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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Robust procedure"”.
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Geometric Trimming and Curvature Continuous Surface Blending for Aircraft Fuselage and Wing Shapes
… corresponding portion of the original surface. A robust procedure is developed to geometrically trim the intersecting surfaces and blend the trimmed surface patches into one new surface. This research generates a filleting algorithm for surface blending of an aircraft fuselage shape and a wing …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Descriptive Praise and General Praise on Acquisition in Young Children
… types of praise (i.e., without the use of other procedures such as error correction, within-session prompts, or additional reinforcers such as tokens) for teaching letters, phonemes, and sight words to preschool children and (b) determining child preference for the different types of praise. …
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Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath Africa and Arabia
… to constrain convective mantle flow patterns. A robust procedure involving automatic and manual batch processing to reliably assess and objectively rank shear-wave splitting parameters were used. The resulting 1532 pairs of splitting parameters show a NNE dominated fast direction. Spatial …
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Robust Statistical Modeling In Functional Linear Regression
… distributions in the data. Consequently, robust statistical analysis remains an underdeveloped practice in this area. The primary objective of this dissertation is to enhance the utilization of robust methods for modeling functional linear regression by primarily focusing on robust …
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Lp norm estimation procedures and an L1 norm algorithm for unconstrained and constrained estimation for linear models
… Previous work has shown that L₁ estimation is a robust procedure in the sense that it leads to an estimator which has greater statistical efficiency than the least squares estimator in the presence of outliers, and that L₁ estimators have some- desirable statistical properties asymptotically. …
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A post-processing framework for group fairness
… learning fair classifiers that also addresses robustness and privacy cohesively. At its core is a post-processing algorithm that applies lightweight adjustments to the predictions output by existing models to achieve group fairness; it recovers the optimal fair classifier when the base …
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Inference of time series regression models with weakly dependent errors
In this thesis we develop inferential methods for time series models with weakly dependent errors in the following three aspects. The first aspect concerns the issue of the size-distortion in the presence of strong temporal dependence, which is well-known in the literature. There are recently …
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Computational predictions and reactivity analyses of organic reactions
… to set up a more efficient and automated procedure for tackling the challenges of exploring the conformational space, investigating the effect of reaction dynamics and suggesting possible reaction pathways. Chapter 2 focuses on the selective pyridination of 5-methylcytosine. A new reaction …
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Nondifferentiable Optimization of Lagrangian Dual Formulations for Linear Programs with Recovery of Primal Solutions
… reveals that this approach yields a competitive procedure as compared with alternative strategies including the average direction strategy (ADS) of Sherali and Ulular (1989), a modified Polyak-Kelley cutting-plane strategy (PKC) designed by Sherali et al. (2001), and the modified Volume Algorithm …