In many practical situations bivariate probability distributions are used whose marginals are of the same form. Sometimes however, in cases of a not too good fit, one of the marginals appears to describe the corresponding observed data exceptionally well while the other provides a rather poor...

To estimate the total number of distinct species in a given region, Bayesian methods along with quadrat sampling procedures have been used by several authors. A key underlying assumption relies on the independence among the species. In this note, we analyse these estimates allowing a generalized...

Lee and Carter proposed in 1992 a non-linear model mxt = exp (ax + bx kt + εxt) for fitting and forecasting age-specific mortality rates at age x and time t. For the model parameter estimation, they employed the singular value decomposition method to find a least squares solution. However, the...