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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-10 Y. Malevergne , D. Sornette

An innovative sampling strategy is proposed, which applies to large-scale population-based surveys targeting a rare trait that is unevenly spread over a geographical area of interest. Our proposal is characterised by the ability to tailor…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-07 Fulvia Mecatti , Charalambos Sismanidis , Emanuela Furfaro

In this paper we consider Bayesian estimation for the parameters of inverse Gaussian distribution. Our emphasis is on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. We provide complete implementation of the Gibbs sampler algorithm. Assuming an…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-17 B. N. Pandey , Pulastya Bandyopadhyay

The aim of the present work is to investigate the performances of a specific Bayesian control chart used to compare two processes. The chart monitors the ratio of the percentiles of a key characteristic associated with the processes. The…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-07 Pasquale Erto

This paper explores the extension of the classical two-parameter Weibull distribution to a four-parameter Harris extended Weibull (HEW) distribution. The flexibility of this probability distribution is illustrated by the varying shapes of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-01 Prithul Chaturvedi , Himanshu Pokhriyal

Doubly robust estimators combine an inverse probability weighting estimator and a mass imputation estimator. Several doubly robust estimators for estimating the population mean (or prevalence) of an outcome have been proposed for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-11 Shaun R Seaman , Tommy Nyberg , Anne M Presanis

In this article, we develop nonparametric inference methods for comparing survival data across two samples, which are beneficial for clinical trials of novel cancer therapies where long-term survival is a critical outcome. These therapies,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-05 Yi-Cheng Tai , Weijing Wang , Martin T. Wells

Millions of measuring instruments are verified each year before being placed on the markets worldwide. In the EU, such initial conformity assessments are regulated by the Measuring Instruments Directive (MID). The MID modules F and F1 on…

Applications · Statistics 2021-04-23 Katy Klauenberg , Cord A. Müller , Clemens Elster

In bipartite incidence graph sampling, the target study units may be formed as connected population elements, which are distinct to the units of sampling and there may exist generally more than one way by which a given study unit can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Pedro García-Segador , Li-Chun Zhang

Causal inference with time-to-event outcomes is fundamental in various scientific studies. In a static setup with fitted propensity scores, weighted Kaplan-Meier estimation for survival probabilities and weighted Breslow-Peto estimation for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-18 Wenfu Xu , Yi Zhang , Tobias Gerhard , Zhiqiang Tan

This paper adopts a Bayesian nonparametric mixture model where the mixing distribution belongs to the wide class of normalized homogeneous completely random measures. We propose a truncation method for the mixing distribution by discarding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Raffaele Argiento , Ilaria Bianchini , Alessandra Guglielmi

We obtain a reliability acceptance sampling plan for independent competing risk data under interval censoring schemes using the Bayesian approach. At first, the Bayesian reliability acceptance sampling plan is obtained where the decision…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-21 Biswabrata Pradhan , Rathin Das

The determination of the sample size required by a crossover trial typically depends on the specification of one or more variance components. Uncertainty about the value of these parameters at the design stage means that there is often a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-28 Michael Grayling , Adrian Mander , James Wason

In engineering systems, it is usually assumed that lifetimes of components are independent and identically distributed (iid). But, the failure of a component results in a higher load on the remaining components and hence causes the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-18 M. Doostparast , M. Hashempour , E. Velayati Moghaddam 1

In this paper, we introduce the weighted cumulative residual Mathai--Haubold entropy and establish its fundamental properties. A dynamic version is developed, and its behavior under linear transformations is studied. Bounds and explicit…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Anija C. R , Smitha S , Sudheesh K. Kattumannil

Causal inference is crucial for understanding the true impact of interventions, policies, or actions, enabling informed decision-making and providing insights into the underlying mechanisms that shape our world. In this paper, we establish…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-26 Jingyue Huang , Changbao Wu , Leilei Zeng

A number of models for generating statistical data in various fields of insurance, including life insurance, pensions, and general insurance have been considered. It is shown that the insurance statistics data, as a rule, are truncated and…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-16 Valery Baskakov , Anna Bartunova

We propose approaches for testing implementations of Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods as well as of general Monte Carlo methods. Based on statistical hypothesis tests, these approaches can be used in a unit testing framework to, for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-21 Axel Gandy , James Scott

The first step in statistical reliability studies of coherent systems is the estimation of the reliability of each system component. For the cases of parallel and series systems the literature is abundant. It seems that the present paper is…

This article proposes a new method of truncated estimation to estimate the tail index $\alpha$ of the extremely heavy-tailed distribution with infinite mean or variance. We not only present two truncated estimators $\hat{\alpha}$ and…

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