The behaviour of a near-critical sample of SF6, bounded by container walls with finite thermal properties, was studied in space during the 1994 IML-2 mission. Experiments were performed in the range 2500 to 1 mK above the critical point in which simultaneous density and temperature measurements...

While making a statistical model it is important both, to find a theoretical distribution function that would characterize empirical frequency distribution and to choose a suitable method of parameter estimate of such model. Recently used type of a theoretical model of income distribution (the...

Design of Experiments and Reliability are two well known statistical techniques very useful in efforts towards the improvement of industrial products. Usually these two tools are applied separately, leading practitioners to believe they are fit to solve problems of a different matter. This...

The log normal reserving model is considered. The contribution of the paper is to derive explicit expressions for the maximum likelihood estimators. These are expressed in terms of development factors which are geometric averages. The distribution of the estimators is derived. It is shown that...

This study presents a method to discover an outbreak of an infectious disease in a region for which data are missing, but which is at work as a disease spreader. Node discovery for the spread of an infectious disease is defined as discriminating between the nodes which are neighboring to a...

Background: The renewal function is widely useful in the areas of reliability, maintenance and spare components inventory planning. Its calculation relies on the type of the probability density function of component failure times which can be, regarding the region of the component lifetime,...

This paper describes the application of contingent claims analysis (CCA) and systemic CCA to the top four commercial banks in Sweden. The balance sheet stress tests for four major banks were complemented with tests based on the CCA framework, a risk-adjusted balance sheet relating bank asset...

This paper studies the implications of the imperfect credibility of an exchange rate target zone on the term structure of forward premia. The relationship between spot and forward exchange rates of different maturities reflects the possibility of repeated realignments of the exchange rate band....