Remark on the Paper by Rao And Kakehashi (2005)
The paper by Rao and Kakehashi [1]uses the Weibull distribution (given by equation (3) in the paper)and a truncated version of it (given by equations (4) and (5))to model HIV/AIDS data in India.After a careful reading, I have found that all of the results presentedin the appendix are incorrect (star...
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| description | The paper by Rao and Kakehashi [1]uses the Weibull distribution (given by equation (3) in the paper)and a truncated version of it (given by equations (4) and (5))to model HIV/AIDS data in India.After a careful reading, I have found that all of the results presentedin the appendix are incorrect (starting with equation (11) itself).Instead of pointing out all of the specific errors, I have chosen to give the correct formulas (and a brief outline of their derivation)for the $r$th moment of the truncated Weibull distribution. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c5d5be3cf3404176834b2c4d08214fef2025-01-24T01:51:19ZengAIMS PressMathematical Biosciences and Engineering1551-00182006-01-013238538710.3934/mbe.2006.3.385Remark on the Paper by Rao And Kakehashi (2005)Saralees Nadarajah0Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583The paper by Rao and Kakehashi [1]uses the Weibull distribution (given by equation (3) in the paper)and a truncated version of it (given by equations (4) and (5))to model HIV/AIDS data in India.After a careful reading, I have found that all of the results presentedin the appendix are incorrect (starting with equation (11) itself).Instead of pointing out all of the specific errors, I have chosen to give the correct formulas (and a brief outline of their derivation)for the $r$th moment of the truncated Weibull distribution.https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2006.3.385momentstruncated weibulldistribution.incubation time distribution |
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