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Showing 1 to 20 of 436 for “"Normality"”.
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Assessment of bivariate normality
… are most commonly used to assess the bivariate normality of paired data, two of which are also used to assess the multivariate normality. Nevertheless, none of the methods is very efficient or conclusive in their assessment of bivariate normality. In this thesis we are proposing a new method to …
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Fisher Information Test of Normality
… with the same variance. A new test of normality proposed by Terrell (1995) utilizes the above property by finding that density of maximum likelihood constrained on having the expected Fisher Information under normality based on the sample variance. The test statistic is then constructed …
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Coarser connected topologies and non-normality points
… two topics, coarser connected topologies and non-normality points. The motivating question in the first topic is: When does a space have a coarser connected topology with a nice topological property? We will discuss some results when the property is Hausdorff and prove that if X is a non-compact …
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Portfolio risk minimization under departures from normality
This thesis revisits the portfolio selection problem in cases where returns cannot be modeled as Gaussian. The emphasis is on the development of financially intuitive and statistically sound approaches to portfolio risk minimization. When returns exhibit asymmetry, we propose using a quantile-based …
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Asian Indian Perceptions of Normality: A Qualitative Study
… health. The most commonly accepted definition of normality currently in use in the West is based on the models of health, utopia, average, transactional systems, and pragmatism. However, people from non-European cultures, such as Asian Indians, may not be represented by these current parameters of …
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MELTING INTO THE MARGINS: THE DIS-APPEARANCE OF NORMALITY
… in the academic and media debate about normality: the white nuclear family and white middle class men. This thesis traces the emergence of the contemporary discourse which suggests that the normal is being displaced into the margins, away from the centre, 'disproved' as a lived condition …
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The Near Normality of the Commutant of a Moufang Loop
… giving relevant background on Moufang loops and normality. We then prove a theorem showing how close the commutant is to being normal: cR(x, y)R(x, y)R(x, y) = c. We then prove a couple of theorems emphasizing the importance of cubes in Moufang loops. Finally we prove a decomposition theorem for …
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Reciprocity and Normality in the Scattering Matrix of Disordered Media
… across sample types. Furthermore, matrix normality was introduced as a descriptor of stable modal transport. Normal matrices admit unitary diagonalization, reflecting orthogonal eigenchannels and spectrally coherent propagation. Near-normal behavior was observed in fiber TMs, while RMs of …
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Health and human nature: A naturalist's account of health and normality
… and normativists about the notions of health, normality and disease has largely revolved around the fact-value distinction and the problem of the place of values in biomedical science. In this essay it is argued that the proper place for a naturalist to begin an investigation of these notions …
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Normality of JSE Returns: Macro-outliers, Micro-outliers: an Empirical Evaluation
… of the data exhibits significant departures from normality in empirical distribution function, and regression and correlation tests. The results were statistically significant at three confidence levels. However, in the case of moment tests, the results show a clear divergence between the methods. …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
Nations exist because individuals believe in their existence; the foundations of such beliefs can be explored through the study of individual lives. This political biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
Nations exist because individuals believe in their existence; the foundations of such beliefs can be explored through the study of individual lives. This political biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's …
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Women's experiences of their perineum following childbirth: expectations, reality and returning to normality.
… expectations, reality and returning to normality The aim of the study was to explore the feelings, perceptions and experiences of women in relation to their perineum following childbirth in the early postnatal period. A grounded theory approach was used for collecting and analysing data …
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Thin trading, non-normality and the estimation of systematic risk on small stock markets
… small stock markets, namely thin trading and non-normality, and how they impact on the estimation of systematic risk. Bearing these points in mind, the primary objective of the thesis is to offer concrete suggestions for selecting estimators of beta coefficients. In order to attain the objective …
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The robustness to non-normality of significance levels of the t and F tests
… of variance are insensitive to departures from normality. But the F-test on the equality of two variances is very sensitive to such departures. Empirical studies made by Norton (19) and Boneau (3) agree with Gayen's theoretical conclusions. Norton studied the effect of non-normality on the …
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QUOTIENTS, EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS, AND NORMALITY IN NON-ASSOCIATIVE ALGEBRA WITH REGARDS TO LOOPS AND QUASIGROUPS
… a detailed overview of relations, quotients, normality, loops, quasigroups, and related theorems and varieties. Nonassociative algebra is a relatively new area of mathematics, it came about in the past hundred years, and has started making progress in the past 60 years. In nonassociative …
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