{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 12, No. 1","authors":"Wendy Smith","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p66","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 12, No. 1","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48743742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reproducibility of Health Claims in Meta-Analysis Studies of COVID Quarantine (Stay-at-Home) Orders","authors":"S. Young, W. Kindzierski","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p54","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic (COVID) has been an extraordinary test of modern government scientific procedures that inform and shape policy. Many governments implemented COVID quarantine (stay-at-home) orders on the notion that this nonpharmaceutical intervention would delay and flatten the epidemic peak and largely benefit public health outcomes. The overall research capacity response to COVID since late 2019 has been massive. Given a lack of research transparency, only a small fraction of published research has been judged by others to be reproducible before COVID. Independent evaluation of published meta-analysis on a common research question can be used to assess the reproducibility of a claim coming from that field of research. We used a p-value plotting statistical method to independently evaluate reproducibility of specific research claims made in four meta-analysis studies related to benefits/harms of COVID quarantine orders. Research claims that these meta-analyses covered included: mortality, mental health symptoms, incidence of domestic violence, and suicidal ideation (thoughts of killing yourself). Three of the four meta-analysis studies that we evaluated (mortality, mental health symptoms, incidence of domestic violence) raise further questions about benefits/harms of this form of intervention. The fourth meta-analysis study (suicidal ideation) is judged to be unreliable. Given lack of research transparency and irreproducibility of published research, independent evaluation of meta-analysis studies using p-value plotting is offered as a way to strengthen or refute (falsify) claims made in COVID research.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45273651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regression: Identifying Good and Bad Leverage Points","authors":"R. Wilcox, Lai Xu","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p1","url":null,"abstract":"When dealing with regression, a well known concern is that a few bad leverage points can result in a poor fit to the bulk of the data. This is the case even when using various robust estimators, which is known as contamination bias. Currently, a relatively e ective method for detecting bad leverage points is based in part on the least median of squares regression estimator. This note suggests a modification of this method that is better able to detect bad leverage points. The modification also provides a substantially better technique for dealing with contamination bias.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49528962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Mixture of Topp–Leone–G Class and Exponentiated–G Class of Distribution","authors":"M. Seham, I. B. Omnia","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v12n1p9","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces a new finite mixture class of generated families between Topp–Leone–G class and exponentiated–G class, called mixture of Topp–Leone exponentiated–G (MTLE–G) class. This class be more suitable for many real life situations and improve fitted results. One sub–model of this class is studied in details, called mixture of Topp–Leone exponentiated–Weibull distribution. Some statistical properties are established. The potentiality of the new class is shown via two applications to real data sets.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42166764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 6","authors":"Wendy Smith","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p74","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 6","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46859678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negative Binomial and Geometric; Bivariate and Difference Distributions","authors":"Y. Tashkandy","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p65","url":null,"abstract":"A similarity and a difference between bivariate negative binomial distribution and bivariate geometric distribution is presented. The distribution of negative binomial difference and geometric difference and the corresponding characteristic function are presented.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45263089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simple Sampling for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hidalgo","authors":"L. V. Torres, J. Escamilla","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p41","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the history of our country, different policies have left an incentive for favorable changes, however, none by itself has managed to combat the problems of chronic malnutrition, to which the current pandemic is added. The state of Hidalgo is in a nutritional transition, with persistent child undernutrition and the predominance of chronic diseases associated with malnutrition (undernutrition, overweight and obesity). Part of this research aims to contribute (in a second phase) to the adequacy of current public policy in the fight against malnutrition and, of course, to the current needs experienced by the SARS-CoV-2 infection contingency. This work develops the application of simple sampling and the stages involved in this statistical tool, whose objective is to establish which part of the reality under study should be studied in order to make inferences about a given population. From the period contemplated between April 28, 2020 and March 8, 2022, the 84 municipalities of the state of Hidalgo reported a total of 86,124 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, from which a sample size of 1,054 subjects has been calculated (representativeness of 91.35% of the target population). The correct application of mathematics in the context of health should allow us to enjoy good health, especially if these results are focused on the promotion and prevention of diseases and their complications; mathematics has surpassed the frontiers of knowledge in various areas and its implementation in this case with respect to public policy and nutrition.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42334357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dimuthu Fernando, Mohammed Alqawba, Manar D. Samad, N. Diawara
{"title":"Review of Copula for Bivariate Distributions of Zero-Inflated Count Time Series Data","authors":"Dimuthu Fernando, Mohammed Alqawba, Manar D. Samad, N. Diawara","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p28","url":null,"abstract":"The class of bivariate integer-valued time series models, described via copula theory, is gaining popularity in the literature because of applications in health sciences, engineering, financial management and more. Each time series follows a Markov chain with the serial dependence captured using copula-based distribution functions from the Poisson and the zero-inflated Poisson margins. The copula theory is again used to capture the dependence between the two series. \u0000 \u0000However, the efficiency and adaptability of the copula are being challenged because of the discrete nature of data and also in the case of zero-inflation of count time series. Likelihood-based inference is used to estimate the model parameters for simulated and real data with the bivariate integral of copula functions. While such copula functions offer great flexibility in capturing dependence, there remain challenges related to identifying the best copula type for a given application. This paper presents a survey of the literature on bivariate copula for discrete data with an emphasis on the zero-inflated nature of the modelling. We demonstrate additional experiments on to confirm that the copula has potential as greater research area.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70766701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining Correlated P-values From Primary Data Analyses","authors":"J. Choi, B. Nandram, Boseung Choi","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n6p12","url":null,"abstract":"Research results on the same subject, extracted from scientific papers or clinical trials, are combined to determine a consensus. We are primarily concerned with combining p-values from experiments that may be correlated. We have two methods, a non-Bayesian method and a Bayesian method. We use a model to combine these results and assume the combined results follow a certain distribution, for example, chi-square or normal. The distribution requires independent and identically distributed (iid) random variables. When the data are correlated or non-iid, we cannot assume such distribution. In order to do so, the combined results from the model need to be adjusted, and the adjustment is done “indirectly” through two test statistics. Specifically, one test statistic (TS** ) is obtained for the non-iid data and the other is the test statistic (TS) is obtained for iid data. We use the ratio between the two test statistics to adjust the model test statistic (TS**) for its non-iid violation. The adjusted TS** is named as “effective test statistics” (ETS), which is then used for statistical inferences with the assumed distribution. As it is difficult to estimate the correlation, to provide a more coherent method for combining p-values, we also introduce a novel Bayesian method for both iid data and non-iid data. The examples are used to illustrate the non-Bayesian method and additional examples are given to illustrate the Bayesian method.","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45846342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 5","authors":"Wendy Smith","doi":"10.5539/ijsp.v11n5p53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ijsp.v11n5p53","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Statistics and Probability, Vol. 11, No. 5","PeriodicalId":89781,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and probability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42251849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}