We examine the issue of variable selection in linear regression modelling, where we have a potentially large amount of possible covariates and economic theory offers insufficient guidance on how to select the appropriate subset. In this context, Bayesian Model Averaging presents a formal...

Purpose – This paper focuses on assembly line performance of an automotive body shop that builds body‐in‐white (BIW) assembly utilizing about 700+ process robots. These robots perform various operations such as welding, sealing, part handling, stud welding and inspection. There is no...

In this article, the authors present a unified approach for maximum likelihood analysis of structural equation models that involve subtle model formulations and nonstandard data structures. Based on the idea of data augmentation, they describe a generic Monte Carlo expectation-maximization...

We compare different selection criteria to choose the number of latent states of a multivariate latent Markov model for longitudinal data. This model is based on an underlying Markov chain to represent the evolution of a latent characteristic of a group of individuals over time. Then, the...

The future revision of capital requirements and a market-consistent valuation of non-hedgeable liabilities lead to an increasing attention on forecasting longevity trends. In this field, many methodologies focus on either modeling mortality or pricing mortality-linked securities (as longevity...

A new method for detecting regime switches between different probability distributions in financial time series is shown. In the proposed method, time series observations are divided into several segments, and a Gaussian model or a Cauchy model is fitted to each segment. The goodness of fit of...

Sufficient dimension reduction techniques are to deal with curse of dimensionality when the underlying model is of a very general semiparametric multi-index structure and to estimate the central subspace spanned by the indices. However, the cost is that they can only identify the central...

In this paper, we consider the problem of simultaneous variable selection and estimation for varying-coefficient partially linear models in a “small <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$n$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, large <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$p$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>” setting, when the number of coefficients in the linear part diverges with sample size while the number of varying...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

In this paper we show that the Marshall-Olkin extended Weibull distribution can be obtained as a compound distribution with mixing exponential distribution. In addition, we provide simple sufficient conditions for the shape of the hazard rate function of the distribution. Moreover, we extend the...