Given a sequence (Xn) of random variables, Xn is said to be near-record if Xn∈(Mn−1−a,Mn−1], where Mn=max{X1, …, Xn} and a>0 parameter. We investigate the point process η on [0,∞) values from an integer-valued, independent identically distributed sequence, showing that it Bernoulli cluster process. derive probability generating functional formulas for expectation, variance covariance countin...

A retrospective evaluation of attitudinal, behavioural and knowledge change among diverse stakeholder groups was conducted in Limpopo Province of South Africa to assess the effectiveness of a series of values clarification (VC) interventions. Telephone and face-to-face interview (193) results revealed that over two-thirds (70.2%) reported behavioural changes and 93.2% reported increased compass...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...

In this paper, we obtain  Bayesian prediction intervals as well as Bayes predictive estimators under square error loss for generalized order statistics when the distribution of the underlying population belongs to a family which includes several important distributions.