabeth A. Yeager and Allen Featherstone

Addressing the problem of missing data in decision tree modeling pp. 547-557

Saiedeh Haji-Maghsoudi, Azam Rastegari, Behshid Garrusi and Mohammad Reza Baneshi

Layered clays in PP polymer dispersion: the effect of the processing conditions pp. 558-567

M. F. de Almeida, Aldina Correia and Eliana Costa e Silva

Spatially explicit survival modeling for small area cancer data pp. 568-585

Georgiana Onicescu, Andrew B. Lawson, Jiajia Zhang, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Kristin Wallace and Jan M. Eberth

Volume 45, issue 2, 2018

L-moments of the Birnbaum–Saunders distribution and its extreme value version: estimation, goodness of fit and application to earthquake data pp. 187-209

Camilo Lillo, Víctor Leiva, Orietta Nicolis and Robert G. Aykroyd

Classification rules for identifying individuals at high risk of developing myocardial infarction based on ApoB, ApoA1 and the ratio were determined using a Bayesian approach pp. 210-224

S. Islam, S. Anand, M. McQueen, J. Hamid, L. Thabane, S. Yusuf and J. Beyene

Selection of terms in random coefficient regression models pp. 225-242

Francisco M. M. Rocha and Julio M. Singer

Detection of a pair of outliers in a sample from a Gumbel distribution with known scale parameter pp. 243-254

S. Lalitha and Pratyasha Tripathi

A comparative simulation of multiple testing procedures in circular data problems pp. 255-269

Feridun Tasdan and Ozgur Yeniay

Bayesian inference for the randomly censored Burr-type XII distribution pp. 270-283

Muhammad Yameen Danish, Irshad Ahmad Arshad and Muhammad Aslam

The uniform distribution product: an approach to the inventory model using R pp. 284-297

Amílcar Oliveira, Teresa Oliveira and Antonio Seijas-Macías

A Bayesian hierarchical model for estimating the cost of postponing the cyclo-cross national championships pp. 298-305

J. T. Fry, Andrew Hoegh, Scotland Leman and Matthew Montesano

Evaluation of different statistical methods using SAS software: an in silico approach for analysis of real-time PCR data pp. 306-319

Mohammadreza Nassiri, Mahdi Elahi Torshizi, Shahrokh Ghovvati and Mohammad Doosti

Bayesian truncated beta nonlinear mixed-effects models pp. 320-346

Carolina Costa Mota Paraíba, Natalia Bochkina and Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz

A new algorithm for clustering based on kernel density estimation pp. 347-366

L. C. Matioli, S.R. Santos, M. Kleina and E. A. Leite

Robust modelling of the relationship between CD4 and viral load for complex AIDS data pp. 367-383

Tingting Yu and Lang Wu

Volume 45, issue 1, 2018

Spatial–temporal variation of casuarina spread in Cauvery delta and north eastern zone of Tamil Nadu, India: a spatial autoregressive model pp. 1-7

M. Vijayabhama, R. Jaisankar, S. Varadha Raj and K. Baranidharan

Variable selection in gamma regression models via artificial bee colony algorithm pp. 8-16

Emre Dunder, Serpil Gumustekin and Mehmet Ali Cengiz

Energy performance evaluation of OECD countries using Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis and Bayesian network classifiers pp. 17-25

Mehmet Ali Cengiz, Emre Dünder and Talat Şenel

Lasso-type estimation for covariate-adjusted linear model pp. 26-42

Feng Li and Yiqiang Lu

Verification in biometric systems: problems and modern methods of their solution pp. 43-62

Kartlos Joseph Kachiashvili and Archil Iveri Prangishvili

Simultaneous edit-imputation and disclosure limitation for business establishment data pp. 63-82

Hang J. Kim, Jerome P. Reiter and Alan F. Karr

Simple components pp. 83-99

T. F. Cox and D. S. Arnold

Robust regression: an inferential method for determining which independent variables are most important pp. 100-111

Rand R. Wilcox

A functional data approach to model score difference process in professional basketball games pp. 112-127

