The usual regression model fits data under the assumption that the explanatory variable is measured without error. However, in many situations the explanatory variable is observed with measurement errors. In these cases, ...

The Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution is based on an physical damage that produces the cumulative fatigue materials, This fatigue was identified as an important cause of failure in engineering structures. Recently, this model ...

In this work, we introduce a Bayesian approach for quality control of industrial products, assuming units in test under stress levels higher than the usual level. We assume di¤erent distributions for the lifetimes of the ...

The continuous development of new financial instruments brings more and more investment options for market participants. These investment options also bring a bigger necessity to evaluate the risk embedded in these new ...

In this paper we study the reliability of systems with connected components in series and parallel. For systems in series, the device fails when the first component fails. Although in the parallel systems this happens when ...

In this thesis, a class of correlated binomial regression models is proposed. The model is based on the generalized binomial distribution proposed by Luceño (1995) and Luceño & Ceballos (1995). The regression structure is ...

Important advances have been achieved in the granting of credit, however, the problem of identifying good customers for the granting of credit does not provide a definitive solution. Several techniques were presented and ...

In this work, we analyse the use of the statistics in the improvement of some attitudes of a company regarding marketing strategy. We deal with methods which permit the identification of the best costumers and the preferences ...

A summary of the state of the art relative to regression models for binary response variable and panel data is presented in this work. Those models may include efects from several sources: specific variables of interest, ...