In this paper, a new heavy-tailed distribution is used to model data with a strong right tail, as often occurs in practical situations. The distribution proposed is derived from the lognormal distribution, by using the Marshall and Olkin procedure. Some basic properties of this new distribution...

The propose of this paper is to develop a Bayesian procedure that adequately account for studies with zero observations in meta-analysis and then we focus the problem in the context of the Bayesian selection models. Also, attention is focused to the link distribution between effectiveness in...

If, in the mid 1980's, one had asked the average statistician about the difficulties of using Bayesian Statistics, his/her most likely answer would have been"Well, there is this problem of selecting a prior distribution and then, even if one agrees on the prior, the whole Bayesian inference is...