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In this expository paper we give an overview of some statistical methods for the monitoring of social networks. We discuss the advantages and limitations of various methods as well as some relevant issues. One of our primary contributions…
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Count data modeling has been extensively applied in medical sciences to analyze various healthcare datasets. Numerous probability models have been developed to address diverse aspects of healthcare data. In this study, we propose a novel…