The unit-Weibull distribution as an alternative to the Kumaraswamy distribution for the modeling of quantiles conditional on covariates

J Mazucheli, AFB Menezes, LB Fernandes… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The Beta distribution is the standard model for quantifying the influence of covariates on the
mean of a response variable on the unit interval. However, this well-known distribution is no …

Climate change co** and adaptation strategies: how do cocoa farmers in Ghana diversify farm income?

B Amfo, EB Ali - Forest Policy and Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change poses a serious threat to many farmers' yield and income. Previous studies
often applied a general approach to examine climate change mitigation strategies …

On the arcsecant hyperbolic normal distribution. Properties, quantile regression modeling and applications

MÇ Korkmaz, C Chesneau, ZS Korkmaz - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
This work proposes a new distribution defined on the unit interval. It is obtained by a novel
transformation of a normal random variable involving the hyperbolic secant function and its …

A new quantile regression for modeling bounded data under a unit Birnbaum–Saunders distribution with applications in medicine and politics

J Mazucheli, V Leiva, B Alves, AFB Menezes - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
Quantile regression provides a framework for modeling the relationship between a response
variable and covariates using the quantile function. This work proposes a regression model …

[PDF][PDF] Transmuted unit Rayleigh quantile regression model: Alternative to beta and Kumaraswamy quantile regression models

MÇ Korkmaz, C Chesneau… - Univ. Politeh. Buchar …, 2021 - scientificbulletin.upb.ro
In this paper, a new alternative unit distribution is presented. It consists of applying the
quadratic transmutation scheme with the unit Rayleigh distribution. The quantile regression …

The unit generalized half-normal quantile regression model: formulation, estimation, diagnostics, and numerical applications

J Mazucheli, MÇ Korkmaz, AFB Menezes, V Leiva - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we propose and derive a new regression model for response variables defined
on the open unit interval. By reparameterizing the unit generalized half-normal distribution …

A new alternative quantile regression model for the bounded response with educational measurements applications of OECD countries

MÇ Korkmaz, C Chesneau… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article introduces a new distribution with two tuning parameters specified on the unit
interval. It follows from a 'hyperbolic secant transformation'of a random variable following the …

Joint Bayesian inference of risk variants and tissue-specific epigenomic enrichments across multiple complex human diseases

Y Li, M Kellis - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) provide a powerful approach for uncovering
disease-associated variants in human, but fine-map** the causal variants remains a …

New class of Johnson distributions and its associated regression model for rates and proportions

AJ Lemonte, JL Bazán - Biometrical Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
By starting from the Johnson distribution pioneered by Johnson (), we propose a broad class
of distributions with bounded support on the basis of the symmetric family of distributions …

[HTML][HTML] Small shrubs with large importance? Smaller deer may increase the moose-forestry conflict through feeding competition over Vaccinium shrubs in the field …

R Spitzer, E Coissac, A Felton, C Fohringer… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The moose (Alces alces) is a dominant large mammalian herbivore in the world's boreal
zones. Moose exert significant browsing impacts on forest vegetation and are therefore often …