Weibull mixtures have been used extensively in reliability and survival analysis, and they have also been generalized by allowing negative mixing weights, which arise naturally under the formation of some structures of reliability systems. These models provide flexible distributions for modeling...

Higher-order approximations for quantiles can be derived upon inversions of the Edgeworth and saddlepoint approximations to the distribution function of a statistic. The inversion of the Edgeworth expansion leads to the well known Cornish–Fisher expansion. This paper deals with the inversions...

<Para ID="Par1">We provide a comprehensive overview of latent Markov (LM) models for the analysis of longitudinal categorical data. We illustrate the general version of the LM model which includes individual covariates, and several constrained versions. Constraints make the model more parsimonious and allow us...</para>

This paper develops a methodology for robust Bayesian inference through the use of disparities. Metrics such as Hellinger distance and negative exponential disparity have a long history in robust estimation in frequentist inference. We demonstrate that an equivalent robustification may be made...

To support large-scale integration of wind power into electric energy systems, state-of-the-art wind speed forecasting methods should be able to provide accurate and adequate information to enable efficient, reliable, and cost-effective scheduling of wind power. Here, we incorporate space-time...

In this paper, some probability inequalities and moment inequalities for widely orthant-dependent (WOD, in short) random variables are presented, especially the Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund type inequality and Rosenthal type inequality. By using these inequalities, we further study the complete...

Bartolucci et al. (Test, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">2014</CitationRef>) provide a nice showcase of the flexibility of latent Markov models for longitudinal data. Indeed, their list of applications is impressive and includes a wide variety of models, with covariates to model transitions between latent states and direct effects on the...</citationref>

First of all, we would like to congratulate and to thank Lajos Horváth and Gregory Rice for providing an excellent overview of a recent development in the area of change point. This area is developing quite fast with many new procedures, many new theoretical results and many applications. We...

The total time on test transform has been used in reliability to compare two random lifetimes. Despite that it has been used widely in this context, it is not very clear in which sense the random variables are being compared. In this paper we provide a characterization which reveals the true...

A new multiple testing procedure, called the FDR<Subscript> L </Subscript> procedure, was proposed by Zhang et al. (Ann Stat 39:613–642, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12">2011</CitationRef>) for detecting the presence of spatial signals for large-scale 2D and 3D imaging data. In contrast to the conventional multiple testing procedure, the FDR<Subscript> L </Subscript> procedure...</subscript></citationref></subscript>