<Para ID="Par1">Integer-valued time series models have been a recurrent theme considered in many papers in the last three decades, but only a few of them have dealt with models on <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${\mathbb {Z}}$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> (that is, including both negative and positive integers). Our aim in this paper is to introduce a...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></para>

<Para ID="Par1">Motivated by a roundoff problem, we derive new expressions for cumulants of a random variable distributed uniformly on <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$0,1, \ldots , n-1$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mrow> <mn>0</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mn>1</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mo>…</mo> <mo>,</mo> <mi>n</mi> <mo>-</mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. Their computational efficiency over a known expression is discussed. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

<Para ID="Par1">A general paired comparison model for the evaluation of sport competitions is proposed. It efficiently uses the available information by allowing for ordered response categories and team-specific home advantage effects. Penalized estimation techniques are used to identify clusters of teams that...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">The kernel method estimator of the spatial modal regression for functional regressors is proposed. We establish, under some general mixing conditions, the <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$L^p$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <msup> <mi>L</mi> <mi>p</mi> </msup> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-consistency and the asymptotic normality of the estimator. The performance of the proposed estimator is illustrated in a...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></para>

<Para ID="Par1">This paper argues that typical applications of panel unit root tests should take possible nonstationarity in the volatility process of the innovations of the panel time series into account. Nonstationary volatility arises, for instance, when there are structural breaks in the innovation...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">This article suggests a new approach for modelling longitudinal paired comparison data. As individual preferences may change from one time point to another, we propose extending the basic log-linear Bradley–Terry model by incorporating a Markovian structure with temporal within-comparison...</para>

Here we develop an order k version of the zero-inflated logarithmic series distribution of Kumar and Riyaz [Staistica (accepted for publication), <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2013b</CitationRef>] through its probability generating function, and derive an expression for its probability mass function. Certain recurrence relation for its...</citationref>

In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the Gini index when data are assumed to be collected through the randomized response method proposed by Greenberg et al. (J Am Stat Assoc 66:243–250 <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">1971</CitationRef>). In the design-based framework, we treat the Gini index as a population functional and...</citationref>

The paper proposes two approaches to increase the efficiency of the pMST location and scatter estimator and of the RDELA location and scatter estimator. One approach is deduced from classical reweighting, commonly employed by established robust location and scatter estimators, and the other one...