Tao Chen and Qingliang (Michael) Fan

Poisson–exponential distribution: different methods of estimation pp. 128-144

Giovani Carrara Rodrigues, Francisco Louzada and Pedro Luiz Ramos

Generalized Tobit models: diagnostics and application in econometrics pp. 145-167

Michelli Barros, Manuel Galea, Víctor Leiva and Manoel Santos-Neto

Gaussian Markov random field spatial models in GAMLSS pp. 168-186

Fernanda De Bastiani, Robert A. Rigby, Dimitrios M. Stasinopoulous, Audrey H.M.A. Cysneiros and Miguel A. Uribe-Opazo

Volume 44, issue 16, 2017

Fractionally integrated GARCH model with tempered stable distribution: a simulation study pp. 2837-2857

L. Feng and Y. Shi

MARS as an alternative approach of Gaussian graphical model for biochemical networks pp. 2858-2876

Ezgi Ayyıldız, Melih Ağraz and Vilda Purutçuoğlu

The evaluation study on tourism websites: from the perspective of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute group decision making pp. 2877-2889

Tonghui Lian, Caihua Yu, Zhongqun Wang and Zhiping Hou

Analyzing dependence in incidence of diabetes and heart problem using generalized bivariate geometric models with covariates pp. 2890-2907

M. Ataharul Islam, Rafiqul I. Chowdhury and K. S. Sultan

Causal inferences from many experiments pp. 2908-2922

Wendy K. Tam Cho

Empirical likelihood-based robust tests for genetic association analysis with quantitative traits pp. 2923-2935

Wenjun Xiong, You Su and Juan Ding

The evaluation of socio-economic development of development agency regions in Turkey using classical and robust principal component analyses pp. 2936-2948

Hasan Bulut and Yüksel Öner

A clustering cure rate model with application to a sealant study pp. 2949-2962

Diego I. Gallardo, Heleno Bolfarine and Atonio Carlos Pedroso-de-Lima

Exponentiated-exponential geometric regression model pp. 2963-2977

Felix Famoye and Carl Lee

A new generalized weighted Weibull distribution with decreasing, increasing, upside-down bathtub, N-shape and M-shape hazard rate pp. 2978-2993

Filippo Domma, Francesca Condino and Božidar V. Popović

Valid estimates for repeated randomized response methods pp. 2994-3010

Heiko Groenitz

Multivariate hierarchical Bayesian models and choice of priors in the analysis of survey data pp. 3011-3032

Diego Montano

Estimation and diagnostic for skew-normal partially linear models pp. 3033-3053

Clécio S. Ferreira and Gilberto A. Paula

Volume 44, issue 15, 2017

Model selection with missing covariates for policy considerations in fox enclosures pp. 2645-2658

Andrew Hoegh, Ian Crandell, Scott Klopfer and Mike Fies

Generalized Poisson–Lindley linear model for count data pp. 2659-2671

Weerinrada Wongrin and Winai Bodhisuwan

Case study: shipping trend estimation and prediction via multiscale variance stabilisation pp. 2672-2684

Antonis Michis and Guy P. Nason

Updating a nonlinear discriminant function estimated from a mixture of two Burr Type III distributions pp. 2685-2696

A. S. Al-Moisheer

Penalized multidimensional fitting for protein movement detection pp. 2697-2715

Hiba Alawieh, Nicolas Wicker, Baydaa Al Ayoubi and Luc Moulinier

A general location model with zero-inflated counts and skew normal outcomes pp. 2716-2728

Sayed Jamal Mirkamali and Mojtaba Ganjali

CO-tucker: a new method for the simultaneous analysis of a sequence of paired tables pp. 2729-2755

Susana Mendes, M. José Fernández-Gómez, Sónia Cotrim Marques, Miguel Ângelo Pardal, Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro and M. Purificación Galindo-Villardón

Simulated maximum likelihood estimation in joint models for multiple longitudinal markers and recurrent events of multiple types, in the presence of a terminal event pp. 2756-2777

M. H. Hof, J. Z. Musoro, R. B. Geskus, G. H. Struijk, I. J. M. ten Berge and A. H. Zwinderman

Analysis of interval censored failure time data with competing risk pp. 2778-2790

