In this paper, we introduce a new family of generalized Bernstein operators based on q integers, called -Bernstein operators, denoted by . We investigate a Kovovkin-type approximation theorem, and obtain the rate of convergence of to any continuous functions f. The main results are the identification of several shape-preserving properties of these operators, including their monotonicity- and convexity-preserving properties with respect to . We also obtain the monotonicity with n and q of .
Keywords: Basis function; Bernstein operators; Monotonicity; Shape-preserving; q-integers.