In order to overcome the perverse incentives of excessive maintenance reductions and insufficient network investments arising with incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies, regulators throughout Europe have started regulating service quality. In this paper, we explore the...

Using the likelihood depth, new consistent and robust tests for the parameters of the Weibull distribution are developed. Uncensored as well as type-I right-censored data are considered. Tests are given for the shape parameter and also the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution, where in...

Denecke and Müller (CSDA 55:2724–2738, <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">2011</CitationRef>) presented an estimator for the correlation coefficient based on likelihood depth for Gaussian copula and Denecke and Müller (J Stat Planning Inference 142: 2501–2517, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2012</CitationRef>) proved a theorem about the consistency of general estimators based on...</citationref></citationref>

This article investigates the application of depth estimators to crack growth models in construction engineering. Many crack growth models are based on the Paris–Erdogan equation which describes crack growth by a deterministic differential equation. By introducing a stochastic error term,...