We provide a contingent valuation of a major cycling event, namely the Tour of Flanders. Starting from survey data, we estimate several models with different assumptions about (1) the latent willingness to pay (WTP) distribution and (2) the change in WTP when responding to the follow-up question...

Statistical modeling of traffic crashes has been of interest to researchers for decades. Over the most recent decade many crash models have accounted for extra-variation in crash counts?variation over and above that accounted for by the Poisson density. The extra-variation ? or dispersion ? is...

The most direct method of design flood estimation is at-site flood frequency analysis, which relies on a relatively long period of recorded streamflow data at a given site. Selection of an appropriate probability distribution and associated parameter estimation procedure is of prime importance...

This article devotes to studying the variance change-points problem in student t linear regression models. By exploiting the equivalence of the student t distribution and an appropriate scale mixture of normal distributions, a Bayesian approach combined with Gibbs sampling is developed to detect...