Advances on Models, Characterizations and Applications (Hardcover)

Preface
Contributors
The Shapes of the Probability Density, Hazard, and Reverse Hazard Functions
Masaaki Sibuya

Stochastic Ordering of Risks, Influence of Dependence, and A.S. Constructions
Ludger Ruschendorf

The q-Factorial Moments of Discrete q-Distributions and a Characterization of the Euler Distribution
Ch.A. Charalambides and N. Papadatos

On the Characterization of Distributions Through the Properties of Conditional Expectations of Order Statistics
I. Bairamov and O. Gebizlioglu

Characterization of the Exponential Distribution by Conditional Expectations of Generalized Spacings
Erhard Cramer and Udo Kamps

Some Characterizations of Exponential Distribution Based on Progressively Censored Order Statistics
N. Balakrishnan and S.V. Malov

A Note on Regressing Order Statistics and Record Values
I. Bairamov and N. Balakrishnan

Generalized Pareto Distributions and Their Characterizations
Majid Asadi

On Some Characteristic Properties of the Uniform Distribution
G. Arslan, M. Ahsanullah, and I.G. Bairamov

Characterizations of Multivariate Distributions Involving Conditional Specification and/or Hidden Truncation
Barry C. Arnold

Bivariate Matsumoto-Yor Property and Related Characterizations
Konstancja Bobecka and Jacek Wesolowski

First Principal Component Characterization of a Continuous Random Variable
Carles M. Cuadras

The Lawless-Wang's Operational Ridge Regression Estimator Under the LINEX Loss Function
Esra Akdeniz and Fikri Akdeniz

On the Distributions of the Reference Dose and Its Application in Health Risk Assessment
Mehdi Razzaghi
Subject Index