Splashing of splat particles is one of the most important phenomena in industrial processes such as thermal spray coating. The data relative to the degree of splashing of splats sprayed with a normal angle are commonly characterized by the Weibull distribution function. In this present study, an effort has been made to show that the Burr distribution is better than the Weibull distribution for ...

In follow-up studies, interactions are often assessed by including a cross-product term in a (multiplicative) Cox model. However, epidemiologists/clinicians often misinterpret a significant multiplicative interaction as a genuine mechanistic interaction. Though indices specific to mechanistic interactions have been proposed, including the 'relative excess risk due to interaction' (RERI) and the...

We consider the problem of analyzing interval censored data comparing cumulative incidence functions by demographic variables in the presence of competing risks. In this paper, we explore two methods based on imputation, the EM-type method and Multiple Imputation. Basically, we imputed the exact event time for interval censored data and take advantage of standard estimation methods for right ce...