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Fouling-Release Performance of Silicone Oil-Modified SiloxanePolyurethane Coatings
The effect of incorporation of silicone oils into a siloxanepolyurethane fouling-release coatings system was explored. Incorporation of phenylmethyl silicone oil has been shown to improve the fouling-release performance ...
Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures
Using body mass index (BMI) data from 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we test a spectrum of single parametric skewed distributions as well as Gaussian mixture densities to determine best distributional ...
Modeling loss data using mixtures of distributions
In this paper, we propose an alternative approach for flexible modeling of heavy tailed, skewed insurance loss data exhibiting multimodality, such as the well-known data set on Danish Fire losses. Our approach is based on ...
An evaluation of the reconstructed coefficient of determination and potential adjustments
Previously, a method was proposed for calculating a reconstructed coefficient of determination in the case of right-censored regression using the expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm. This measure is assessed via ...
A new analysis of VIX using mixture of regressions: Examination and short-term forecasting for the S & P 500 market
A novel approach to the analysis of S & P 500 market fluctuations is proposed using a K‐component mixture of regressions model. The Barndorff‐Nielsen and Shephard stochastic model is employed where the estimates of jumps ...
Examining the Impact on Mortality Arising from Climate Change: Important Findings for the Insurance Industry
In this paper, we analyze the impact on overall mortality rates for the general US population arising from climate change and the weather events resulting in property damages for the period 1968–2013. We develop a fixed ...
On Two Mixture-Based Clustering Approaches Used in Modeling an Insurance Portfolio
We review two complementary mixture-based clustering approaches for modeling
unobserved heterogeneity in an insurance portfolio: the generalized linear mixed cluster-weighted
model (CWM) and mixture-based clustering for ...
Modeling Impact of Natural Hazard- Induced Disasters on Income Distribution in the United States
Economic damage due to hurricane activities has
been shown to impact income inequality in the coastal
states of the United States. We consider 17 other natural
hazards, in addition to hurricanes, that affected the ...