In various statistical model, such as density estimation and estimation of regression curves or hazard rates, monotonicity constraints can arise naturally. A frequently encountered problem in nonparametric statistics is to estimate a monotone density function f on a compact interval. A known estimator for density function of f under the restriction that f is decreasing, is Grenander estimator, ...

kernel density estimators are the basic tools for density estimation in non-parametric statistics.  the k-nearest neighbor kernel estimators represent a special form of kernel density estimators, in  which  the  bandwidth  is varied depending on the location of the sample points. in this paper‎, we  initially introduce the k-nearest neighbor kernel density estimator in the random left-truncatio...

PP(top x%) is the proportion of papers of a unit (e.g. an institution or a group of researchers), which belongs to the x% most frequently cited papers in the corresponding fields and publication years. It has been proposed that x% of papers can be expected which belongs to the x% most frequently cited papers. In this Letter to the Editor we will present the results of an empirical test whether ...

We present a new algorithm called PBSIM for computing image similarity, based upon a novel method of extracting bloblike features from images. In tests on a classification task using a data set of over 1000 images, PBSIM shows significantly higher accuracy than algorithms based upon color histograms, as well as previously reported results for another approach based upon bloblike features.

This article contains the optimum 3 step stress accelerated life test under cumulative exposure model. The lifetimes of test units are assumed to follow a generalized Pareto distribution. The scale parameter of the used failure time distribution at the constant stress level is assumed to have a log-linear and quadratic relationship with the stress. A comparison between linear plan and quadratic...

in statistical inference, the point estimation problem is very crucial and has a wide range of applications. when, we deal with some concepts such as random variables, the parameters of interest and estimates may be reported/observed as imprecise. therefore, the theory of fuzzy sets plays an important role in formulating such situations. in this paper, we rst recall the crisp uniformly minimum ...

Epstein [9] introduced the Type-I hybrid censoring scheme as a mixture of Type-I and Type-II censoring schemes. Childs et al. [5] introduced the Type-II hybrid censoring scheme as an alternative to Type-I hybrid censoring scheme, and provided the exact distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean of a one parameter exponential distribution based on Type-II hybrid censored sample...

Excessive depth perception in 3D video is one of the major factors that causes discomfort to the viewer and that can decrease the viewer’s quality perception of 3D video. With the idea of real-time quality control of 3D videos, we proposed an edge-based sparse disparity estimation algorithm with a novel similarity metric. The comparative assessment with other four state-of-the-art similarity me...

We have considered different estimation procedures for the unknown parameters of the extended exponential geometric distribution. We introduce different types of estimators such as the maximum likelihood, method of moments, modified moments, L-moments, ordinary and weighted least squares, percentile, maximum product of spacings, and minimum distance estimators. The different estimators are comp...