Univariate heavy-tailed analysis rests on the analytic notion of regularly varying functions. For multivariate heavy-tailed analysis, reliance on functions is awkward because multivariate distribution ...

Survival analysis involves the consideration of the time between a fixed starting point (e.g. diagnosis of cancer) and a terminating event (e.g. death). The key feature that distinguishes such data ...

Alternative parameterizations and problems of identification and estimation of multivariate random effects models for categorical responses are investigated. The issues are illustrated in the context ...