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Open Journal of Statistics (OJS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in statistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of statistics. All…
William H. Laverty, Ivan W. Kelly
In this paper, we will illustrate the use and power of Hidden Markov models in analyzing multivariate data over time. The data used in this study was obtained from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD. Stat database url: https://st…
Paul M. Sommers
The author examines the career passing statistics of Tom Brady (2000 to present), quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). In the categories of completions, attempts, completion percentage, passing yards, yards per attem…
Benard Tonui, Samuel Mwalili, Anthony Wanjoya
Disease mapping is the study of the distribution of disease relative risks or rates in space and time, and normally uses generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) which includes fixed effects and spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal random effects. Model fitt…
Sammer M. Marzouk
A major research topic within molecular evolution studies is to understand more about the causes of the molecular evolutionary patterns that are recorded within and between taxa. The amount of germ cell divisions in females and males causes the majority of mu…
Kago Edwin Ditlhong, Oscar Owino Ngesa, Abdalla Yusuf Kombo
In longitudinal studies, measurements are taken repeatedly over time on the same experimental unit. These measurements are thus correlated. Missing data are very common in longitudinal studies. A lot of research has been going on ways to appropriately analyze…
Paul M. Sommers
The author examines six age-group specific suicide rates in 2016 between states (in the continental United States) with and without professional sports teams in baseball [MLB], football [NFL], hockey [NHL], and basketball [NBA]. States with at least one team…
Joy Marie D’Andrea, Rebecca Dyanne Wooten, Wendy Amanda Pogoda
The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness to the general public that certain conditions that occur at a buoy in the Atlantic Basin, such as wind located at the buoy, pressure located at a buoy, water temperature located at a buoy, atmospheric pressure l…
Andrew Luong
A class of pseudo distances is used to derive test statistics using transformed data or spacings for testing goodness-of-fit for parametric models. These statistics can be considered as density based statistics and expressible as simple functions of spacings.…
Caixia Li, Peixing Li
For case-parents data, the information from offspring can be used to reduce the uncertainty of parents’ haplotype. In this article we develop likelihood ratio test to compare haplotype frequencies in transmitted and non-transmitted group. The maximum likeliho…
Diego Jarquin
In leading petroleum-producing countries like Kuwait, Brazil, Iran , Iraq and Mexico oil spills frequently occur on land, causing serious damage to crop fields. Soil remediation requires constant monitoring of the polluted area. One common monitoring method i…
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Open Journal of Statistics (OJS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in statistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of statistics. All… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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