The second parity rule states that, if there is no bias in mutation or selection, then within each strand of DNA complementary bases are present at approximately equal frequencies. In bacteria, however, there is commonly an excess of G (over C) and, to a lesser extent, T (over A) in the replicatory leading strand. The low G+C Firmicutes, such as Staphylococcus aureus, are unusual in displaying ...

Linear mixed models were developed to handle clustered data and have been a topic of increasing interest in statistics for the past fifty years. Generally, the normality (or symmetry) of the random effects is a common assumption in linear mixed models but it may, sometimes, be unrealistic, obscuring important features of among-subjects variation. In this article, we utilize skew-normal/independ...

In this paper, the S&P 500 stock index is studied for its time varying volatility and stylized facts. The ARMA mean equation with asymmetric power ARCH errors is used to model the series correlations and the conditional heteroscadesticity in the asset returns. The conditional distributions of the standardized residuals are assumed to be the normal distribution, the t distribution or the skew-t ...

this paper examines whether combining generalized hyperbolic skew-t distribution, recently introduced in the field of insurance, and extreme value theory (evt) could result in a modeling of loss function that could model central value as well as extreme value in appropriate manner. the data used in this study are the amount of property damage and bodily injury covered under automobile liability...

The classical bivariate F distribution arises from ratios of chi-squared random variables with common denominators. A consequent disadvantage is that its univariate F marginal distributions have one degree of freedom parameter in common. In this paper, we add a further independent chisquared random variable to the denominator of one of the ratios and explore the extended bivariate F distributio...

We verify the skew weighing matrix conjecture for orders 2t.7, t ~ 3 a positive integer, by showing that orthogonal (1, k) exist for all t k = 0, 1, .... , 2.7 1 in order 2t.7 We discuss the construction of orthogonal designs using circulant matrices. In particular we construct designs in orders 20 and 28. The weighing matrix conjecture is verified for order 60. Disciplines Physical Sciences an...

Shannon and Rényi entropies are two important measures of uncertainty for data analysis. These have been studied multivariate Student-t skew-normal distributions. In this paper, we extend the entropy to skew-t finite mixture (FMST) This class flexible distributions allows handling asymmetry tail weight behavior simultaneously. We find upper lower bounds these families. Numerical simulations ill...