Instead in terms of the probability density function, one can formulate the prior in terms of its integral, the distribution function. The density is then recovered from the distribution function by ...

This example considers a data set given in Lawless (1982). The data are the number of days it took rats painted with a carcinogen to develop carcinoma. The last two observations are censored. Maximum ...

Some general results concerning the asymptotic behavior of the value of the empirical distribution function at a random point (e.g. the sample mean) are given. These results are then used to obtain: ...

With the current interest in copula methods, and fat-tailed or other non-normal distributions, it is appropriate to investigate technologies for managing marginal distributions of interest. We explore ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We introduce a statistical distribution with hazard function μ(t) proportional to (ψ - t) β-1 for 0 ⩽ t < ψ and shape parameter β satisfying 0 ...