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  1. For any continuous baseline G distribution, Zografos and Balakrishnan (Statistical Methodology 6:344–362, 2009) introduced the gamma-generated family of distributions with an extra shape parameter. Based on th...

    Authors: Gauss M. Cordeiro, Antonio E. Gomes, Cibele Q. da-Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:24
  2. Erlang renewal models, also called chi-squared models, provide a tractable model for genetic recombination that exhibits positive interference. Closed form expressions for multilocus probabilities are derived ...

    Authors: John P. Nolan
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:10
  3. Poisson-Tweedie mixtures are the Poisson mixtures for which the mixing measure is generated by those members of the family of Tweedie distributions whose support is non-negative. This class of non-negative int...

    Authors: Vladimir V. Vinogradov and Richard B. Paris
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:14
  4. Although there have been fairly recent advances regarding inference for three-dimensional rotation data, there are still many areas of interest yet to be explored. One such area involves comparing the rotation...

    Authors: Melissa A. Bingham and Marissa L. Scray
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:19
  5. The Poisson, geometric and Bernoulli distributions are special cases of a flexible count distribution, namely the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (CMP) distribution – a two-parameter generalization of the Poisson distr...

    Authors: Kimberly F. Sellers, Andrew W. Swift and Kimberly S. Weems
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:22

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:23

  6. Rank correlation is invariant to bijective marginal transformations, but it is not immune to confounding. Assuming a categorical confounding variable is observed, the author proposes weighted coefficients of c...

    Authors: Jean-François Plante
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:20
  7. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of Gini-Simpson’s diversity index (GS) is widely used but suffers from large bias when the number of species is large or infinite. We propose a new estimator of the GS in...

    Authors: Lukun Zheng and Jiancheng Jiang
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:12
  8. In Punta del Este, a resort town in Uruguay, real-estate property is in demand by both domestic and foreign buyers. There are several stages of selling residential units: before, during, and after the actual c...

    Authors: Martín Egozcue, Jiang Wu and Ričardas Zitikis
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:13
  9. In this work, a new five-parameter Kumaraswamy transmuted Pareto (KwTP) distribution is introduced and studied. We discuss various mathematical and statistical properties of the distribution including obtaining e...

    Authors: Sher B. Chhetri, Alfred A. Akinsete, Gokarna Aryal and Hongwei Long
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:11
  10. We construct a d-dimensional discrete multivariate distribution for which any proper subset of its components belongs to a specific family of distributions. However, the joint d-dimensional distribution fails to ...

    Authors: Sugata Ghosh, Subhajit Dutta and Marc G. Genton
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:7
  11. We introduce and study general mathematical properties of a new generator of continuous distributions with three extra parameters called the odd log-logistic logarithmic generated family of distributions. We p...

    Authors: Morad Alizadeh, S. M. T. K. MirMostafee, Edwin M. M. Ortega, Thiago G. Ramires and Gauss M. Cordeiro
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:6
  12. We consider univariate distributions with finite moments of all positive orders. The moment problem is to determine whether or not a given distribution is uniquely determined by the sequence of its moments. Th...

    Authors: Gwo Dong Lin
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:5
  13. For extreme events, estimation of high conditional quantiles for heavy tailed distributions is an important problem. Quantile regression is a useful method in this field with many applications. Quantile regres...

    Authors: Mei Ling Huang and Christine Nguyen
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:4
  14. Mixture distributions provide flexibility in modeling data collected from populations having unexplained heterogeneity. While interpretations of regression parameters from traditional finite mixture models are...

    Authors: Habtamu K. Benecha, Brian Neelon, Kimon Divaris and John S. Preisser
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:3
  15. The Simpson’s Paradox is the phenomenon that appears in some datasets, where subgroups with a common trend (say, all negative trend) show the reverse trend when they are aggregated (say, positive trend). Even if ...

    Authors: Alessandro Selvitella
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:2
  16. In low dimensions, the relatively easily implementable acceptance-rejection method for generating polyhedral convex contoured uniform distributions is compared to more sophisticated particular methods from the...

    Authors: Wolf-Dieter Richter and Kay Schicker
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2017 4:1
  17. Proportional hazard (PH) models can be formulated with or without assuming a probability distribution for survival times. The former assumption leads to parametric models, whereas the latter leads to the semi-...

    Authors: Shahedul A. Khan and Saima K. Khosa
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:16
  18. We study general mathematical properties of a new class of continuous distributions with three extra shape parameters called the exponentiated Marshal-Olkin family of distributions. Further, we present some sp...

