The dual generalized order statistics is a unified model which contains the well known decreasingly ordered random data such as (reversed ordered) order statistics and lower record values. In the present paper, some characterization results on the power function distribution based on the properties of dual generalized order statistics are provided. The results are proved without any rest...

A generalized simplified model for describing the dynamic behavior of distributed parameter systems is proposed. The various specific characteristics of gain and phase angle of distributed parameter systems are investigated from frequency response formulation and complex plane representation of the proposed simplified model. The complex plane investigation renders some important inequality cons...

A super–rotating atmosphere with equatorial winds of ∼ 35m s is simulated using a simplified Venus General Circulation Model (GCM). The equatorial super-rotation in the model atmosphere is maintained by barotropic instabilities in the the mid–latitude jets which transport angular momentum towards the equator. The mid–latitude jets are maintained by the mean meridional circulation and the moment...

Logistic regression1 has been widely used in direct marketing applications to develop response and conversion models. Although attractively simple, logistic regression has been criticized for failing to capture the nonlinearity, and therefore possibly not leading to satisfactory results. Introduced by Hastie and Tibshirani, Generalized Additive Model2 (GAM) provides the ability to detect the no...

The generalized wordlength pattern (GWLP) introduced by Xu and Wu (2001) for an arbitrary fractional factorial design allows one to extend the use of the minimum aberration criterion to such designs. Ai and Zhang (2004) defined the J-characteristics of a design and showed that they uniquely determine the design. While both the GWLP and the J-characteristics require indexing the levels of each f...