In various application areas, prior information is available about the direction of the effects of multiple predictors on the conditional response distribution. For example, in epidemiology studies of potentially adverse exposures and continuous health responses, one can typically assume a priori that increasing the level of an exposure does not lead to an improvement in the health response. Su...

Reconstructing a physical map of a chromosome from a genomic library presents a central computational problem in genetics. Physical map reconstruction in the presence of errors is a problem of high computational complexity that provides the motivation for parallel computing. Parallelization strategies for a maximum-likelihood estimation-based approach to physical map reconstruction are presente...

In this paper, we treat the problem of stochastic comparison of standby [active] redundancy at component level versus system level. In the case of standby redundancy, we present some interesting comparison results of both series systems and parallel systems in the sense of various stochastic orderings for both the matching spares case and non-matching spares case, respectively. In the case of a...

‎In this work‎, ‎we derive insensitive bounds for various performance measures of a single-server‎ ‎retrial queue with generally distributed inter-retrial times and Bernoulli schedule‎, ‎under the special‎ ‎assumption that only the customer at the head of the orbit queue (i.e.‎, ‎a‎ ‎FCFS discipline governing the flow from the orbit to the server) is allowed‎ ‎to occupy the server‎. ‎The method...

In this paper, a novel strategy is employed in which degradation model affects the implied distribution of lifetimes differently compared to traditional method. It recognized that an existing link between measurements and failure time constructs underlying time-to-failure model. We assume paper conditional survival function device under piecewise linear for given level degradation. The multipli...