Journal of Data Science

Abstract: We introduce a new class of continuous distributions called the Ku maraswamy transmuted-G family which extends the transmuted class defined by Shaw and Buckley (2007). Some special models of the new family are provided. Some of its mathematical properties including explicit expressions for the ordinary and incomplete moments, generating function, Rényi and Shannon entropies, order statistics and probability weighted moments are derived. The maximum likelihood is used for estimating the model parameters. The flexibility of the generated family is illustrated by means of two applications to real data sets.

Subsampling the data is used in this paper as a learning method about the influence of the data points for drawing inference on the parameters of a fitted logistic regression model. The alternative, alternative regularized, alternative regularized lasso, and alternative regularized ridge estimators are proposed for the parameter estimation of logistic regression models and are then compared with the maximum likelihood estimators. The proposed alternative regularized estimators are obtained by using a tuning parameter but the proposed alternative estimators are not regularized. The proposed alternative regularized lasso estimators are the averaged standard lasso estimators and the alternative regularized ridge estimators are also the averaged standard ridge estimators over subsets of groups where the number of subsets could be smaller than the number of parameters. The values of the tuning parameters are obtained to make the alternative regularized estimators very close to the maximum likelihood estimators and the process is explained with two real data as well as a simulated study. The alternative and alternative regularized estimators always have the closed form expressions in terms of observations that the maximum likelihood estimators do not have. When the maximum likelihood estimators do not have the closed form expressions, the alternative regularized estimators thus obtained provide the approximate closed form expressions for them.

Abstract: We introduce a new class of the slash distribution using folded normal distribution. The proposed model defined on non-negative measure ments extends the slashed half normal distribution and has higher kurtosis than the ordinary half normal distribution. We study the characterization and properties involving moments and some measures based on moments of this distribution. Finally, we illustrate the proposed model with a simulation study and a real application.

Abstract: Chen, Bunce and Jiang [In: Proceedings of the International Con ference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, pp. 1-4] claim to have proposed a new extreme value distribution. But the formulas given for the distribution do not form a valid probability distribution. Here, we correct their formulas to form a valid probability distribution. For this valid distribution, we provide a comprehensive treatment of mathematical properties, estimate parameters by the method of maximum likelihood and provide the observed information matrix. The flexibility of the distribution is illustrated using a real data set.

Abstract: We study a new five-parameter model called the extended Dagum distribution. The proposed model contains as special cases the log-logistic and Burr III distributions, among others. We derive the moments, generating and quantile functions, mean deviations and Bonferroni, Lorenz and Zenga curves. We obtain the density function of the order statistics. The parameters are estimated by the method of maximum likelihood. The observed information matrix is determined. An application to real data illustrates the importance of the new model.