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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Categorical Data Analysis"”.
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Models and Graphics in the Analysis of Categorical Variables: The Case of the Youth Tobacco Survey.
… tobacco use among young people. Some primary analysis of those surveys has been done, but few analyses include modeling, and the study of independence has been addressed, mainly, in the bivariate context.</p><p>In this work contemporary methods, which are of relative recent appearance in …
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A poisson regression model for assessing force majeure claims
Empirical legal analysis is an emerging discipline of statistical and legal scholarship. Despite its importance, however, there is a lack of empirical research on the affirmative defense of force majeure, which eliminates liability for a breach of contract in the case of an unforeseeable and …
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An investigation into statistical methods for analysing ordered categorical data.
… statistical methods for analysing ordered categorical data. Some standard descriptive and modelling procedures are described, and the data is analysed using a relatively new statistical package, CHAID, which is designed purely for categorical data analysis. The study is centered around the …
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Objective Bayesian analysis of the 2 x 2 contingency table and the negative binomial distribution
In Bayesian analysis, the “objective” Bayesian approach seeks to select a prior distribution not by using (often subjective) scientific belief or by mathematical convenience, but rather by deriving it under a pre-specified criteria. This approach takes the decision of prior selection out of the …
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Obesity and Vegetarianism in Seventh-day Adventist Women
… <p>The general linear hypothesis analysis shewed that present age and relative weight at age 25 were significant in terms of present relative weight; however, physical activity and socioeconomic stratum were not significant. Diet, defined as vegetarian or non-vegetarian, was only …
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Analyzing the effects of product architecture on technical communication in product development organizations
… interfaces are studied. In addition, through the analysis of the distribution of cross-boundary design interfaces, modular and integrative systems are formally identified, and differences between designing modular versus integrative systems are studied. Two types of statistical analyses were …
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Domain latent class models, equivalent set latent class models, and kernel factor analysis
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-11-26 at 08:35.
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Session-based Intrusion Detection System To Map Anomalous Network Traffic
… Intrusion Detection System through the use of data-mining techniques and anomaly detection. These data-mining techniques will dynamically model what a normal network should look like and reduce the false positive and false negative alarm rates in the process. We will use classification-tree …
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Hiring Practices for Graphic Designers In Utah County, Utah
… recommendations, personality, and education. The data from this study revealed that Utah County employer's standards of evidence matched up closely to national standards of evidence, but the order of importance was slightly different because personality was ranked ahead of recommendations and …
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A Comparison of Various Teaching Methods for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases
… patients taught with visual teaching techniques. Analysis of the data showed support of this hypothesis in that the auditory group improved a mean of 1.8 points, the visual group improved a mean 1.0 points and the control group a mean 0.7 points.</p> <p>A similar sub-hypothesis related to …
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The Relationship of Locus of Control of the Diabetic Patient and Compliance with Medical Regimen
… compliance to the medical regimen.</p> <p>Other data collection instruments were a home visit interview guide aimed at obtaining information regarding diet, medication, and urine testing practices; and a scale for rating each patient’s compliance to his prescribed medial regimen.</p> <p>The I. E. …
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Revising Common Core Georgia Performance Standards Statistics Lesson Plans to Better Align with Statistical Practice
… exposure and practice working with real-life data. Three learning tasks and a performance task are presented covering a unit lesson on statistical regression. The development of Georgia statistics curriculum standards are reviewed and presented.</p>
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Statistical Modeling for High-dimensional Compositional data with Applications to the Human Microbiome
<p>Compositional data refer to the data that lie on a simplex, which are common in many scientific domains such as genomics, geology, and economics. As the components in a composition must sum to one, traditional tests based on unconstrained data become inappropriate, and new statistical methods …
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Two Emotional Factors and Weight Loss Among Females Attending a Weight Control Class
<p>A descriptive study was conducted on twenty-four females attending a weight control class to discover the effect of weight loss upon levels of self-esteem and anxiety, as an understanding of the relation of these factors to reduction and control of weight would prove helpful to community health …
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Knowledge Discovery from Complex Event Time Data with Covariates
… as reliability engineering, complex types of data are encountered which require novel methods of statistical analysis. Handling covariates properly while managing the missing values is a challenging task. These type of issues happen frequently in reliability data analysis. Specifically, …
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Data Analysis and Visualization to Dismantle Gender Discrimination in the Field of Technology
… </em>and <em>PayScale </em>have provided data from the past seven years on top tech companies demographics and salaries. I have analyzed this data using various statistical methods and created <em>Envision Equality</em>. Using this platform, I’ve visualized and displayed data from these …
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Probabilistic Graphical Modeling on Big Data
<p>The rise of Big Data in recent years brings many challenges to modern statistical analysis and modeling. In toxicogenomics, the advancement of high-throughput screening technologies facilitates the generation of massive amount of biological data, a big data phenomena in biomedical science. Yet, …
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A Comparison of the Members of a Children's Health Club with Non-members by Use of a Standardized Health Test and Behavior Inventory
<p>Many methods of health education are being used today to help children and young people grow into healthy useful citizens. A health club is one such method which may be used to provide activities and health knowledge which may influence attitude and behavior.</p> <p>The purpose of this study was …
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Item Order Effects on Attitude Measures
<p>The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the effects of altered item order on attitude measures for both computerized adaptive and conventional survey formats. Based on items modified from a dissertation/thesis completion survey (Green & Kluever, 1997) with three scales, three survey …
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Node Classification on Relational Graphs Using Deep-RGCNs
… layers to learn on highly multi-relational data characteristic of realistic knowledge graphs for node property classification tasks. We propose a deep and improved variant, Deep-RGCNs, with dense and residual skip connections between layers. These skip connections are known to be very …
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