Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications

The traditional estimation of Mixture regression models is based on the normal assumption of component errors and thus is sensitive to outliers and heavy-tailed errors. In this paper, we propose a robust Mixture regression models in which a mixture of slash distributions is assumed for the errors. Using...

In actuarial literature, we come across a diverse range of probability distributions for fitting insurance loss data. Popular distributions are lognormal, log-t, various versions of Pareto, log-logistic, Weibull, gamma and its variants and a generalized beta of the second kind, among others. In this...

The available heteroscedastic hierarchical models perform well for a wide range of real-world data, but for the data sets which exhibit heteroscedasticity mainly due to the lack of constant means rather than unequal variances, the existing models tend to overestimate the variance of the second level...

In the present paper, a two-sided test in a family of multivariate distribution according to the Mahalanobis distance with mean vector and positive definite matrix is considered. First, a family of multivariate distribution is introduced, then using the likelihood ratio method a test statistic is computed....

In certain experimental investigations involving discrete distributions external factors may induce measurement error in the form of misclassification. For instance, a situation may arise where certain values are erroneously reported; such a situation termed as modified or misclassified has been studied...

In this paper some generalized exponential-type chain estimators have been proposed for the finite population mean in the presence of nonresponse under stratified two-phase sampling when mean of another auxiliary variable is readily available. The expressions for the bias and mean square error of proposed...

The output of an engineering process is the result of several inputs, which may be homogeneous or heterogeneous and to study them, we need a model which should be flexible enough to summarize efficiently the nature of such processes. As compared to simple models, mixture models of underlying lifetime...

For square contingency tables with ordered categories, there would be some situations that one would like to analyze them by using collapsed 3×3 tables combining some adjacent categories in the original table. This paper considers the marginal homogeneity for collapsed tables and proposes a measure which...

This paper proposes a new flexible four-parameter model called Marshall–Olkin power generalized Weibull (MOPGW) distribution which provides symmetrical, reversed-J shaped, left-skewed and right-skewed densities, and bathtub, unimodal, increasing, constant, decreasing, J shaped, and reversed-J shaped...

A new test statistic is proposed to test the equality of two normal means when the data is partially paired and partially unpaired. The test statistic is based on a linear combination of the differences of both paired and unpaired sample means. Using t-distribution as the approximate null distribution,...

The problems of comparing several exponential distributions based on type II censored samples are considered. Likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) for comparing several location parameters, comparing several scale parameters and for homogeneity of distributions are derived. The LRTs for all three problems are...

Doubly truncated data are sometimes encountered in several applications, mainly in survival and astronomical data analysis. This occurs when the data falls between two points. In this study, we focus on the Shannon entropy measure of doubly truncated random variables. We propose ordering and various...

In this paper we propose a new three-parameters lifetime distribution with increasing, decreasing and bathtub failure rate depending on its parameters. The properties of the proposed distribution are discussed, including explicit algebraic formulae for its reliability and failure rate functions, quantiles...

The Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis has been related with the Singular Value Decomposition. Several problems occur when this comparative is done. Data class restrictions and the existence of several local optima mask the relation, being a formal analogy without any real significance. Moreover,...

In this study, we have focused to propose a flexible model that demonstrates increasing, decreasing and upside-down bathtub-shaped density and failure rate functions. The proposed model refers to as the exponentiated power function (EPF) distribution. Some mathematical and reliability measures are developed...

Circular regular graph designs play an important role in the design of experiments where most of the balanced incomplete block designs require a large number of blocks. In this article, circular regular graph designs are constructed in blocks of size four through cyclic shifts. Without studying the complete...

This paper we introduced a new distribution namely the multivariate Esscher transformed Laplace distribution. Various properties of the distribution are studied and the applications are discussed. Further we develop an autoregressive process with multivariate ETL marginal and study its properties. A...

In this paper a generalized exponential distribution is considered for analyzing left-censored lifetime data as such mechanisms are applicable when the observations become available in an ordered manner with some cases where the origin and the event both occur prior to the start of follow-up. In the...