We present a generalized likelihood (GL) methodology derived from the information generating function. The GL (or GI-based score function in the case of censored or binary data) depends on a user-specified index c, which takes values in a neighborhood of 0. If c = 0, the classical likelihood...

The Family of stable distributions serves as an error model for a wide-and even widening -variety of applications. The importance of these distributions is due to the properties that sums of independent and identically distributed stable random variables are again stable and that these are the...

The disappointing performance of U.S. firms during the 1980s in technology-intensive, global markets (such as consumer electronics, office and factory automation, and semiconductor memories) has been widely attributed to a failure to continuously and incrementally improve products and processes....