    Authors: Cícero R. B. Dias, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Morad Alizadeh, Pedro Rafael Diniz Marinho and Hemílio Fernandes Campos Coêlho
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:15
  19. Generalizing distributions is an old practice and has ever been considered as precious as many other practical problems in statistics. It simply started with defining different mathematical functional forms, a...

    Authors: Muhammad H Tahir and Gauss M. Cordeiro
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:13
  20. A family of generalized Cauchy distributions, T-Cauchy{Y} family, is proposed using the T-R{Y} framework. The family of distributions is generated using the quantile functions of uniform, exponential, log-logisti...

    Authors: Ayman Alzaatreh, Carl Lee, Felix Famoye and Indranil Ghosh
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:12
  21. The family of positive tempered α-stable (pTAS) or sometimes also tempered one-sided α-stable distributions dates back to Tweedie (1984) and Hougaard (1986) who discussed it in the context of frailty distribution...

    Authors: Matthias Fischer and Kevin Jakob
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:11
  22. In this note we develop a new Kaplan-Meier product-limit type estimator for the bivariate survival function given right censored data in one or both dimensions. Our derivation is based on extending the constra...

    Authors: Alan D. Hutson
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:9
  23. The two-parameter Weibull has been the most popular distribution for modeling lifetime data. We propose a four-parameter gamma extended Weibull model, which generalizes the Weibull and extended Weibull distrib...

    Authors: Gauss M. Cordeiro, Maria do Carmo S. Lima, Antonio E. Gomes, Cibele Q. da-Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:7
  24. This article outlines flexible strategies to model survival curves for censored data and find parametric confidence intervals using generalised lambda distributions. Owing to the rich shapes of generalised lam...

    Authors: Steve Su
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:6
  25. We introduce and study the extended-G geometric family of distributions, which contains as special models some important distributions such as the XTG (Xie et al. 2002) geometric, Weibull geometric, Chen (Chen 20...

    Authors: Gauss M. Cordeiro, Giovana O. Silva and Edwin M. M. Ortega
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:3
  26. The Rasch model allows for a conditional likelihood ratio goodness of fit test. The speed of approximation of the test statistic to the limiting distribution as a function of sample size and test length has no...

    Authors: Rainer W. Alexandrowicz and Clemens Draxler
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2016 3:2
  27. A probability distribution can be characterized through various methods. In this paper, we have established some new characterizations of folded Student’s t distribution by truncated first moment, order statistic...

    Authors: M. Ahsanullah, M. Shakil and B. M. Golam Kibria
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:15
  28. We propose a generalized Weibull family of distributions with two extra positive parameters to extend the normal, gamma, Gumbel and inverse Gausssian distributions, among several other well-known distributions...

    Authors: Gauss M. Cordeiro, Edwin M. M. Ortega and Thiago G. Ramires
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:13
  29. The Birnbaum-Saunders distribution was derived in 1969 as a lifetime model for a specimen subjected to cyclic patterns of stresses and strains, and the ultimate failure of the specimen is assumed to be due to ...

    Authors: William Jason Owen and Hon Keung Tony Ng
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:11
  30. We study a class of probability distributions on the positive real line, which arise by folding the classical Laplace distribution around the origin. This is a two-parameter, flexible family with a sharp peak ...

    Authors: Yucui Liu and Tomasz J. Kozubowski
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:10
  31. The importance of identifying outliers in a data set is well known. Although various outlier detection methods have been proposed in order to enable reliable inferences regarding a data set, a simple but less ...

    Authors: Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Jorge I. Vélez and Xavier Romão
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:8

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:12

  32. Various methods have been derived that are designed to test the hypothesis that two dependent variables have a common variance. Extant results indicate that all of these methods perform poorly in simulations. ...

    Authors: Rand Wilcox
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:7
  33. Although the univariate Charlier series distribution (Biom. J. 30(8):1003–1009, 1988) and bivariate Charlier series distribution (Biom. J. 37(1):105–117, 1995; J. Appl. Stat. 30(1):63–77, 2003) can be easily g...

    Authors: Xiqian Ding, Da Ju and Guo-Liang Tian
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:5
  34. We study general mathematical properties of a new generator of continuous distributions with three extra shape parameters called the beta Marshall-Olkin family. We present some special models and investigate the ...

    Authors: Morad Alizadeh, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Edleide de Brito and Clarice Garcia B. Demétrio
    Citation: Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications 2015 2:4