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Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

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A Simple Method For Finding Emperical Liklihood Type Intervals For The Roc Curve, Ayman Baklizi Nov 2007

A Simple Method For Finding Emperical Liklihood Type Intervals For The Roc Curve, Ayman Baklizi

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Interval estimation of the ROC curve is considered using the empirical likelihood techniques. Suggested is a procedure that is very simple computationally and avoids the constrained optimization problems usually faced with empirical likelihood methods. Various modifications are suggested and the performance of the intervals is evaluated in terms of their coverage probability. The results show that some of the suggested intervals compete well with other intervals known in the literature.


Beta-Weibull Distribution: Some Properties And Applications To Censored Data, Carl Lee, Felix Famoye, Olugbenga Olumolade May 2007

Beta-Weibull Distribution: Some Properties And Applications To Censored Data, Carl Lee, Felix Famoye, Olugbenga Olumolade

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Some properties of a four-parameter beta-Weibull distribution are discussed. The beta-Weibull distribution is shown to have bathtub, unimodal, increasing, and decreasing hazard functions. The distribution is applied to censored data sets on bus-motor failures and a censored data set on head-and-neck-cancer clinical trial. A simulation is conducted to compare the beta-Weibull distribution with the exponentiated Weibull distribution.