Using the Euclidean distance statistical test of Benford's law, we analyse the COVID-19 weekly case counts by country. While 62% of the 100 countries and territories considered in the present study conforms to Benford's law at a significant level of α = 0.05 and 17% at a significant level of...

In an experiment-based prospective study aiming to determine the efficiency of a treatment, the time by which it becomes clear whether a therapy is effective or not is critical. This applies specifically to clinical trials and refers to the same extent to both successful and futile therapies....

This paper considers properties of half-normal distribution using informative priors under the Bayesian criterion. It employs the squared root inverted gamma, Chi-square and Rayleigh distributions as the prior distribution to construct the Posterior distributions of the respective distributional...