In 2010 Zenga introduced a new three-parameter model for distributions by size that can be used to represent income, wealth, financial and actuarial variables. This paper proposes a summary of its main properties, followed by a focus on the interpretation of the parameters in terms of...

In this article we show that several leading natural scientists, statisticians and social scientists born between 1730 and 1930 are closely related by marriage, thereby forming what Annan (Studies in social history: a tribute to C. M. Trevelyan, Longmans, Green, London, pp 241–287, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1955</CitationRef>) has...</citationref>

Independent random samples are taken from two normal populations with means <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\mu _1$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> and <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\mu _2$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> and a common unknown variance <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\sigma ^2.$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> It is known that <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\mu _1\le \mu _2.$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> In this paper, estimation of the common standard deviation <InlineEquation ID="IEq5"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\sigma $$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> is considered with respect to...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

Recently, Mukherjee and Bandyopadhyay (J Stat Plan Inference, <CitationRef CitationID="CR28">2011</CitationRef>, doi:<ExternalRef> <RefSource>10.1016/j.jspi.2011.02.017</RefSource> <RefTarget Address="10.1016/j.jspi.2011.02.017" TargetType="DOI"/> </ExternalRef>) introduced some partially sequential tests for detecting liner trend among the incoming series of observations when a training sample is available a-priori. Their work is very useful in...</refsource></externalref></citationref>

In this article we estimate health transition probabilities using longitudinal data collected in France for the survey on handicaps, disabilities and dependencies from 1998 to 2001. Life expectancies with and without disabilities are estimated using a Markov-based multi-state life table approach...

In this work we construct a mobility index able to grasp the prevailing direction in the evolution of a given set of statistical units. We consider the case of dynamics ruled by a transition matrix, whose states are based on an ordered economic variable (firm size or income, among others) such...

When a large amount of spatial data is available computational and modeling challenges arise and they are often labeled as “big n problem”. In this work we present a brief review of the literature. Then we focus on two approaches, respectively based on stochastic partial differential...