Tourism, one of the biggest industries in many countries, has been considered a complexly integrated and self-contained economic activity.As key determinants of thetourism demand are not fully identified to some extent different forecasting models vary in thelevel of accuracy. By comparing the...

Monitoring a failure process and measuring its performance are important issues for complex nonrepairable and repairable systems. For a highly reliable process, traditional methods for reliability monitoring and performance measuring become inapplicable. This paper proposes a new two-phase...

Purpose - Import-export activities normally require the involvement of different sectors needing proper plans to make the trade-flow stably grown. This paper is aimed at establishing an accurate forecasting model for trade volume. Design/methodology/approach- In this study, a new forecasting...

Purpose – Nowadays, diversity management in business organizations becomes so imperative in a time-sensitive business. However, diversity should not be measured as a static number. To better understand the fast-changing terrain, the paper aims to strongly propose using the tracking signal...

The study of human immunodeficiency virus dynamics is one of the most important areas in research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome in recent years. Non-linear mixed effects models have been proposed for modelling viral dynamic processes. A challenging problem in the modelling is to...

Semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects (NLME) models are very flexible in modeling long-term HIV viral dynamics. In practice, statistical analyses are often complicated due to measurement errors and missing data in covariates and non-ignorable missing data in the responses. We consider...