Essays on Mathematics and Statistics: Volume 5

Edited by Codruta Stoica

ISBN: 978-618-5065-77-5, 268 pages

First published in 2015 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 40€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Foreword		i
Part 1: Mathematics
1.	Singular Sublinear Polyharmonic Problems in an Exterior Domain Imed Bachar	3
2.	Some Insights about PL(7, 2) Codes Catarina Maria Neto da Cruz & Ana Maria Reis d’Azevedo Breda	15
3.	Global Positioning System as it is Related to Trisecting Angles Frantz Olivier	27
4.	Mazur-Orlicz Theorem and Moment Problems on Concrete Spaces Octav Olteanu	41
5.	Markovian-Fuzzy Model for Manpower Planning Adnan-Sh-Jaber	53
6.	Cocycles over Non-Autonomous Dynamical Systems in Banach Spaces Codruta Stoica	65
7.	Constants of Lotka-Volterra Derivations Janusz Zieliński	73
8.	Visibility: Finding the Staircase Kernel in Orthogonal Polygons Tzvetalin S. Vassilev & Stefan Pape	79
Part 2: Statistics
9.	Inference based on Unified Hybrid Censored Data from a Weibull Distribution Arezou Habibi Rad & Fatemeh Yousefzadeh	93
10.	Finding the Ratio of Two Percentiles by Way of Non Parametric Methods Li-Fei Huang	105
11.	Generalized Matrix T Distribution Through Generalized Multivariate Gamma Distribution Anis Iranmanesh, Mohammad Arashi & Sara Shokri	113
12.	Parametric versus Semi-parametric Mixed Models for Panel Count Data Vandna Jowaheer & Brajendra Sutradhar	131
13.	Interactive Linear Models in Survey Sampling Pulakesh Maiti	141
14.	An Investigation of the Performance of Five Different Estimators in the Measurement Error Regression Model Diarmuid O’Driscoll & Donald Ramirez	147
15.	Anomalies of the Magnitude of the Bias of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of the Regression Slope Diarmuid O’Driscoll & Donald Ramirez	157
16.	Discriminant Analysis with High Dimensional von Mises - Fisher Distributions Mario Romanazzi	167
17.	On a Recursive Procedure for Parameter Estimation in Linear Model with Possibly Singular Covariance Hong Son Hoang & Remy Baraille	181
Part 3: Mathematics and Statistics Education
18.	Evaluation of the Use of Multivariate Statistical Techniques in Theses and Dissertations of Some Higher Education Institutions Maria Aparecida Gouvêa & Leandro Campi Prearo	201
19.	Linear Algebra in New Environments (LINE) – An Assessment Laurel Cooley & Draga Vidakovic	215
20.	Integration of Nonverbal Channels in Peer Argumentation: Early Learning of Geometry in a Problem-Solving Context Naomi Prusak, Rina Hershkowitz & Baruch B. Schwarz	225
21.	Statistical Study on the Perception of Professional Accountants Regarding the Existence and the Manifestation of Creative Accounting Codruta Stoica & Lucian Cernusca	237
22.	The Use of Computational Mathematics in Teaching of Ramsey Numbers: A Case Study at Kean University Kung-Kuen Tse	249