A novel heterogeneous manganese/graphitic carbon nitride (Mn3O4-CN) catalyst for activating peroxymonosulfate (PMS) was successfully assembled by alkali precipitation. The g-C3N4 improved the surface morphology, microporous structure, surface area and particle size distribution of the composite,...

To deal with the longitudinal data with both leptokurtic and platykurtic errors, we extend growth curve models using the generalized error distribution (GED) model. The Metropolis--Hastings algorithm is used to estimate the GED model parameters in the Bayesian framework. The application of the...

Challenges in the analyses of growth mixture models include missing data, outliers, estimation, and model selection. Four non-ignorable missingness models to recover the information due to missing data, and three robust models to reduce the effect of non-normality are proposed. A full Bayesian...