Often neither the exact density nor the exact cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) of a statistic of interest is available in the statistics and econometrics literature (e.g., the maximum ...

In developing quality-control procedures, a step-loss function has been used implicitly or explicitly to describe consumer perceptions about product quality. A quadratic loss function has been ...

Abstract: This article presents a fuzzy parametric steepest descent approach to address the nonlinear fuzzy optimization problem to achieve improved and refined optimal solutions. Specifically, we ...