Yang-Jin Kim

Bayesian binary quantile regression for the analysis of Bachelor-to-Master transition pp. 2791-2812

Cristina Mollica and Lea Petrella

A shared parameter model of longitudinal measurements and survival time with heterogeneous random-effects distribution pp. 2813-2836

Taban Baghfalaki, Mojtaba Ganjali and Geert Verbeke

Volume 44, issue 14, 2017

A Monte Carlo-based pseudo-coefficient of determination for generalized linear models with binary outcome pp. 2458-2482

Selen Cakmakyapan and Haydar Demirhan

Measuring and estimating the interaction between exposures on a dichotomous outcome for observational studies pp. 2483-2498

Xiaoqin Wang, Weimin Ye and Li Yin

Parameter estimation of the flexible Weibull distribution for type I censored samples pp. 2499-2512

Arwa Nasr, Soufiane Gasmi and Fayçal Ben Hmida

A fuzzy clustering approach to evaluate individual competencies from REFLEX data pp. 2513-2533

Abdul Suleman

Modeling and predicting extreme cyber attack rates via marked point processes pp. 2534-2563

Chen Peng, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu and Taizhong Hu

Linear regression: robust heteroscedastic confidence bands that have some specified simultaneous probability coverage pp. 2564-2574

Rand R. Wilcox

Estimation of the Burr type III distribution with application in unified hybrid censored sample of fracture toughness pp. 2575-2592

Hanieh Panahi

Short-run price forecast performance of individual and composite models for 496 corn cash markets pp. 2593-2620

Xiaojie Xu

Ties in one block comparison experiments: a generalization of the Mallows–Bradley–Terry ranking model pp. 2621-2644

Amadou Sawadogo, Simplice Dossou-Gbété and Dominique Lafon

Volume 44, issue 13, 2017

Statistical monitoring of a web server for error rates: a bivariate time-series copula-based modeling approach pp. 2287-2300

Anderson Ara, Francisco Louzada and Carlos A. R. Diniz

Joint modeling of bottle use, daily milk intake from bottles, and daily energy intake in toddlers pp. 2301-2316

Yungtai Lo

Extraction of sea temperature in the Barents Sea by a scale space multiresolution method – prospects for Atlantic salmon pp. 2317-2336

Leena Pasanen, Päivi Laukkanen-Nevala, Ilkka Launonen, Sergey Prusov, Lasse Holmström, Eero Niemelä and Jaakko Erkinaro

Combined asymmetric spatial weights matrix with application to housing prices pp. 2337-2353

Haiyong Zhang and Xinyu Wang

Jointly modeling skew longitudinal survival data with missingness and mismeasured covariates pp. 2354-2367

Tao Lu

A generalized binomial exponential 2 distribution: modeling and applications to hydrologic events pp. 2368-2387

A. Asgharzadeh, Hassan S. Bakouch and M. Habibi

A link-free sparse group variable selection method for single-index model pp. 2388-2400

Bilin Zeng, Xuerong Meggie Wen and Lixing Zhu

Modelling and classification of species abundance: a case study in the Barro Colorado Island plot pp. 2401-2409

Abdollah Jalilian

A Bayesian model for multiple change point to extremes, with application to environmental and financial data pp. 2410-2426

Fernando Ferraz do Nascimento and Wyara Vanesa Moura e Silva

Modeling of paired zero-inflated continuous data without breaking down paired designs pp. 2427-2443

Tiago R. Pellegrini, M. Tariqul Hasan and Renjun Ma

Outlier detection with Mahalanobis square distance: incorporating small sample correction factor pp. 2444-2457

Meltem Ekiz and O.Ufuk Ekiz

Volume 44, issue 12, 2017

Variation in caesarean delivery rates across hospitals: a Bayesian semi-parametric approach pp. 2095-2107

M. Cannas, C. Conversano, F. Mola and E. Sironi

Local influence in seemingly unrelated regression model with ridge estimate pp. 2108-2124

Z. Naji, A. Rasekh and E. L. Boone

Partially linear models and their applications to change point detection of chemical process data pp. 2125-2141

Clécio S. Ferreira, Camila B. Zeller, Aparecida M. S. Mimura and Júlio C. J. Silva

