Vangeneugden <italic>et al.</italic> [15] derived approximate correlation functions for longitudinal sequences of general data type, Gaussian and non-Gaussian, based on generalized linear mixed-effects models (GLMM). Their focus was on binary sequences, as well as on a combination of binary and Gaussian...

For the first time, we propose the so-called beta generalized half-normal distribution, which contains some important distributions as special cases, such as the half-normal and generalized half-normal (Cooray and Ananda, 2008) distributions. We derive expansions for the cumulative distribution...

Estimation of Taylor's power law for species abundance data may be performed by linear regression of the log empirical variances on the log means, but this method suffers from a problem of bias for sparse data. We show that the bias may be reduced by using a bias-corrected Pearson estimating...

The concept of reliability denotes one of the most important psychometric properties of a measurement scale. Reliability refers to the capacity of the scale to discriminate between subjects in a given population. In classical test theory, it is often estimated by using the intraclass correlation...

A common objective in longitudinal studies is the investigation of the association structure between a longitudinal response process and the time to an event of interest. An attractive paradigm for the joint modelling of longitudinal and survival processes is the shared parameter framework,...