Hoa Binh is the largest reservoir in Vietnam. It has been operated since 1990 with the main purposes of flood control in the Red River basin and hydropower generation. Because these different purposes always cause conflicts and disputes during the flood season, it is desirable to improve the...

Smoothing methods that use basis functions with penalization can be formulated as fits in a mixed model framework. One of the major benefits is that software for mixed model analysis can be used for smoothing. We illustrate this for several smoothing models such as additive and varying...

A hierarchical Bayesian model for spatial panel data is proposed. The idea behind the proposed method is to analyze spatially dependent panel data by means of a separable covariance matrix. Let us indicate the observations as yit, i = 1,...,N regions and t = 1,...,T time, var(y), the covariance...

Based on reinforced urn process introduced by Muliere et al. [2000. Urn schemes and reinforced random walks. Stochastic Process. Appl. 88(1), 59-78] we propose a Bayesian nonparametric approach to analyse a design determining the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) in Phase I clinical trials for new...