Self-selection and direct estimation of across-regime correlation parameter pp. 2142-2160

Giorgio Calzolari and Antonino Di Pino

Difference-based matrix perturbation method for semi-parametric regression with multicollinearity pp. 2161-2171

Chien-Chia L. Huang, Yow-Jen Jou and Hsun-Jung Cho

Multivariate analysis of variance for functional data pp. 2172-2189

T. Górecki and Ł. Smaga

Analysis of a marker for cancer of the thyroid with a limit of detection pp. 2190-2203

Nicholas T. Longford, José Rafael Tovar Cuevas and Carlos Alvear

A new confidence interval in errors-in-variables model with known error variance pp. 2204-2221

Liang Yan, Rui Wang and Xingzhong Xu

Objective Bayesian analysis based on upper record values from two-parameter Rayleigh distribution with partial information pp. 2222-2237

Jung In Seo and Yongku Kim

Marshall–Olkin distribution: parameter estimation and application to cancer data pp. 2238-2250

Yeşim Güney, Yetkin Tuaç and Olcay Arslan

An evaluation of ridge estimator in linear mixed models: an example from kidney failure data pp. 2251-2269

M. Revan Özkale and Funda Can

Multiple linear regression with compositional response and covariates pp. 2270-2285

Jiajia Chen, Xiaoqin Zhang and Shengjia Li

Volume 44, issue 11, 2017

Functional analysis of high-content high-throughput imaging data pp. 1903-1919

Xiaoqi Jiang, Steven Wink, Bob van de Water and Annette Kopp-Schneider

Joint GEEs for multivariate correlated data with incomplete binary outcomes pp. 1920-1937

G. Inan and R. Yucel

Checking identifiability of covariance parameters in linear mixed effects models pp. 1938-1946

Wei Wang

Inference with three-level prior distributions in quantile regression problems pp. 1947-1959

Rahim Alhamzawi

Multiple-index varying-coefficient models for longitudinal data pp. 1960-1978

Hongmei Lin, Wenchao Xu, Riquan Zhang, Jianhong Shi and Yuedong Wang

A varying coefficient approach to estimating hedonic housing price functions and their quantiles pp. 1979-1999

Alan T. K. Wan, Shangyu Xie and Yong Zhou

A likelihood-based approach for multivariate one-sided tests with missing data pp. 2000-2016

Guohai Zhou, Lang Wu, Rollin Brant and J. Mark Ansermino

Estimation of flood frequencies from data sets with outliers using mixed distribution functions pp. 2017-2035

Milan Stojković, Stevan Prohaska and Nikola Zlatanović

Simultaneous confidence bands for restricted logistic regression models pp. 2036-2051

Lucy Kerns and John T. Chen

Bayesian inference for sinh-normal/independent nonlinear regression models pp. 2052-2074

Filidor Vilca, Caio L. N. Azevedo and N. Balakrishnan

A distribution-free multivariate CUSUM control chart using dynamic control limits pp. 2075-2093

Wenjuan Liang, Xiaolong Pu and Dongdong Xiang

Volume 44, issue 10, 2017

Principal component analysis-based muscle identification for myoelectric-controlled exoskeleton knee pp. 1707-1720

I.S. Dhindsa, R. Agarwal and H.S. Ryait

Stochastic correlation coefficient ensembles for variable selection pp. 1721-1742

JinXing Che and YouLong Yang

Inflated assessments of disability pp. 1743-1760

Nicholas T. Longford

Spatial prediction of crystalline defects observed in molecular dynamic simulations of plastic damage pp. 1761-1784

Geoffrey Colin L. Peterson, Dong Li, Brian J. Reich and Donald Brenner

Bayesian networks and the assessment of universities' value added pp. 1785-1806

F. Cugnata, G. Perucca and S. Salini

Marginal zero-inflated regression models for count data pp. 1807-1826

Jacob Martin and Daniel B. Hall

Marginal models for the association structure of hierarchical binary responses pp. 1827-1838

André G. F. C. Costa, Enrico A. Colosimo, Aline B. M. Vaz, José Luiz P. Silva and Leila D. Amorim

