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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Discriminate analysis"”.
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The use of conditional and potential instability axes for severe weather forceasting
… ridge strengths as predictors, a linear discriminate analysis was performed on dependent and independent datasets from the spring of 2008. Severe probabilistic forecasts were produced using the discriminate analysis and verified using two independent methods. Skill metrics calculated for …
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Assessing Factors that Distinguish First-Generation College Students from Non First-Generation College Students at an Urban Comprehensive University
… by order of the strength of association. Data analysis for this study consisted of a combination of chi-square and descriptive discriminate analysis using logistic regression. Chi-square analysis was the preliminary statistical procedure used in this study. I relied on a sequence of chi-square …
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Adolescent dating violence
… theory is used to frame the study. Factor analysis was used to identify coping strategies and negotiation styles. Discriminate analysis was used to determine the discriminating power of the independent variables. Findings indicate that the negotiation style of Negative Affect and the coping …
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Unintended Outcomes: The Effects of an Entity's Educator Preparation Accreditation on Access to Certification for Individuals of Color
… 2001. Linear Regression, Box Test, Predictive Discriminate Analysis, and frequency distribution tables were used for analyses. This investigation examined the effects of the independent variable of TASP Reading score on the performance of participants on the dependent variable, the ExCET. Four …
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West Virginia state legislators' opinions of local mass media
… "middle-of-the-road" lawmakers. The thesis used discriminate analysis to develop a statistically significant function able to classify, with high confidence, the political orientation of lawmakers, based on their responses to survey questions regarding the quantity and accuracy of local media …
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Desire for thinness and desire for health in eighteen and nineteen-year-old females
… in subjects.;Using the statistical process of discriminate analysis, 51.6% of 345 subjects were correctly classified into groups desiring thinness and/or health. Only weight perception accuracy and food management group were found to be significant individual predictors, but their Eigenvalues …
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Pre- and Post-Partum Whistle Production of a Bottlenose Dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) Mother-Calf Dyad
… the mother’s production began to decrease. A discriminate analysis was used to determine the presence of adult contours in the calf’s repertoire. While adult contour imitation occurred in the calf’s whistle use, no favored whistle type appeared. In addition to adult contour imitations, the …
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Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in the Appomattox River Watershed
… city of Petersburg). Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis, a known source library of 1,280 E. coli isolates (320 isolates per source) was constructed. Water samples were collected monthly for between eleven and fourteen months (11/02-12/03) from 40 locations throughout the Appomattox watershed and …
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Parental participation in homework completion as a predictor of academic success of students in the single parent family
… school records. The data were analyzed using discriminate analysis statistical techniques to determine group membership and to determine the strength of the four levels or a combination of the four levels of parental participation in homework completion in conjunction with student …
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Nymphaea odorata (Water-lily, Nymphaeaceae): Analyses of molecular and morphological studies
… Sixteen accessions were chosen for trnL-F analysis, where a subspecies-specific molecular marker was found. In most accessions the marker confirmed the original subspecies classification. Molecular analyses using ISSRs characterized among population variation in N. odorata and N. mexicana …
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A study of the relationships between personality as indicated by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and leadership strengths and weaknesses as identified by Skillscope
… and ratings by knowledgeable observers. The discriminate analysis of the Skillscope leadership feedback instrument compared with the selected personality types revealed that personal management was a strength for both ISTJs and ESTJs. The decision-making skill was a strength for ISTJs, and …
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An investigation into the ability of three analytical techniques to discriminate batches of methlamphetamine prepared by seven synthetic routes
… provenance for data interpretation. Organic analysis of all samples was undertaken using a developed and partially validated GCMS impurity profiling method. Basic and acidic impurities were extracted separately and analysed using a DB-1 MS column. The GCMS method discriminated all routes …
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An analysis of the relationship between vocational assessment procedures and vocational training outcomes in a CETA training center
… and test data were analyzed by means of a discriminate analysis program in an effort to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful trainee termination. The results of the study indicated that for each of the three assessment techniques tested: (1) Academic Tests, (2) Work Samples, …
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Metabolomic comparison of selected Helichrysum species to predict their antiviral properties
… study was analysed using the SIMCA-P software to discriminate between the different species on the basis of their bioactivity and chemical composition. The samples did not group well on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) but did separate well using the Orthogonal Projection to Latent Structure – …
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Identification of molecular markers and association mapping of selected loci associated with agronomic traits in rice
Discriminate Analysis as a procedure was evaluated to select molecular markers associated with complex traits in US rice germplasm. Markers for percent head rice, percent total rice, and grain yield were identified with high levels of correct classification that mapped within or near traditional …
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Examination of the Predictive Validity of Risk Assessment Screening
… Bernardino and Rancho Cucamonga, California. The analysis of the study's hypothesis and classification of additional findings made use of Kendall's Tau-b (a method of cross tabulation analysis), Discriminate Analysis, Chi Square and Multiple Regression Analysis. The antecedent variable is risk …
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Robust Speaker Diarization for Single Channel Recorded Meetings
… measure was derived based on the Fisher Linear Discriminate Analysis to help detect short speaker turns. Third, the Equal Weight Penalty Criterion was formulated as a new model complexity selection criterion to train both the speakers' models and the Universal Background Model (UBM). It contains …
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An Exploration of the Interest in and Challenges of Fostering Undergraduate Leadership-Development at Andrews University
… levels of leadership-development programs. The discriminate analysis showed that other demographic variables are not predictors of likely participation. The lack of characteristic predictors may be due to the generally high interest in leadership-development found in every demographic group. …
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The psychological and social implications of patient motivation and satisfaction with orthgnathic surgery
… criterion variance, were derived by using factor analysis.A nonrandomized, pretest-posttest design with a one-way, multivariate analysis of variance yielding a Hotelling T square statistic was used. A discriminate analysis of variance was used as a follow-up to the Hotelling T square to note those …
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Evaluation of Structure and Growth of Bluegills and Black Bullheads Stocked With Largemouth Bass in South Dakota Farm Ponds
… while bullhead YAR values were extremely high. Discriminate analysis was used for predicting physical and chemical parameters influencing survival of individual fish populations. Five parameters were selected (area, maximum depth, conductivity, turbidity, and carbonates) and pons were analyzed …
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