Binomial-discrete Erlang-truncated exponential mixture and its application in cancer disease.

Among diseases, cancer exhibits the fastest global spread, presenting a substantial challenge for patients, their families, and the communities they belong to. This paper is devoted to modeling such a disease as a special case. A newly proposed distribution called the binomial-discrete Erlang-truncated exponential (BDETE) is introduced. The BDETE is a mixture of binomial distribution with the number of trials (parameter [Formula: see text]) taken after a discrete Erlang-truncated exponential distribution. A comprehensive mathematical treatment of the proposed distribution and expressions of its density, cumulative distribution function, survival function, failure rate function, Quantile function, moment generating function, Shannon entropy, order statistics, and stress-strength reliability, are provided. The distribution's parameters are estimated using the maximum likelihood method. Two real-world lifetime count data sets from the cancer disease, both of which are right-skewed and over-dispersed, are fitted using the proposed BDETE distribution to evaluate its efficacy and viability. We expect the findings to become standard works in probability theory and its related fields.

Leverage and influential observations on the Liu type estimator in the linear regression model with the severe collinearity.

In the process of building a linear regression model, the essential part is to identify influential observations. Various influence measures involving Cook's distance and DFFITS are designed to detect the linear regression's influential observations using the Least Squares (LS). The existence of influential observations in the data is complicated by the presence of severe collinearity and affects the efficiency of the detection measures. This paper proposes new diagnostic methods based on the Liu type estimator (LTE) defined by Liu [1]. The Cook's distance and DFFITS for the LTE are introduced. Moreover, approximate formulas for Cook's distance and DFFITS are also proposed for LTE. Two real data sets with a high level of multicollinearity among the explanatory variables as well as the simulation study are used to illustrate and evaluate performance of the methodologies presented in this paper.