A robust variable screening method for high-dimensional data pp. 1839-1855

Tao Wang, Lin Zheng, Zhonghua Li and Haiyang Liu

Nonparametric estimation of mean residual quantile function under right censoring pp. 1856-1874

P.G. Sankaran and N.N. Midhu

A comparison of risk transfer strategies for a portfolio of life annuities based on RORAC pp. 1875-1892

Fabio Baione, Paolo De Angelis, Massimiliano Menzietti and Agostino Tripodi

Does diversification promote risk reduction and profitability raise? Estimation of dynamic impacts using the pooled mean group model pp. 1893-1901

Ying-Hsiu Chen and Po-Lin Lai

Volume 44, issue 9, 2017

Dependence between oil and commodities markets using time-varying Archimedean copulas and effectiveness of hedging strategies pp. 1509-1542

Ahmed Ghorbel, Wajdi Hamma and Anis Jarboui

Bayesian inference for random coefficient dynamic panel data models pp. 1543-1559

Fang Liu, Peng Zhang, Ibrahim Erkan and Dylan S. Small

A spatial analysis of health and pharmaceutical firm survival pp. 1560-1575

Giuseppe Arbia, Giuseppe Espa, Diego Giuliani and Rocco Micciolo

Estimation and prediction for the generalized inverted exponential distribution based on progressively first-failure-censored data with application pp. 1576-1608

Essam A. Ahmed

Complexity in applying spatial analysis to describe heterogeneous air-trapping in thoracic imaging data pp. 1609-1629

Eran A. Barnoy, Hyun J. Kim and David W. Gjertson

Bayesian estimation for a mixture of simplex distributions with an unknown number of components: HDI analysis in Brazil pp. 1630-1643

Rosineide Fernando da Paz, Jorge Luis Bazán and Luis Aparecido Milan

Comparison and robustness of the REML, ML, MIVQUE estimators for multi-level random mediation model pp. 1644-1661

Ying Liu, Fang Luo, Danhui Zhang and Hongyun Liu

Penalized least squares smoothing of two-dimensional mortality tables with imposed smoothness pp. 1662-1679

Eliud Silva and Víctor M. Guerrero

Investigating the sensitivity function's monotony of a health-related index pp. 1680-1706

Fragkiskos Bersimis, Demosthenes Panagiotakos and Malvina Vamvakari

Volume 44, issue 8, 2017

Cusum control for data following the von Mises distribution pp. 1319-1332

Douglas M. Hawkins and F. Lombard

Nonparametric predictive inference for stock returns pp. 1333-1349

Rebecca M. Baker, Tahani Coolen-Maturi and Frank P. A. Coolen

Comparison of asymmetric stochastic volatility models under different correlation structures pp. 1350-1368

Zhongxian Men, Don McLeish, Adam W. Kolkiewicz and Tony S. Wirjanto

Estimation on dependent right censoring scheme in an ordinary bivariate geometric distribution pp. 1369-1384

N. Davarzani, L. Golparvar, A. Parsian and R. Peeters

Daily soil temperature modeling using ‘panel-data’ concept pp. 1385-1401

A. Mahabbati, A. Izady, M. Mousavi Baygi, K. Davary and S. M. Hasheminia

A generalized pivotal quantity approach to portfolio selection pp. 1402-1420

Philip L.H. Yu, Thomas Mathew and Yuanyuan Zhu

Employee turnover forecasting for human resource management based on time series analysis pp. 1421-1440

Xiaojuan Zhu, William Seaver, Rapinder Sawhney, Shuguang Ji, Bruce Holt, Gurudatt Bhaskar Sanil and Girish Upreti

Designing and analyzing a mixture experiment to optimize the mixing proportions of polyvinyl chloride composites pp. 1441-1465

Safwan A. Altarazi and Rula M. Allaf

Comparison of dichotomized and distributional approaches in rare event clinical trial design: a fixed Bayesian design pp. 1466-1478

Yang Lei, Susan Carlson, Lisa N. Yelland, Maria Makrides, Robert Gibson and Byron J. Gajewski

Estimation based on progressive first-failure censoring from exponentiated exponential distribution pp. 1479-1494

