Keyword: statistics: distributions

Found 548 papers in total
Estimation in coherent reliability systems through copulas
2011,
The problem of estimating the parameter of a common distribution of components'...
Economic statistical design for x‐bar control charts under non‐normal distributed data with Weibull in‐control time
2011,
This paper proposes an approach which simultaneously considers the properties of cost...
Design of progressively censored group sampling plans for Weibull distributions: An optimization problem
2011,
Optimization algorithms provides efficient solutions to many statistical problems....
Surrogate modeling approximation using a mixture of experts based on Expectation-Maximization (EM) joint estimation
2011,
An automatic method to combine several local surrogate models is presented. This...
Belief functions induced by multimodalprobability density functions, an application to the search and rescue problem
2010,
In this paper, we propose a new method to generate a continuous belief functions from...
A New Goodness‐of‐Fit Test for Event Forecasting and Its Application to Credit Defaults
2011,
We develop a new goodness‐of‐fit test for validating the performance of...
On the upper truncated Weibull distribution and its reliability implications
2011,
The characteristics and application of the truncated Weibull distribution are studied...
Modeling the Yield–Evaporation–Spill in the Reservoir Storage Process: The Regulation Triangle Diagram
2010,
From the dimensionless reservoir water budget equation, a graphical method to model...
Probability masses fitting in the analysis of manufacturing flow lines
2011,
The analysis of manufacturing systems with finite capacity and with general service...
On approximating the distribution of random distances within and between certain regions of space
2007,
A moment-based methodology is proposed for approximating the distribution of the...
A Computable Plug-In Estimator of Minimum Volume Sets for Novelty Detection
2010,
A minimum volume set of a probability density is a region of minimum size among the...
Evaluation of P(Xt>Yt) when both Xt and Yt are residual lifetimes of two systems
2010,
Let the random variables X and Y denote the lifetimes of two systems. In reliability...
Generalized diagonal band copulas with two-sided generating densities
2010,
Copulas are joint continuous distributions with uniform marginals and have been...
Asset pricing and portfolio selection based on the multivariate extended skew-Student-t distribution
2010,
The returns on most financial assets exhibit kurtosis and many also have probability...
Estimating steady-state distributions via simulation-generated histograms
2008,
This paper discusses a unified approach for estimating, via a histogram, the...
What benefits are to be derived from improved farm program planning approaches? – The role of time series models and stochastic optimization
2007,
This paper examines whether there is room for improvement in farm program decisions...
On decomposition of m × m statistical tables based on grade dependence measures
2000,
The aim of the paper is two-fold. The first is to introduce, for any given partition...
Bayesian single and double variable sampling plans for the Weibull distribution with censoring
2007,
The sampling inspection problem is one of the main research topics in quality control....
Reduction in mean residual life in the presence of a constant competing risk
2008,
The addition of a constant ‘competing risk’ corresponding to an...
Characterization of a class of lifetime distributions
2006,
The author has previously introduced the ageing class MTFR (Mean Time to Failure or...
Modified normal demand distributions in (R, S)-inventory control
2006,
To model demand, the normal distribution is by far the most popular; the disadvantage...
Preventive maintenance for inspected systems with additive subexponential shock magnitudes
2007,
We examine the long-run average availability and cost rate of a maintained system...
Early discovery of individual firm insolvency
2007,
This paper proposes a new methodology for the early discovery of individual firm...
Analysis of defaulters’ behaviour using the Poisson-mixture approach
2007,
Credit scoring is of major interest to financial institutions as a means of...
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