Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 389-401: On Non-Occurrence of the Inspection Paradox Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7020024 Authors: Diana Rauwolf Udo Kamps The well-known inspection paradox or waiting time paradox states that, in a renewal process, the inspection interval is stochastically larger than a common interarrival time having a distribution...

Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 373-388: New Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Kumaraswamy Distribution Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7020023 Authors: David E. Giles The two-parameter distribution known as the Kumaraswamy distribution is a very flexible alternative to the beta distribution with the same (0,1) support. Originally proposed in the field of hydrology,...

Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 361-372: Bayesian Mediation Analysis with an Application to Explore Racial Disparities in the Diagnostic Age of Breast Cancer Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7020022 Authors: Wentao Cao Joseph Hagan Qingzhao Yu A mediation effect refers to the effect transmitted by a mediator intervening in the relationship between an...

Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 350-360: Combined Permutation Tests for Pairwise Comparison of Scale Parameters Using Deviances Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7020021 Authors: Scott J. Richter Melinda H. McCann Nonparametric combinations of permutation tests for pairwise comparison of scale parameters, based on deviances, are examined. Permutation tests...

Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 333-349: A Note on Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Direct, Indirect and Synthetic Estimators Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7010020 Authors: Christophe Quentin Valvason Stefan Sperlich Direct, indirect and synthetic estimators have a long history in official statistics. While model-based or model-assisted approaches...

Stats, Vol. 7, Pages 317-332: The Flexible Gumbel Distribution: A New Model for Inference about the Mode Stats doi: 10.3390/stats7010019 Authors: Qingyang Liu Xianzheng Huang Haiming Zhou A new unimodal distribution family indexed via the mode and three other parameters is derived from a mixture of a Gumbel distribution for the maximum...