The strength of ECC lies in the hardness of elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) and the hight level security with significantly smaller keys. Thus, using smaller key sizes is a gain in term of speed, power, bandwidth, and storage. Point multiplication is the most common operation in ECC and the most used method to compute it is Montgomery Algorithm. This paper describes an area-ef...

Within the latent growth curve model, time-invariant covariates are generally modeled on the subject level, thereby estimating the effect of the covariate on the latent growth parameters. Incorporating the time-invariant covariate in this manner may have some advantages regarding the interpretation of the effect but may also be incorrect in certain instances. In this article we discuss a more g...

Interval-censored, or more generally, coarsened event-time data arise when study participants are observed at irregular time periods and experience the event of interest in between study observations. Such data are often analysed assuming non-informative censoring, which can produce biased results if the assumption is wrong. This paper extends the standard approach for estimating survivor funct...