One of the methods that in recent years has attracted the attention of many researchers for modeling multivariate mixed outcome data is using the copula function. In this paper a regression model for mixed survival and discrete outcome data based on copula function is proposed. Where the continuous variable was time and could has censored observations. For this task it is assumed that marginal distributions are known and a latent variable was used to transform discrete variable to continuous. Then by using a copula function, the joint distribution of two variables was constructed and finally the obtained model was used to model birth interval data in Ahwaz city in south-west of Iran.

Data loss and missing values is a common problem in data analysis. Therefore, it is important that by estimating missing values, the data was completed and placed in the proper path. Two approaches commonly used to deal with missing data are multiple imputation (MI) and inverse-probability weighting (IPW). In this study, a third approach which is a combination of MI and IPW will be introduced. It can be said by results of the simulation study that IPW/MI can have advantages over alternatives. Regarding the missing values in most studies, especially in the medical field, ignoring them leads to wrong analysis. So, using of robust methods to proper analysis of missing values is essential.

The study of regression diagnostic, including identification of the influential observations and outliers, is of particular importance. The sensitivity of least squares estimators to the outliers and influential observations lead to extending the regression diagnostic in order to provide criteria to assess the anomalous observations. Detecting influential observations and outliers in the presence of collinearity is a complicated task, in the sense that collinearity may cover some of the unusual data. One of the considerable methods to identify outliers is the mean shift outliers method. In this article, we extend the mean shift outliers method to the ridge estimates under linear stochastic restrictions, which is used to reduce the effect of collinearity, and to provide the test statistic to identify the outliers in these estimators. Finally, we show the ability of our proposed method using a practical example of real data.

Uncertainty is an inherent characteristic of biological and geospatial data which is almost made by measurement error in the observed values of the quantity of interest. Ignoring measurement error can lead to biased estimates and inflated variances and so an inappropriate inference. In this paper, the Gaussian spatial model is fitted based on covariate measurement error. For this purpose, we adopt the Bayesian approach and utilize the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and data augmentations to carry out calculations. The methodology is illustrated using simulated data.