The construction industry is regarded as a major contributor to environmental emissions, due to extensive usage of resources and the waste products produced. This article presents a building information modeling (BIM)-based model that is capable of measuring six types of emissions for different...

This work presents a method to support product design, since it shows how to use together tolerance assignment and analysis for choosing among different set of tolerances assigned to the same product. It starts from tolerance assignment that produces different sets of tolerances for the product...

Project financing (PF) is a technique that lenders finance based on a project's future cash flow and asset value. PF based on business feasibility has emerged and is being adopted in the global market to promote and facilitate infrastructure projects. In this study, key financial factors...

The most fundamental problem currently associated with structural equation modeling employing the partial least squares method is that it does not properly account for measurement error, which often leads to path coefficient estimates that asymptotically converge to values of lower magnitude...

The recent availability of software tools for nonlinear path analyses, such as WarpPLS, enables e-collaboration researchers to take nonlinearity into consideration when estimating coefficients of association among linked variables. Nonlinear path analyses can be applied to models with or without...

Recent methodological developments building on partial least squares (PLS) techniques and related ideas have significantly contributed to bridging the gap between factor-based and composite-based structural equation modeling (SEM) methods. PLS-SEM is extensively used in the field of...

Abstract In a strength-stress interference model, we are interested in estimating the structural reliability of a system. Here we present Bayesian procedures to estimate the structural reliability and other relevant parameters when covariates are incorporated in the model. Numerical examples...

Abstract Recently, entropy and extropy-based tests for the uniform distribution have attracted the attention of some researchers. This paper proposes nonparametric entropy and extropy estimators based on progressive type-II censoring and investigates their properties and behavior. Performance of...

Summary One problem in statistics is to determine the distributions of estimators and statistics. For distributions of the continuous type the density function of an estimator can at each point be expressed as a multiple integral, but the standard methods for computing integrals are not...