scholarly journals Aggregation errors in project scheduling

2021 ◽  
Vol 2099 (1) ◽  
pp. 012053
Author(s):  
O A Lyakhov

Abstract It is shown that aggregation leads to errors in network models projects problems with restricted resources. In consequence of aggregation an optimal solution of network problem has systematic mistakes in resources evaluation and project schedules look like better than indeed. As illustration the results of computer experiments on real-life data are presented.

The use of calibration estimation techniques in survey sampling have been found to improve the precision of estimators. This paper adopts the calibration approach with the assumption that the population median of the auxiliary variable is known to obtain a more efficient ratio-type estimator in estimating population median in stratified sampling. Conditions necessary for efficiency comparison have been obtained which show that the proposed estimator will always perform better than the existing asymptotically unbiased separate estimators in stratified random sampling. Numerical evaluations have been carried out through simulation and real-life data to compliment the theoretical claims. Results from the simulation study carried out under three distributional assumptions, namely the chi square, lognormal and Cauchy distributions with different sample settings showed that the new estimator provided better estimate of the median with greater gain in efficiency. In addition, result from the real-life data further supports the superiority of the proposed estimator over the existing ones considered in this study.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelumi E. Oguntunde ◽  
Mundher A. Khaleel ◽  
Mohammed T. Ahmed ◽  
Adebowale O. Adejumo ◽  
Oluwole A. Odetunmibi

Developing new compound distributions which are more flexible than the existing distributions have become the new trend in distribution theory. In this present study, the Lomax distribution was extended using the Gompertz family of distribution, its resulting densities and statistical properties were carefully derived, and the method of maximum likelihood estimation was proposed in estimating the model parameters. A simulation study to assess the performance of the parameters of Gompertz Lomax distribution was provided and an application to real life data was provided to assess the potentials of the newly derived distribution. Excerpt from the analysis indicates that the Gompertz Lomax distribution performed better than the Beta Lomax distribution, Weibull Lomax distribution, and Kumaraswamy Lomax distribution.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofi Mudasir ◽  
S. P. Ahmad

Weighted distributions are used in many fields, such as medicine, ecology, and reliability. A weighted version of the generalized inverse Weibull distribution, known as weighted generalized inverse Weibull distribution (WGIWD), is proposed. Basic properties including mode, moments, moment generating function, skewness, kurtosis, and Shannon’s entropy are studied. The usefulness of the new model was demonstrated by applying it to a real-life data set. The WGIWD fits better than its submodels, such as length biased generalized inverse Weibull (LGIW), generalized inverse Weibull (GIW), inverse Weibull (IW) and inverse exponential (IE) distributions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sana Amjad ◽  
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Muhammad Ismail ◽  

This paper provides an efficient transformed ratio-type estimator to estimate the study variable's population variance by utilizing information of a single auxiliary variable under simple random sampling without replacement. The bias and mean squared error of the proposed estimator are derived up-to 1st order approximation. In addition to this, the efficiency comparison of the proposed estimator has been done with traditional ratio-type variance estimator and some other widely used modified ratio-type variance estimators by taking real-life data. A simulation study has also been carried out to see the performance of the proposed estimator. It is worth noticing that our proposed estimator performs better than the competing estimators in real-life data applications as the mean squared error and root mean squared error of our proposed estimator are smaller than the competing estimators. Hence, our proposed estimator is better than existing variance estimators.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Peper ◽  
Simone N. Loeffler

Current ambulatory technologies are highly relevant for neuropsychological assessment and treatment as they provide a gateway to real life data. Ambulatory assessment of cognitive complaints, skills and emotional states in natural contexts provides information that has a greater ecological validity than traditional assessment approaches. This issue presents an overview of current technological and methodological innovations, opportunities, problems and limitations of these methods designed for the context-sensitive measurement of cognitive, emotional and behavioral function. The usefulness of selected ambulatory approaches is demonstrated and their relevance for an ecologically valid neuropsychology is highlighted.


Author(s):  
Eleni Pantazi ◽  
Alexios Travlos ◽  
Evaggelia Vogiatzi ◽  
Ifigenia Kostoglou-Athanassiou

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