A parametric regression model for right-censored data with a log-linear median regression function and a transformation in both response and regression parts, named parametric Transform-Both-Sides (TBS) model, is presented. The TBS model has a parameter that handles data asymmetry while allowing...

The last two decades have evidenced a phenomenal growth of cross-cultural research on issues related to basic as well as applied psychological problems. While somepeople still doubt the very existence of cross-cultural psychology as a separate area of inquiry, the methodology of research in this...

We revisit the Bayesian nonparametric estimator of the component reliability of a series system under a competing risk scenario. Unlike the estimator of Salinas-Torres et al. (2002), our estimator of the component survival function is the corresponding Bayes estimator under quadratic loss.