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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Distribution Theory"”.
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Advances in Copula Estimation and Distribution Theory
This dissertation initially features distributional results related to copulas. Four distinct copula density estimation methodologies, including Bernstein’s polynomial approximation, are proposed and criteria for the selection of their tuning parameters are provided. These four approaches were …
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International franchise distribution: Theory and empirical evidence
The objective of this study is to determine how US franchisors in the food service, hotels/motels, and business services industries choose between owning the wholesaler or contracting with an independent wholesaler to distribute their franchise system in host countries. US franchisors own the …
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Multiplication of Singularity Functions by Discontinuous Functions in Schwartz Distribution Theory
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Beatty ratios, algorithms related to Sturmian sequences and uniform distribution theory
… a short interval $[\gamma,\gamma+\eta]$, the distribution becomes continuous. Moreover, this continuous distribution is universal in the sense that it is the same for any $\gamma$ and any interval around $\gamma$. Under these circumstances one would expect that the above averaging process …
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Designing Smarter Stormwater Systems at Multiple Scales with Transit Time Distribution Theory and Real-Time Control
… Chapter 2 focuses on clean bed filtration theory and its application to fecal indicator bacteria removal in experimental laboratory-scale biofilters. This analysis is a significant step forward in our understanding of how physicochemical theories can be melded with hydrology, engineering …
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Unveiling Causal Links, Temporal Patterns, and System-Level Dynamics of Freshwater Salinization Using Transit Time Distribution Theory
… The novel application of unsteady transit time theory reveals that stream salinization can be linked to watershed salt sources using stream water age as a master variable and provides a real-time prediction model for sodium concentration in the reservoir. These results identify substantial …
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Aspects of multivariate complex quadratic forms
In this study the distributional properties of certain multivariate complex quadratic forms and their characteristic roots are investigated. Multivariate complex distribution theory was originally introduced by Wooding (1956), Turin (1960) and Goodman (1963a) when they derived and studied the …
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UMVU estimation of phase and group delay with small samples
… be performed in small samples is the fact that distribution theory for spectral estimates is highly asymptotic and one can never be certain in a particular application what finite sample size is required to justify the asymptotic result. In the dissertation the asymptotic distribution theory is …
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WESSELMAN FARM, AN ARCHAIC SITE ON THE LOWER GREAT MIAMI RIVER, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
… changes our understanding of Archaic settlement distribution theory.
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An Investigation into Predictors of Competitive Success in a Large-Scale Group Foraging Task
Ideal Free Distribution Theory (IFD) (Fretwell & Lucas, 1970) suggests that the allocation of organisms to two or more resource sites is a function of the available resources at each site. Experimental arrangements involving human participants consist of a series of trials in which participants …
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On the detection of seasonal variation in the onset of disease
… nature of the date of onset means that Normal distribution theory is not appropriate. Instead the von Mises distribution on a circle and angular regression methods are required. A computer program is developed to implement the methodology. The thesis re-examines, using angular methodology, …
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Uniform Confidence Band for Pricing Kernels
… In this framework, we develop the asymptotic distribution theory of the EPK in the L1 sense. Particularly, to evaluate the overall variation of the pricing kernel, we develop a uniform confidence band of the EPK. Furthermore, as an alternative to the asymptotic approach, we propose a bootstrap …
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An alternative model for multivariate stable distributions
… "An Alternative Model for Multivariate Stable Distributions", depicts, this thesis draws from the methodology of [J36] and derives an alternative to the sub-Gaussian alpha-stable distribution as another model for multivariate stable data without using the spectral measure as a dependence …
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On monitoring the attributes of a process
… with multiple attributes. Some relevant distribution theory is reviewed, and some new results are given. The distributions considered are multivariate versions of the binomial, Poisson, and chi-squared distributions, plus univariate and multivariate generalized Poisson distributions. All …
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Correlation of predicted breeding values across environments in the presence of selection for direct and maternal breeding values
… compared to expectations derived from univariate distribution theory. Selection definitely affected the expectations. However, the adjustment developed from univariate theory appeared to accommodate the effect of selection in these expectations.
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Heat transfer through a condensate droplet on hydrophobic and nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces
… higher than at the droplet top. Droplet distribution theory is incorporated to show that previous modeling approaches under predict the overall heat transfer by as much as 300% for dropwise and jumping-droplet condensation. To verify our simulation results, we study condensed water …
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Extension of Shor's period-finding algorithm to infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces
… function in the algorithm, we develop a new distribution, the delta function for a subspace of an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. We then use this distribution to rigorously prove one of the main identities needed for the algorithm. Finally we provide a rigorous formulation of the hidden …
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Essays on Cross-Sectional and Network Dependence
… as corollaries. Chapter 2: We apply the limiting distribution theory for degenerate U-statistics, discussed in the previous chapter, to kernel smoothing based nonparametric specification tests, allowing for cross-sectional dependence in the underlying processes. This theory is then used to …
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Energy, inequality and pro-poor growth in South Africa
… in South Africa and through what mechanisms. Theory indicates that poverty alleviation comes by growth boosting and inequality reducing policies. As such, the investigation of the pro-poor effects of any policy or factor would naturally culminate in studying the effects on economic growth (or …
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Quality control charts under random fuzzy measurements
… Control Charts; based on credibility measure theory under Random Fuzzy Measurements and Small Sample Asymptotic Distribution Theory. Economic process data will be collected from the study of Duncan (1956) in terms of these new developments as an illustrative example. or/Producer, otherwise …
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