At some point in time during a post-surgery period, an anesthesiologist may intervene using a medication to quicken a patient’s conscious-recovery time. An assessment of such intervention methods has clinical importance. One performs an extension of the exponential model to address this issue....

The purpose of the diagnostic methodology is to discuss, estimate and interpret medical parameters such as sensitivity, specificity and prevalence of a diseased population in the chosen community for the research study. However, this statistical methodology is not fully and correctly...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a popular linear programming technique is useful to rate comparatively operational efficiency of decision making units (DMU) based on their deterministic (not necessarily stochastic) input-output data. Only when the input-output data are stochastic (preferably...

Morris (1982, 1983) shows that there exists only six distributions with variance as a quadratic function of the mean, and calls the group natural exponential-quadratic variance family (NEQVF). This note discovers that in NEQVF there are actually two factions which we call linear and nonlinear...