Heba S. Mohammed, Saieed F. Ateya and Essam K. AL-Hussaini

Classification of form under heterogeneity and non-isotropic errors pp. 1495-1508

Farag Shuweihdi, Charles C. Taylor and Arief Gusnanto

Volume 44, issue 7, 2017

An approach to measure distance between compositional diet estimates containing essential zeros pp. 1137-1152

Connie Stewart

A new cure rate model based on the Yule–Simon distribution with application to a melanoma data set pp. 1153-1164

Diego I. Gallardo, Héctor W. Gómez and Heleno Bolfarine

Bayesian prediction of unobserved values for Type-II censored data pp. 1165-1180

Tatsuya Kubota and Takeshi Kurosawa

Path analysis and determining the distribution of indirect effects via simulation pp. 1181-1210

Öznur İşçi Güneri, Atilla Göktaş and Uğur Kayalı

Comparison of bootstrap estimation intervals to forecast arithmetic mean and median air passenger demand pp. 1211-1224

Rafael Bernardo Carmona-Benítez and María Rosa Nieto

Use of jump process to model mobility in massive multiplayer on-line games pp. 1225-1247

Izabella A. R. A. Santos, Denise Duarte and Marcelo Azevedo Costa

Bayesian modeling of dynamic extreme values: extension of generalized extreme value distributions with latent stochastic processes pp. 1248-1268

Jouchi Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Kunihama and Yasuhiro Omori

Estimating the turning point location in shifted exponential model of time series pp. 1269-1281

Camillo Cammarota

Longitudinal shape analysis by using the spherical coordinates pp. 1282-1295

M. Moghimbeygi and M. Golalizadeh

Bivariate multilevel models for the analysis of mathematics and reading pupils' achievements pp. 1296-1317

C. Masci, F. Ieva, Tommaso Agasisti and A. M. Paganoni

Volume 44, issue 6, 2017

Failure probability estimation under additional subsystem information with application to semiconductor burn-in pp. 955-967

D. Kurz, H. Lewitschnig and J. Pilz

S-estimator in partially linear regression models pp. 968-977

Yunlu Jiang

Learning-based EM algorithm for normal-inverse Gaussian mixture model with application to extrasolar planets pp. 978-999

Wen-Liang Hung and Shou-Jen Chang-Chien

Continuous single attribute control chart for Markov-dependent processes pp. 1000-1012

M. P. Gadre, S. B. Adnaik and R.N. Rattihalli

Inference about regression parameters using highly stratified survey count data with over-dispersion and repeated measurements pp. 1013-1030

S. Wang, N. G. Cadigan and H. P. Benoît

A proportional odds transition model for ordinal responses with an application to pig behaviour pp. 1031-1046

I. A. R. de Lara, J. P. Hinde, A. C. de Castro and I. J. O. da Silva

Negative variance components for non-negative hierarchical data with correlation, over-, and/or underdispersion pp. 1047-1063

I. R. C. Oliveira, G. Molenberghs, G. Verbeke, C. G. B. Demétrio and C. T. S. Dias

Application of hidden semi-Markov models for the seismic hazard assessment of the North and South Aegean Sea, Greece pp. 1064-1085

C. E. Pertsinidou, G. Tsaklidis, E. Papadimitriou and N. Limnios

An statistic for fixed effects in the generalized linear mixed model pp. 1086-1105

Byron C. Jaeger, Lloyd J. Edwards, Kalyan Das and Pranab K. Sen

New goodness of fit tests for the Cauchy distribution pp. 1106-1121

M. Mahdizadeh and Ehsan Zamanzade

Nonparametric tests for strictly increasing virtual valuations pp. 1122-1136

Rui Fang and Xiaohu Li

Volume 44, issue 5, 2017

A new four-parameter lifetime distribution pp. 767-797

Mojtaba Alizadeh, Seyyed Fazel Bagheri, Mohammad Alizadeh and Saralees Nadarajah

Flexible objective Bayesian linear regression with applications in survival analysis pp. 798-810

Francisco J. Rubio and Keming Yu

Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimations of the inverted exponentiated half logistic distribution under progressive Type II censoring pp. 811-832

