In this paper, we formulate a flexible density function from the selection mechanism viewpoint (see, for example, Bayarri and DeGroot (1992) and Arellano-Valle et al. (2006)) which possesses nice biological and physical interpretations. The new density function contains as special cases many...

"Based on analysis of reading performance data from 475 third-graders in Peru, this study makes recommendations on improving reading tests, choice of reading standards, and how to present the results at the school and individual levels. The paper reviews the literature on using reading skills...

In this paper, we propose a new cure rate survival model, which extends the model of Rodrigues et al. (2011) by incorporating a structure of dependence between the initiated cells. To create the structure of the correlation between the initiated cells, we use an extension of the generalized...

Shmueli et al. (2005) introduced the COM–Poisson–binomial distribution, but they did not study the mathematical properties of this family of distributions. In this paper, we discuss some properties and an asymptotic approximation of it by the COM–Poisson distribution. Moreover, three...

In this paper we extend the long-term survival model proposed by Chen etal. [Chen, M.-H., Ibrahim, J.G., Sinha, D., 1999. A new Bayesian model for survival data with a surviving fraction. Journal of the American Statistical Association 94, 909-919] via the generating function of a real sequence...

In this paper we derive some alternative estimators of the superparameter and predictors of the population total for a multinormal superpopulation model. The estimators and predictors obtained are better than the maximum likelihood predictor near the "natural origin" though possibly worse...

This article presents the coordinate-free approach to extend a result of Bellhouse (1987) for the estimation of a finite population total under model-based inference to include models with correlated error structure. The result is applied to derive the optimal linear model unbiased estimator of...