In this paper, first spatial point processes and their characteristics are briefly introduced. Then after defining the spatial Cox processes in general terms, a special subclass that is shot noise Cox processes, are investigated. Finally a Thomas process is fitted to the locations of Zagros earthquakes.

There are several methods for inference about gene networks, but there are few cases in which the historical information have been considered. In this research we deal with Bayesian inference on gene network. We apply a Bayesian framework to use the available information. Assuming a proper prior distribution and taking the dependency of parameters into account, we seek a model to obtain promising results. We also deal with the hyper parameter estimation. Two methods are considered. The results will be compared by the use of a simulation based on Gibbs sampler. The strengths and weaknesses of each method are briefly mentioned.

Among all statistical distributions, standard normal distribution has been the most important and practical distribution in which calculation of area under probability density function and cumulative distribution function are required. Unfortunately, the cumulative distribution function of this is, in general, expressed as a definite integral with no closed form or analytical solution. Consequently, it has to be approximated. In this paper, attempts have been made for Winitzki's approximation to be proved by a new approach. Then, the approximation is improved with some modifications and shown that the maximum error resulted from this is less than 0.0000584. Finally, an inverse function for computation of normal distribution quantiles has been derived.

‎This paper examines the problem of stochastic‎ ‎comparisons of series and parallel systems with independent and heterogeneous components generalized linear failure rate‎. ‎First‎, ‎we consider two series system with possibly different parameters and obtain the usual stochastic order between the series systems‎. ‎Next‎, ‎we drive the usual stochastic order between parallel systems‎. ‎We also discuss the usual stochastic order between parallel systems by using the unordered majorization and the weighted majorization order between the parameters on the Ɗп.

‎The methodology of sufficient dimension reduction has offered an effective means to facilitate regression analysis of high-dimensional data‎. ‎When the response is censored‎, ‎most existing estimators cannot be applied‎, ‎or require some restrictive conditions‎. ‎In this article modification of sliced inverse‎, ‎regression-II have proposed for dimension reduction for non-linear censored regression data‎. ‎The proposed method requires no model specification‎, ‎it retains full regression information‎, ‎and it provides a usually small set of composite variables upon which subsequent model formulation and prediction can be based‎. ‎Finally‎, ‎the performance of the method is compared based on the simulation studies and some real data set include primary biliary cirrhosis data‎. ‎We also compare with the sliced inverse regression-I estimator‎.

This article aims to joint modeling of longitudinal CD4 cells count and time to death in HIV patients based on the AFT model. The modeling of the longitudinal count response, a GLME model under the family of PSD, was used. In contrast, for the TTE data, the parametric AFT model under the Weibull distribution was investigated. These two responses are linked through random effects correlated with the normal distribution. The longitudinal and survival data are then assumed independent, given the latent linking process and any available covariates. Considering excess zeros for two responses and right censoring, presented a joint model that has not yet been investigated by other researchers. The parameters were also estimated using MCMC methods.

One of the most frequently encountered longitudinal studies issues is data with losing the appointments or getting censoring. In such cases, all of the subjects do not have the same set of observation times. The missingness in the analysis of longitudinal discrete and continuous mixed data is also common, and missing may occur in one or both responses. Failure to pay attention to the cause of the missing (the mechanism of the missingness) leads to unbiased estimates and inferences. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate the mechanism of nonignorable missing in set-inflated continuous and zero-inflation power series, as well as the continuous and k-inflated ordinal mixed responses. A full likelihood-based approach is used to obtain the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters of the models. In order to assess the performance of the models, some simulation studies are performed. Two applications of our models are illustrated for the American's Changing Lives  survey, and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test  data set.

The exact distribution of many applicable statistics could not be accessible in various statistical inference problems. To deal with such an issue in the large sample problem, an approach is to obtain the asymptotic distribution. In this article, we have expressed the asymptotic distribution of multivariate statistics class approximated by averages based on the Taylor expansion. Then, the asymptotic distribution of an empirical Mahalanobis depth-based statistic is obtained, and the statistic is applied to test the scale difference between two multivariate distributions. Simulation studies are carried out to explore the behavior of the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic. A real data example illustrating the use of the test is also presented.

‎This paper presents a nonparametric multi-class depth-based classification approach for multivariate data. This approach is easy to implement rather than most existing nonparametric methods that have computational complexity. If the assumption of the elliptical symmetry holds, this method is equivalent to the Bayes optimal rule. Some simulated data sets as well as real example have been used to evaluate the performance of these depth-based classifiers.