Search Results - "Communications in statistics. Theory and methods"

Unbiased variable importance for random forests by Loecher, Markus

“…The default variable-importance measure in random forests, Gini importance, has been shown to suffer from the bias of the underlying Gini-gain splitting…”
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Complete convergence and complete moment convergence for weighted sums of extended negatively dependent random variables by Meng, Bing, Wang, Dingcheng, Wu, Qunying

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Reliability model for dual constant-stress accelerated life test with Weibull distribution under Type-I censoring scheme by Feng, Xuefeng, Tang, Jiayin, Tan, Qitao, Yin, Zekai

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Component level versus system level at active redundancies for coherent systems with dependent heterogeneous components by Yan, Rongfang, Wang, Junrui

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On shifted integer-valued autoregressive model for count time series showing equidispersion, underdispersion or overdispersion by da Cunha, Enai Taveira, Bourguignon, Marcelo, Vasconcellos, Klaus L. P.

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Reliability analysis for stress-strength model from a general family of truncated distributions under censored data by Wang, Liang, Zuo, Xuanjia, Tripathi, Yogesh Mani, Wang, Junyuan

“…Under progressive Type-II censoring, inference of stress-strength reliability (SSR) is studied for a general family of lower truncated distributions. When the…”
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A note on Whittaker-Henderson graduation: Bisymmetry of the smoother matrix by Yamada, Hiroshi

“…Whittaker-Henderson (WH) graduation is a popular smoothing method that has been used for mortality table construction in the actuarial sciences and for the…”
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Complete convergence and complete moment convergence for arrays of rowwise negatively superadditive dependent random variables by Meng, Bing, Wang, Dingcheng, Wu, Qunying

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Multi-sample test for high-dimensional covariance matrices by Zhang, Chao, Bai, Zhidong, Hu, Jiang, Wang, Chen

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Some Results for Beta Fréchet Distribution by Barreto-Souza, Wagner, Cordeiro, Gauss M., Simas, Alexandre B.

“…Nadarajah and Gupta ( 2004 ) introduced the beta Fréchet (BF) distribution, which is a generalization of the exponentiated Fréchet (EF) and Fréchet…”
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Optimal impulse control for dividend and capital injection with proportional reinsurance and exponential premium principle by Yao, Dingjun, Wang, Rongming, Xu, Lin

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Kernel Density Estimator From Ranked Set Samples by Lim, Johan, Chen, Min, Park, Sangun, Wang, Xinlei, Stokes, Lynne

“…We study kernel density estimator from the ranked set samples (RSS). In the kernel density estimator, the selection of the bandwidth gives strong influence on…”
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The logistic-X family of distributions and its applications by Tahir, M. H., Cordeiro, Gauss M., Alzaatreh, Ayman, Mansoor, M., Zubair, M.

“…The logistic distribution has a prominent role in the theory and practice of statistics. We introduce a new family of continuous distributions generated from a…”
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A class of general pretest estimators for the univariate normal mean by Shih, Jia-Han, Konno, Yoshihiko, Chang, Yuan-Tsung, Emura, Takeshi

“…In this paper, we propose a class of general pretest estimators for the univariate normal mean. The main mathematical idea of the proposed class is the…”
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A new method for generating distributions with an application to exponential distribution by Mahdavi, Abbas, Kundu, Debasis

“…A new method has been proposed to introduce an extra parameter to a family of distributions for more flexibility. A special case has been considered in detail,…”
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High-dimensional asymptotic expansion of the null distribution for Schott's test statistic for complete independence of normal random variables by Yamada, Takayuki

“…This article is concerned with the testing complete independence for the elements of observed vector. Schott proposed the testing statistic T and gave limiting…”
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Adaptive optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings algorithms using the Robbins-Monro process by Garthwaite, P. H., Fan, Y., Sisson, S. A.

“…We present an adaptive method for the automatic scaling of random-walk Metropolis-Hastings algorithms, which quickly and robustly identifies the scaling factor…”
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A robust Spearman correlation coefficient permutation test by Yu, Han, Hutson, Alan D.

“…In this work, we show that Spearman's correlation coefficient test about H 0 : ρ s = 0 found in most statistical software is theoretically incorrect and…”
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Coordinate optimization for generalized fused Lasso by Ohishi, M., Fukui, K., Okamura, K., Itoh, Y., Yanagihara, H.

“…Fused Lasso is one of extensions of Lasso to shrink differences of parameters. We focus on a general form of it called generalized fused Lasso (GFL). The…”
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A mixture autoregressive model based on Student's t-distribution by Meitz, Mika, Preve, Daniel, Saikkonen, Pentti

“…A new mixture autoregressive model based on Student's t-distribution is proposed. A key feature of our model is that the conditional t-distributions of the…”
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