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Statement of Originality and Previously Published Work

Much of the work presented in this thesis has been previously published as listed below. Although some of these papers have co-authors, the work appearing in this thesis is entirely my own, with the exception of parts of chapter 3, which presents work jointly carried out by myself and Adrian Thompson. The respective contributions to this work will be explicitly stated at the beginning of the ch...

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On Clarification to the Previously Published Research Articles

In the recent literature, attempts have been made to propose new statistical distributions for modeling real phenomena of nature by adding one or more additional shape parameter (s) to the distribution of baseline random variable. The major contribution of these distributions are to obtain monotonic and non-monotonic shaped failure rates. This short article, offers a clarification to the resear...