Kyeongjun Lee and Youngseuk Cho

Generalized linear models with covariate measurement error and unknown link function pp. 833-852

Nels Johnson and Inyoung Kim

Bayesian elastic net single index quantile regression pp. 853-871

Taha Alshaybawee, Habshah Midi and Rahim Alhamzawi

A sequential discrimination procedure for two almost identically shaped wrapped distributions pp. 872-881

Mian Arif Shams Adnan and Shongkour Roy

A practical method to calculate probabilities: illustrative example from the electronic industry business pp. 882-896

Douglas Moura Miranda and Samuel Vieira Conceição

Correlated random effects regression analysis for a log-normally distributed variable pp. 897-915

Rabindra Nath Das and Anis Chandra Mukhopadhyay

Bayesian estimation and prediction based on lognormal record values pp. 916-940

Sukhdev Singh, Yogesh Mani Tripathi and Shuo-Jye Wu

Inference for the common mean of several Birnbaum–Saunders populations pp. 941-954

Xu Guo, Hecheng Wu, Gaorong Li and Qiuyue Li

Volume 44, issue 4, 2017

Intervention time series analysis of voluntary, counselling and testing on HIV infections in West African sub-region: the case of Ghana pp. 571-582

Patrick Aboagye-Sarfo, James Cross and Ute Mueller

Fuzzy clustering of probability density functions pp. 583-601

Thao Nguyentrang and Tai Vovan

Critical values improvement for the standard normal homogeneity test by combining Monte Carlo and regression approaches pp. 602-619

Michele Rienzner and Francesca Ieva

Local influence diagnostics for generalized linear mixed models with overdispersion pp. 620-641

Trias Wahyuni Rakhmawati, Geert Molenberghs, Geert Verbeke and Christel Faes

Statistical measurement of the inventory shortage cost pp. 642-648

Feng Xu

A new Bayesian wavelet thresholding estimator of nonparametric regression pp. 649-666

M. Afshari, F. Lak and B. Gholizadeh

Seemingly unrelated systems of econometric equations pp. 667-684

Eudoxia Kakarantza and Spyridon D. Symeonides

Comparison of data analysis procedures for real-time nanoparticle sampling data using classical regression and ARIMA models pp. 685-699

Seunghon Ham, Sunju Kim, Naroo Lee, Pilje Kim, Igchun Eom, Byoungcheun Lee, Perng-Jy Tsai, Kiyoung Lee and Chungsik Yoon

A high breakdown, high efficiency and bounded influence modified GM estimator based on support vector regression pp. 700-714

Waleed Dhhan, Sohel Rana and Habshah Midi

Distribution analysis of train interval journey time employing the censored model with shifting character pp. 715-733

Maosheng Li, Zhengqiu Liu, Yonghong Zhang, Weijun Liu and Feng Shi

Exploratory tools for outlier detection in compositional data with structural zeros pp. 734-752

M. Templ, K. Hron and P. Filzmoser

More efficient logistic analysis using moving extreme ranked set sampling pp. 753-766

Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Daniel Linder and Arpita Chatterjee

Volume 44, issue 3, 2017

-distance and classification problem by Bayesian method pp. 385-401

Tai Vovan

Coefficient of variation: the second-order alternative pp. 402-415

Tarald O. Kvålseth

Application of trajectories from growth curve in identification of longitudinal biomarker for the multivariate survival data pp. 416-426

Feng-shou Ko

Spatio-temporal model for crop yield forecasting pp. 427-440

Panudet Saengseedam and Nantachai Kantanantha

A nonlinear mixed-effects model for multivariate longitudinal data with partially observed outcomes with application to HIV disease dynamics pp. 441-456

A. G. Luwanda and H. G. Mwambi

On stratified bivariate ranked set sampling with optimal allocation for naïve and ratio estimators pp. 457-473

Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, Daniel Linder, Arpita Chatterjee, Yisong Huang and Robert Vogel

Empirical likelihood inferences for varying coefficient partially nonlinear models pp. 474-492

