A mixture model incorporating long-term survivors has been adopted in the field of biostatistics where some individuals may never experience the failure event under study. The surviving fractions may be considered as cured. In most applications, the survival times are assumed to be independent....

Linear combination of two statistics is considered when some prior knowledge about their expectation and complete knowledge about their joint dispersion is available. The considered setup is more general than those already known in the literature, in the sense that the expectation of one of the...

Linear combination of two statistics is considered when some prior knowledge about their expectation and complete knowledge about their joint dispersion is available. The considered setup is more general than those already known in the literature, in the sense that the expectation of one of the...

Linear combination of two statistics is considered when some prior knowledge about their expectation and complete knowledge about their joint dispersion is available. The considered setup is more general than those already known in the literature, in the sense that the expectation of one of the...