Volume 9, Issue 3 (2013) | Journal of Mathematics and Statistics

REPRESENTING MARKOV CHAINS WITH TRANSITION DIAGRAMS

Farida Kachapova — 2013-05-17

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 17 May 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.149.154

Stochastic processes have many useful applications and are taught in several university programmes. Students often encounter difficulties in learning stochastic processes and Markov chains, in particu...

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE UNIT SYSTEM WITH SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE AND VARIATION IN DEMAND

Gulshan Taneja — 2013-05-30

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 30 May 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.155.160

The present paper analyses the reliability and cost-benefit for a single unit system with scheduled maintenance and variation in demand. As Change in demand affects the production of system also, henc...

SMOOTHING SPLINE IN SEMIPARAMETRIC ADDITIVE REGRESSION MODEL WITH BAYESIAN APPROACH

Rita Diana — 2013-06-12

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 12 June 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.161.168

Semiparametric additive regression model is a combination of parametric and nonparametric regression models. The parametric components are not linear but following a polynomial pattern, while the nonp...

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR SPATIAL DURBIN MODEL

Rokhana Dwi Bekti — 2013-06-15

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 15 June 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.169.174

Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) is one method of spatial autoregressive. This model was developed because the dependencies in the spatial relationships not only occur in the dependent variable, but also on...

NEW APPROACH TO SOLVE HYBRID FUZZY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

Saveetha Natesan — 2013-07-01

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 1 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.175.179

This study presents solution for the first order hybrid fuzzy differential equation by Runge-Kutta method of order two with new parameters and Harmonic mean of ki’s which are used in the main formul...

FUZZY TOPOLOGICAL DIGITAL SPACE OF FLAT ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY DURING EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

Muhammad Abdy — 2013-07-05

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 5 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.180.185

Epileptic seizures are manifestations of epilepsy caused a temporary electrical disturbance in a group of brain cells. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a recording of electrical activity of the brain a...

ESTIMATION OF CLAIM COST DATA USING ZERO ADJUSTED GAMMA AND INVERSE GAUSSIAN REGRESSION MODELS

Yulia Resti — 2013-07-11

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 11 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.186.192

In actuarial and insurance literatures, several researchers suggested generalized linear regression models (GLM) for modeling claim costs as a function of risk factors. The modeling of claim costs inv...

A COMPARISON BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND ROBUST METHOD IN A FACTORIAL DESIGN IN THE PRESENCE OF OUTLIER

Anwar Fitrianto — 2013-07-11

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 11 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.193.197

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) techniques which is based on classical Least Squares (LS) method requires several assumptions, such as normality, constant variances and independency. Those assumptions ca...

ECONOMIC AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF STOCHASTIC MODEL ON A BASE TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM CONSIDERING VARIOUS OPERATIONAL MODES AND CATASTROPHIC FAILURES

Rajeev Kumar — 2013-07-22

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 22 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.198.207

In this study a stochastic model for a Base Transceiver System (BTS) is proposed that consists of various hardware and software components. A Base Transceiver System (BTS) may undergoes four modes dur...

A NOVEL MULTICLASS SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM USING MEAN REVERSION AND COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE

Bhusana Premanode — 2013-07-31

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 31 July 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.208.218

Inaccuracy of a kernel function used in Support Vector Machine (SVM) can be found when simulated with nonlinear and stationary datasets. To minimise the error, we propose a new multiclass SVM model us...

A STUDY OF FIRST YEAR TERTIARY STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE- CONCEPTUAL AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE, LOGICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITY

Gurudeo Anand Tularam — 2013-08-01

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 1 August 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.219.237

This study focuses on students in first year environmental science degree programs where traditionally mathematical emphasis has been much less than the strict science or math majors. The importance n...

ON SELF-INVERSE BINARY MATRICES OVER THE BINARY GALOIS FIELD

Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi — 2013-09-04

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.238.248

An important class of square binary matrices over the simplest finite or Galois Field GF(2) is the class of involutory or Self-Inverse (SI) matrices. These matrices are of significant utility in promi...

ADAPTIVE CLUSTER SAMPLING USING AUXILIARY VARIABLE

Nipaporn Chutiman — 2013-09-04

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.249.255

In this study we study the estimators of the population mean in adaptive cluster sampling by using the information of the auxiliary variable. The estimators in this study are the classical ratio estim...

SOLITARY WAVE MODULATION IN AN ARTERY WITH STENOSIS FILLED WITH A VISCOUS FLUID

Yaan Yee Choy — 2013-09-04

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 4 September 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.256.261

In this study, the derivation of mathematical model for the wave modulation through an incompressible viscous fluid contained in a prestressed thin stenosed elastic tube is presented. The artery is as...

ON REDUCED SCALAR EQUATIONS FOR SYNCHRONOUS BOOLEAN NETWORKS

Ali Muhammad Ali Rushdi — 2013-09-10

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Published online: 10 September 2013; doi:10.3844/jmssp.2013.262.276

A total description of a synchronous Boolean network is typically achieved by a matrix recurrence relation. A simpler alternative is to use a scalar equation which is a possibly nonlinear equation tha...