Nowadays, most government agencies and local authorities regularly and routinely collect a large amount of data from censuses and surveys and officially publish them for public purposes. The most frequently used form for the publication is as statistical tables and it is usually not possible to...

For the multisensor linear discrete system with correlated noises and same measurement matrix, the self-tuning weighted measurement fusion Kalman filtering algorithm is presented when the model parameters and noise variances are all unknown. It can handle the self-tuning fused Kalman filtering,...

The accelerated failure time model provides direct physical interpretation for right censored data. However, the homogeneity of variance assumption of the log transformed data does not always hold. In this paper, we propose using a generalized linear model for right censored data in which we...

Small area estimation is conventionally concerned with the estimation of small area averages and totals. More recently emphasis has been also placed on the estimation of poverty indicators and of key quantiles of the small area distribution function using robust models, for example, the...

A novel class of interacting Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, hereby referred to as the Parallel Hierarchical Sampler (PHS), is developed and its mixing properties are assessed. PHS algorithms are modular MCMC samplers designed to produce reliable estimates for multi-modal and...

Generalized estimating equations (GEE) were proposed for the analysis of correlated data. They are popular because regression parameters can be consistently estimated even if only the mean structure is correctly specified. GEE have been extended in several ways, including regression diagnostics...

The use of the Marshall–Olkin transformation as a skewing mechanism is investigated. The distributions obtained when this transformation is applied to several classes of symmetric and unimodal distributions are analysed. It is shown that most of the resulting distributions are not flexible...

Spatial clustering methodologies that are capable of detecting and delineating irregular clusters can provide information about the geographical spread of various diseases under surveillance. This paper proposes and compares three spatial scan statistics designed to detect clusters with...

While latent variable models have been successfully applied in many fields and underpin various modeling techniques, their ability to incorporate categorical responses is hindered due to the lack of accurate and efficient estimation methods. Approximation procedures, such as penalized...

Racial differences in prostate cancer incidence and mortality have been reported. Several authors hypothesize that African Americans have a more rapid growth rate of prostate cancer compared to Caucasians, that manifests in higher recurrence and lower survival rates in the former group. In this...