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Showing 1 to 20 of 449 for “"Probability distribution"”.
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Joint probability distribution of rainfall intensity and duration
… hydraulic structures. The traditional Gumbel probability method entails selecting annual maximum rainfall depths (intensities) conditioned on a fixed time window width (which in general will not coincide with the rainfall event duration) from a continuous record to perform a frequency analysis …
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A PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION APPROACH TO DESCRIBE CUSTOMER COSTS DUE TO ELECTRIC SUPPLY INTERRUPTIONS
… technique is designated in this thesis as the probability distribution approach. The fundamental cost data utilized in this thesis comes from the 1991 cost of interruption study performed by the Power Systems Research Group at the University of Saskatchewan which surveyed residential, …
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The Impact of an Instructional Intervention Designed to Support Development of Stochastic Understanding of Probability Distribution
Stochastic understanding of probability distribution undergirds development of conceptual connections between probability and statistics and supports development of a principled understanding of statistical inference. This study investigated the impact of an instructional course intervention …
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Asymptotic Expansion for the Time Evolution of the Probability Distribution Given by the Brownian Motion on Semialgebraic Sets
In this thesis, we examine whether the probability distribution given by the Brownian Motion on a semialgebraic set is definable in an o-minimal structure and we establish asymptotic expansions for the time evolution. We study the probability distribution as an example for the occurrence of special …
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Applications of the binomial probability distribution and discrimination net theory in modeling short-term human memory in a console operator situation
… to determine the applicability of the binomial probability distribution in modeling short-term, human memory. Further, the use of discrimination net theory principles in tests of recall was examined. Although the analysis showed the binomial probability distribution to be applicable in modeling …
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Analysis of Price Expectations of Select Illinois Hog Producers
… identifies and models the subjective probability distribution of an unknown decision variable, hog price expectations. The four specific goals were: (1) to describe the shape of the subjective probability distribution; (2) to examine how the expectations behave over time and across …
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Target search methods for space situational awareness
… and the initial size of candidate location distribution, it is desirable to develop efficient search techniques. In this work, information-theoretic methods for searching a target in a large probability distribution using a space based sensor is considered. One intuitive approach is to steer …
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The interfacial shear stress failure of flawed fiber composites
This thesis derives a Probability distribution function which expresses the expected length of discontinuous fiber segments in a uniaxially aligned fiber reinforced composite. The strength of elemental volumes of fiber, used in this derivation are inferred from 1ength versus strength tests.on …
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Distributionally robust optimization for design under partially observable uncertainty
… used is a probabilistic approach: assigning a probability distribution to each uncertain parameter. However, this presents the designer with the task of assuming these probability distributions or estimating them from data, tasks which are inevitably prone to error. This thesis addresses this …
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Parametric, Non-Parametric And Statistical Modeling Of Stony Coral Reef Data
… In chapter two, we identify the underlying probability distribution function of the stony coral cover proportions and we obtain better estimates of the statistical properties of stony coral cover proportions. Furthermore, we improve present procedures in constructing confidence intervals of …
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Estimativa do período de retorno de enchentes em postos fluviométricos, com curto período de observação
… on this problem, where the bivariate exponential probability distribution was used for the distribution of exceedences and the bivariate binomial probability distribution for the number of exceedences. The case when the exceedences above a base level have different distributions such as the …
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The volatility smile of Canadian index options : estimations and tests
… be incorrect to assume that the risk neutral probability distribution of the underlying asset is lognormal. The observation of a volatility smile justifies the use of different models to recover the risk neutral probability distribution of the underlying asset. In fact, a probability …
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Models for ocean waves
… that require consideration. These include the probability distribution of wave heights, the seasonal variation and the persistence, or duration, of calm and storm periods. If one is primarily interested in extreme wave height then it is possible to restrict one's attention to events which are …
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Buyer's Choice of Online Search Strategy and Its Implications for E -Markets
… mathematical model that is used to estimate the probability distribution of a buyer's online search strategy choice. The study illustrates how an online seller can combine this knowledge about the probability distribution of buyers' choice of online search strategy with the distribution of market …
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Distribution of Holonomy about Closed Geodesics on Compact Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
… their length and holonomy and imply e ective equidistribution of holonomy in shrinking intervals. These theorems result from a non-spherical Selberg's trace formula which relates spectral information to lengths and holonomies of closed geodesics. Then, we show that although holonomy is …
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Eliciting continuous probability distributions
The process of eliciting a representative probability distribution from a judge is fundamental to decision making under uncertainty. This work summarizes several aspects of eliciting continuous probability distributions. Through experimentation involving 103 judges the method of assessing single …
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A Numerical Study of the Multi-Component Effects on the Combustion and Evaporation of Biofuels and Blends
… fuel (or liquid mixture) is described using a probability distribution function. The variation of composition in both liquid and vapor phases is represented by tracing the changes of the probability distribution function parameters. In the present study, the gamma distribution is used to …
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Order statistics for a discrete parent distribution
… of order statistics drawn from discrete parent distributions. New procedures are followed for the derivation of the distribution of the r<sup>th</sup> order statistic x<sub>(r)</sub> and of the joint distribution of x<sub>(r)</sub>, x<sub>(s)</sub> (s > r), that is, we first derive the …
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Patrol plan of motor gunboat (PGM. Allied Class) for infiltration from sea
… The patrol plan to be used is determined by a probability distribution associated with incoming targets.
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Learning Models for Multi-Viewpoint Object Detection
… uses a generative model that models the joint probability distribution over the locations and visibility of all the object parts. The second approach employs a discriminative Conditional Random Field based model to encode the relative geometry and co-occurrence constraints.
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