the problem of estimating the parameter ?, when it is restricted to an interval of the form , in a class of discrete distributions, including binomial negative binomial discrete weibull and etc., is considered. we give necessary and sufficient conditions for which the bayes estimator of with respect to a two points boundary supported prior is minimax under squared log error loss function. for s...

capacity of a road facility as an important characteristic in transportation and traffic studies is defined as the maximum rate of flow that could be held by that facility, which has been supposed to have a constant and certain value. this assumption, although necessary for most traffic studies, has also caused some problems, like that of demand exceeding capacity in many road facilities. resea...

We propose a wavelet based stochastic regression function estimator for the estimation of the regression function for a sequence of pairwise negative quadrant dependent random variables with a common one-dimensional probability density function. Some asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are investigated. It is found that the estimators have similar properties to their counterparts st...

In this paper, we propose a new cure rate survival model, which extends the model of Rodrigues et al. (2011) by incorporating a dependence structure between the initiated cells. To create the correlation structure between the initiated cells, we use an extension of the generalized power series distribution by including an additional parameter ρ (inflated-parameter generalized power series (IGPS...

We develop a segmentation technique for dynamic PET incorporating the physiological parameters for different regions via kinetic modeling. We demonstrate the usefulness of our technique on fifteen [11C]Raclopride simulated PET images. We show qualitatively and quantitatively that the physiologically based algorithm outperforms two classical segmentation techniques. Further, we derive a formula ...

We outline a method for extracting inertio-gravity wave parameters using the autospectra and cross spectra of the horizontal perturbation winds. In essence, we define a statistical hodograph for each spectral bin, thus combining the advantages of the rotary spectrum and hodograph methods. Furthermore, we include the effects of the background vertical shear in the parameter estimation equations,...