background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...

In this paper, the well-known proportional hazards model which includes several well-known lifetime distributions such as exponential,Pareto, Lomax, Burr type XII, and so on is considered. With both Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches , we consider the estimation of parameters of interest based on progressively Type-II right censored samples. The Bayes estimates are obtained based on symmetric...

We submitted four systems to the Japanese dictionary-based lexical-sample task of SENSEVAL-2. They were i) the support vector machine method ii) the simple Bayes method, iii) a method combining the two, and iv) a method combining two kinds of each. The combined methods obtained the best precision among the submitted systems. After the contest, we tuned the parameter used in the simple Bayes met...

Let X|μ ∼ Np(μ,vxI ) and Y |μ ∼ Np(μ,vyI ) be independent pdimensional multivariate normal vectors with common unknown mean μ. Based on observing X = x, we consider the problem of estimating the true predictive density p(y|μ) of Y under expected Kullback–Leibler loss. Our focus here is the characterization of admissible procedures for this problem. We show that the class of all generalized Baye...

In this study, the application of Bayes networks and fault tree analysis in reliability estimation have been investigated. Fault tree analysis is one of the most widely used methods for estimating reliability. In recent years, a method called "Bayes Network" has been used, which is a dynamic method, and information about the probable failure of the system components will be updated according to...