Keyword: statistics: distributions

Found 548 papers in total
Modelling of extremal events in insurance and finance
1994,
Extremal events play an increasingly important role in stochastic modelling in...
Probabilistic approximations based on GPH distributions
1994,
The distribution of the random sum of i.i.d. exponential random variables is called a...
The voice of the customer
1993,
In recent years, many U.S. and Japanese firms have adopted Quality Function Deployment...
Modelling capability
1993,
A survey is given of the concept of capability and the usual underlying assumption of...
An optimum maintenance strategy for a vertical boring machine system
1993,
The failure pattern of a costly vertical boring machine system, a repairable system,...
Failure predictions in repairable multi-component systems
1993,
Multi-component repairable systems cannot be modeled by continuous distributions, such...
Representing and learning distributions with the aid of a neural network
1993,
This paper describes a method by which a neural network learns to fit a distribution...
Filtered sampling from populations with heterogeneous event frequencies
1993,
A hierarchical model is developed to account for selection biases that result from...
What is the opportunity cost of mean-variance investment strategies?
1993,
An analytical framework is set up to evaluate the foregone opportunity cost of...
Limit distributions for compounded sums of extreme order statistics
1992,
Let be the order statistics of the first elements from a sequence of independent...
On the number of times where a simple random walk reaches its maximum
1992,
Let Q n denote the number of times where a simple random walk reaches its maximum,...
On the total heights of random rooted trees
1992,
Denote by S n the set of all distinct rooted trees with n labeled vertices. Define...
New models for Markov random fields
1992,
The Hammersley-Clifford theorem gives the form that the joint probability density (or...
Estimating customer and time averages
1993,
In this paper the authors establish a joint central limit theorem for customer and...
Portfolio selection and asset pricing-Three-parameter framework
1993,
Idiosyncratic security risks are modelled as following a joint spherical distribution...
An asymptotic optimal design
1991,
The problem of designing an experiment to estimate the product of the means of two...
Exact expressions for the first two moments of job flow time in a job shop
1992,
This paper presents analytical expressions for the moments of job flow time in a job...
An analysis of bush fire data in the state of Victoria
1992,
In this report, the authors are dealing with the analysis of some bush fire data in...
Analysis of the duality between linear and loglinear families of distributions by geometric programming
1990,
Given a family of probability distributions defined by linear internal constraints and...
Under-reporting of road traffic accidents
1991,
Many potentially reportable road accidents are not reported to the police and...
An aggregation/disaggregation algorithm for computing the stationary distribution of a large Markov chain
1992,
A new aggregation/disaggregation iterative procedure for computing the stationary...
Numerical inversion of probability generating functions
1992,
Random quantities of interest in operations research models can often be determined...
Waiting time distribution in (T,S) inventory systems
1992,
This paper provides a concise derivation of the customer waiting time distribution in...
Crossing properties of reliability functions
1992,
The authors give short proofs by total positivity arguments that: (1) the reliability...
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