First, we introduce a new algorithm to search the tree space with user-defined intensity using subtree pruning and regrafting topological moves. The parsimony criterion is used here to filter out the ...

Pacific's medium-term growth prospects using two approaches. First, growth accounting analysis and machine-learning estimation reveal how demographics, capital deepening, productivity, and human ...

Then, based on these degradation values, we use a modified EM-algorithm to predict the failure times of the censored units. The resulting estimator of the mean failure time is shown to be a consistent ...