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Cancer progression among patients can be assessed by creating a set of gene markers using statistical data analysis methods. Still, one of the main problems in the statistical study of this type of data is the large number of genes versus a small number of samples. Therefore, it is essential to use dimensionality reduction techniques to eliminate and find the optimal number of genes to predict the desired classes accurately. On the other hand, choosing an appropriate method can help extract valuable information and improve the machine learning model's efficiency. This article uses an ensemble learning approach, a random support vector machine cluster, to find the optimal feature set. In the current paper and in dealing with real data, it is shown that via randomly projecting the original high-dimensional feature space onto multiple lower-dimensional feature subspaces and combining support vector machine classifiers, not only the essential genes are found in causing prostate cancer, but also the classification precision is increased.

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The analysis of spatio-temporal series is crucial but a challenge in different sciences. Accurate analyses of spatio-temporal series depend on how to measure their spatial and temporal relation simultaneously. In this article, one-sided dynamic principal components (ODPC) for spatio-temporal series are introduced and used to model the common structure of their relation. These principal components can be used in the data set, including many spatio-temporal series. In addition to spatial relations, trends, and seasonal trends, the dynamic principal components reflect other common temporal and spatial factors in spatio-temporal series. In order to evaluate the capability of one-sided dynamic principal components, they are used for clustering and forecasting in spatio-temporal series. Based on the precipitation time series in different stations of Golestan province, the efficiency of the principal components in the clustering of hydrometric stations is investigated. Moreover, forecasting for the SPI index, an essential indicator for detecting drought, is conducted based on the one-sided principal components.

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In today’s industrial world, effective maintenance plays a key role in reducing costs and improving productivity. This paper introduces goodness-of-fit tests based on information measures, including entropy, extropy, and varentropy, to evaluate the type of repair in repairable systems. Using system age data after repair, the tests examine the adequacy of the arithmetic reduction of age model of order 1. The power of the proposed tests is compared with classical tests based on martingale residuals and the probability integral transform. Simulation results show that the proposed tests perform better in identifying imperfect repair models. Their application to real data on vehicle failures also indicates that this model provides a good fit.

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Events in one financial institution can affect other institutions. For this reason, systemic risk is of interest to risk analysts, and the most important methods of measuring it are the CoVaR and CoES. If there is a dependence between the returns of two financial institutions, Copula functions can be used to examine the structure of the dependence between them. Since return data are often  are unstable  over time, ARMA-GARCH time series models can be used to model variability. In this paper, CoVaR is evaluated for four copula functions, and then CoES are estimated based on that in ARMA-GARCH models with GED  distributions. Then, these two measures are calculated with the returns of  Tejarat and Mellat banks.