The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

A comprehensive perspective on Weibull models The literature on Weibull models is vast,
disjointed, andscattered across many different journals. Weibull Models is acomprehensive …

Censored sampling arises in a life-testing experiment whenever the experimenter does not
observe (either intentionally or unintentionally) the failure times of all units placed on a life …

For many years the authors have been interested in developing methods for generating
multivariate distributions, especially for positive data. Part of the motivation was to find …

Matrix-Exponential Distributions in Applied Probability Page 1 Probability Theory and
Stochastic Modelling 81 Mogens Bladt Bo Friis Nielsen Matrix-Exponential Distributions in …

We present a method for estimating the KL divergence between continuous densities and
we prove it converges almost surely. Divergence estimation is typically solved estimating the …

Abstract Chen and Bhattacharyya (1988, Comm. Statist. Theory Methods, 17, 1857–1870)
derived the exact distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean of an …

The human alpha (8–12 Hz) rhythm is one of the most prominent, robust, and widely studied
attributes of ongoing cortical activity. Contrary to the prevalent notion that it simply “waxes …

Priced very competitively compared with other textbooks at this level! This gracefully
organized textbook reveals the rigorous theory of probability and statistical inference in the …

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