Xiaoshuang Zhou, Peixin Zhao and Xiuli Wang

Split-plot designs for multistage experimentation pp. 493-510

Murat Kulahci and John Tyssedal

Dealing with big data: comparing dimension reduction and shrinkage regression methods pp. 511-532

Hamideh D. Hamedani and Sara Sadat Moosavi

Proximal support vector machine techniques on medical prediction outcome pp. 533-553

Krystallenia Drosou and Christos Koukouvinos

Elite players’ perceptions of football playing surfaces: a mixed effects ordinal logistic regression model of players’ perceptions pp. 554-570

A. Owen, A. C. Smith, P. Osei-Owusu, A. Harland and J. R. Roberts

Volume 44, issue 2, 2017

Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures pp. 197-211

Tatjana Miljkovic, Saleem Shaik and Dragan Miljkovic

Weighting variables in Kohonen competitive learning algorithms pp. 212-232

Wen-Liang Hung, De-Hua Chen and Jenn-Hwai Yang

A new log-location regression model: estimation, influence diagnostics and residual analysis pp. 233-252

Rodrigo R. Pescim, Edwin M. M. Ortega, Gauss M. Cordeiro and Morad Alizadeh

Bayesian variable selection and estimation in maximum entropy quantile regression pp. 253-269

Shiyi Tu, Min Wang and Xiaoqian Sun

Multiple imputation for ordinal longitudinal data with monotone missing data patterns pp. 270-287

A.Y. Kombo, H. Mwambi and G. Molenberghs

The weighted general linear model for longitudinal medical cost data – an application in colorectal cancer pp. 288-307

Y. T. Hwang, C. H. Huang, W. L. Yeh and Y. D. Shen

Statistics and recognition for software birthmark based on clustering analysis pp. 308-324

YangXia Luo

Monitoring foreclosure rates with a spatially risk-adjusted Bernoulli CUSUM chart for concurrent observations pp. 325-341

Matthew J. Keefe, Christopher T. Franck and William H. Woodall

A new test to detect monotonic and non-monotonic types of heteroscedasticity pp. 342-361

Reşit Çelik

Testing of homogeneity of variance and autocorrelation coefficients of nonlinear mixed models with AR(1) errors based on M-estimation pp. 362-375

Huihui Sun

Economic design of acceptance sampling plans for truncated life test using Frechet distribution pp. 376-384

D. Malathi and S. Muthulakshmi

Volume 44, issue 1, 2017

Editorial pp. 1-2

Jie Chen

Inference for a series system with dependent masked data under progressive interval censoring pp. 3-15

Jing Cai, Yimin Shi and Bin Liu

Analysis of ranked data in randomized blocks when there are missing values pp. 16-23

D. J. Best and J. C. W. Rayner

Missing data methods for arbitrary missingness with small samples pp. 24-39

Daniel McNeish

The equivalence of two approaches to incorporating variance uncertainty in sample size calculations for linear statistical models pp. 40-56

Gwowen Shieh

Beta approximation of ratio distribution and its application to next generation sequencing read counts pp. 57-70

Shengping Yang and Zhide Fang

A continuous-time HMM approach to modeling the magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes pp. 71-88

Shaochuan Lu

Real-time monitoring of carbon monoxide using value-at-risk measure and control charting pp. 89-108

Sotirios Bersimis, Stavros Degiannakis and Dimitrios Georgakellos

Competing risks quantile regression at work: in-depth exploration of the role of public child support for the duration of maternity leave pp. 109-122

Stephan Dlugosz, Simon M.S. Lo and Ralf Wilke

A control chart for multivariate Poisson distribution using repetitive sampling pp. 123-136

Muhammad Aslam, G. Srinivasa Rao, Liaquat Ahmad and Chi-Hyuck Jun

A robust statistical approach to select adequate error distributions for financial returns pp. 137-161

J. Hambuckers and C. Heuchenne

Shrinkage estimation in lognormal regression model for censored data pp. 162-180

Shakhawat Hossain and Hatem A. Howlader

Fiscal decentralization, financial efficiency and upgrading the industrial structure: an empirical analysis of a spatial heterogeneity model pp. 181-196

Jianmin Liu, Xiaomei Hu and Jinguang Wu