Population dependence on car use has adverse health consequences including road traffic injury, physical inactivity, air pollution and social severance. Widespread car dependence also entrenches lifestyles that require unsustainable levels of energy use. Most transport policies explicitly...

We propose an empirical service-operation risk-classification model to provide managerial insights to service providers in terms of risk management. The model is developed through an investigation of the dependencies between the characteristics of service operations in consumer services and the...

We describe an algorithm for estimating the parameters of time-series models expressed in state-space form. The algorithm is based on the EM algorithm, and generalizes an algorithm given by Shumway and Stoffer (1982)

We obtain recursive formulas for the expected values of order statistics from the Cantor distribution defined by Lad and Taylor (Statist. Probab. Lett. 13 (1992) 307-310), and for a skew generalization of it. The formulas are used to calculate the L-moments of the distribution.