An analysis of the number of medical malpractice claims and their amounts

M Bonetti, P Cirillo, P Musile Tanzi, E Trinchero - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Starting from an extensive database, pooling 9 years of data from the top three insurance
brokers in Italy, and containing 38125 reported claims due to alleged cases of medical …

Simulation-based inference in a zero-inflated Bernoulli regression model

A Diop, A Diop, JF Dupuy - Communications in Statistics …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The logistic regression model has become a standard tool to investigate the relationship
between a binary outcome and a set of potential predictors. When analyzing binary data, it …

Using the censored gamma distribution for modeling fractional response variables with an application to loss given default

F Sigrist, WA Stahel - ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA, 2011 - cambridge.org
Regression models for limited continuous dependent variables having a non-negligible
probability of attaining exactly their limits are presented. The models differ in the number of …

Safety prediction with datasets characterised with excess zero responses and long tails

D Lord, SR Geedipally - Safe Mobility: Challenges, Methodology and …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose–This chapter provides an overview of issues related to analysing crash data
characterised by excess zero responses and/or long tails and how to overcome these …

Univariate extreme value mixture modeling

C Scarrott - Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
A plethora of univariate extreme value mixture models have been developed, which
combine a classic tail model with a component to describe the bulk of the distribution. The …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptotic comparison of method of moments estimators and maximum likelihood estimators of parameters in zero-inflated poisson model

G Nanjundan, TR Naika - 2012 - scirp.org
This paper discusses the estimation of parameters in the zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) model
by the method of moments. The method of moments estimators (MMEs) are analytically …

[HTML][HTML] Semiparametric zero-inflated modeling in multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (mesa)

H Liu, S Ma, R Kronmal, KS Chan - The annals of applied statistics, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We analyze the Agatston score of coronary artery calcium (CAC) from the Multi-Ethnic Study
of Atherosclerosis (MESA) using semi-parametric zero-inflated modeling approach, where …

Inferring visibility: Who's (not) talking to whom?

G Gürsun, N Ruchansky, E Terzi… - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Consider this simple question: how can a network operator identify the set of routes that
pass through its network? Answering this question is surprisingly hard: BGP only informs an …

A survey of a hurdle model for heavy-tailed data based on the generalized lambda distribution

D Marcondes, C Peixoto, AC Maia - Communications in Statistics …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We present a literature review on the current state of Generalized Lambda Distribution (G λ
D) research and propose a highly flexible G λ D hurdle model for heavy tailed data with …

A double exponentially weighted moving average chart based on likelihood ratio for monitoring an inflated Pareto process

B Bizuneh, FK Wang - Quality and Reliability Engineering …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present a new chart called a likelihood ratio based double exponentially
weighted moving average (LR_DEWMA) chart to monitor the shape parameter of the inflated …