Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the people and organizations who have helped me in all stages of they research that has culminated in this book. Firstly I would like to express my appreciation to Mohsen Ghodousi Zadeh and Hamid Koohbor for helping me in collecting data for the first time in 2005. This led me to a program of research in nonlinear modeling.
I would like to recognize the Department of Statistics at Stockholm University, Sweden, for financial support while writing most of this book during my stay as a post‐doctoral researcher in 2012–2014.
A special note of appreciation is also due to the Islamic Azad University of Abadeh and Lamerd for financial support in connection with collecting some materials for this book.
I would like note my appreciation for the Institute for Mathematical Research of University Putra Malaysia for financial support during my PhD in 2007–2010 and afterwards.
I owe my gratitude to the John Wiley editing team, specially Shyamala and others for their great editing process during the preparation of the book.
Last but by no means least, I would like to thank my wife, Benchamat Hanchan, for her great patience with the financial and physical adversity that we experienced during this research.
November 2017
Hossein Riazoshams
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