The Lomax affair

Transmuted Lomax Distribution

Abstract A generalization of the Lomax distribution so-called the transmuted Lomax distribution is proposed and studied. Various structural properties including explicit expressions for the moments, quantiles, and mean deviations of the new distribution are derived. The estimation of the model parameters is performed by maximum likelihood method. We hope that the new distribution proposed here ...

Weighted Lomax distribution

The Lomax distribution (Pareto Type-II) is widely applicable in reliability and life testing problems in engineering as well as in survival analysis as an alternative distribution. In this paper, Weighted Lomax distribution is proposed and studied. The density function and its behavior, moments, hazard and survival functions, mean residual life and reversed failure rate, extreme values distribu...

John Walker Barber-Lomax

John Walker Barber-Lomax, always known to family and friends alike as Jack, and to colleagues as B-L, died on 13 April. He was born on 4 December 1914, near Bolton, Lancashire. After Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge, he proceeded to St Thomas' Hospital for a medical training but changed course and went up to the Liverpool veterinary school where he took the Golding prize in veterinary ...

The Alder Hey affair.

The monkey gland affair

His method of working involves very close study of the texts in order to uncover the medical concepts of their authors. For example, when he analyses the vocabulary of disease, showing how diseases are described and named, his conclusions illuminate the question of the extent to which individual characteristics ofthe patient are thought to influence the symptoms and course of the disease. One c...