Most of the research on reliability theory has focused on the study of independence between the components of a system. However, in many real systems, dependence between components is one of the realistic and intractable ...

In this thesis, we are concerned with the uniform in bandwidth consistency of kernel-type estimators of the regression function derived by modern empirical process theory, under weaker conditions on the kernel than previously ...

This thesis deals with the problem of loss of important information and features in spatial data modeling by building a causal spatial model that can capture the various main characteristics of these data. After a through ...