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Discriminant function analysis for categorization of best practices
… performance classification models using multiple discriminant function analyses that divide project cost and schedule performance into four groups. The study will examine the best practices that discriminate the most among these four groups. These results are then summarized into a best practice …
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Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Three Crania Housed at the University of Montana Physical Anthropology Lab
… statistical analyses: principal components analysis and discriminant function analysis. It was shown that the Michigan database was more effective at classifying UMFC 103, 104, and 120 into one of the predetermined populations than the Hanihara database. Based on these analyses UMFC 103 is …
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Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Three Crania Housed at the University of Montana Physical Anthropology Lab
… statistical analyses: principal components analysis and discriminant function analysis. It was shown that the Michigan database was more effective at classifying UMFC 103, 104, and 120 into one of the predetermined populations than the Hanihara database. Based on these analyses UMFC 103 is …
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Parkinson's disease: An investigation of relevant marital and family factors
… of multiple regression analyses, a two-group discriminant function analysis, and a multiple discriminant function analysis. A series of independent t-tests were also conducted to ascertain whether or not the average burden score generated from this sample differed from mean burden scores of …
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Sexual dimorphism of the thoracic vertebrae in a modern Cretan population: a comparison of the individual vertebrae in terms of accuracy in estimating sex.
… in a vertebra was eleven. The univariate discriminant function analysis yielded results with up to 89.4% total accuracy. Using a stepwise method of discriminant function analysis, two variables in T1 predicted sex with 90.6% total accuracy. In comparison to previous research on other …
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Use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test to aid in diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
… DSM-IV-TR Axis I diagnosis. A hierarchical discriminant function analysis was used to examine the ability of selected Rorschach variables to improve accuracy of diagnosis beyond the use of historical and behavioral variables alone. A discriminant function analysis with historical and …
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Sex and Ancestry Estimation Using the Base of the Cranium
Discriminant function analysis was employed to test sexual dimorphism and ancestral differences in the basicrania of European Americans and African Americans. The data used was originally collected on crania from the Terry and Bass III Donated Collections, using a three-dimensional digitizer. The …
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Sex and Ancestry Estimation Using the Base of the Cranium
Discriminant function analysis was employed to test sexual dimorphism and ancestral differences in the basicrania of European Americans and African Americans. The data used was originally collected on crania from the Terry and Bass III Donated Collections, using a three-dimensional digitizer. The …
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Teachers' Use of Fitness Tests and the Factors Influencing Their Use
… who graduated in earlier years. The results of discriminant function analysis suggested that teachers' overall attitudes, types of schools, and the grade levels were the key factors to predict teachers' use of fitness tests.
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Does the Preparticipation Examination Aid in Identifying Future Risk of Concussion?
… the relationship between neuropsychological function and potential risk of sustaining a concussion.</p> <p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study sought to identify a relationship between components of a standard PPE and an elevated risk of concussion.</p> <p><strong>Design: </strong>All data …
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An examination of the high-achieving community college transfer student at a research university
… College Park for the Fall, 1988 semester. Discriminant function analysis was used to answer the following question, "What predicts academic success, as defined by grade-point average, of community college transfer students to a research university?" The criterion or dependent variable was …
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NCAA Division I Athletes Preferences for Coaching Behaviors
… of NCAA Division I athletes differ as a function of gender and type of sport. The Coaching Behavior Questionnare (CBQ; Martin & Barnes, 1999) was administered to 195 NCAA Division I athletes. Gender and sport type were the independent variables and the participant's mean scores for the …
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Electrophoretic and Morphological Evaluation of Stizostedion Species Collected from Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota
… 10% of 279 percids analyzed. Univariate analysis indicated that counts for eight meristic characters of hybrids were intermediate to, but not significantly different (P ≥ 0.05) form those of parental species, because the respective counts overlapped broadly. Discriminant analysis revealed …
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Adolescent Psychopathy in an Adjudicated Male Population: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Disorders
… disorder and oppositional defiant disorder. A discriminant function analysis found that sensation seeking, impulsivity, ADHD, Conduct Disorder, and Oppositional Defiant Disorder was moderately useful in classifying adolescent psychopathy. The results suggest that behavioral dysregulation is an …
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Utilization of natural nest sites by Eastern Bluebirds in southwestern Virginia
… vulgaris</i>) fencepost nest cavities, using discriminant function analysis. Four nest cavities used by bluebirds in 1976 were no longer available in 1977 due to the replacement of fenceposts and tree limb breakage. No new cavities in fenceposts were observed being excavated by woodpeckers.
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Identifying And Understanding Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among College Students
… to students that did not. </p> <p>In addition, a discriminant function analysis was conducted. It was </p> <p>found that intrapersonal and interpersonal variables predicted group </p> <p>membership (i.e. social desirability, body protection, positive affect, </p> <p>comfort with touch, and …
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Multivariate Discrimination of Emotion-Specific Autonomic Nervous System Activity
… derived from the ECG. Pattern classification analysis revealed emotion-specific patterning for all emotion conditions except disgust. Discriminant function analysis was used to describe the location of discrete emotions within a dimensional affective state space, for both self-report and ANS …
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Electrophoretic, Morphometric, and Meristic Comparisons of Walleye Broodstock in South Dakota
… diagnostic tool to separate the stocks visually. Discriminant function analysis of eight of the most powerful discriminatory characters was successful in correctly classifying walleyes by origin with 83-97% accuracy.
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The role of readiness to change and other patient factors in the prediction of dropout from treatment-for problem drinking of alcohol.
… and multivariate statistical analyses (namely, discriminant function analysis). The findings indicated that statistically, significantly more daypatieots ~ped out of the Rehabilitation Programme than did inpatients. The discriminant function analysis suggested that six patient factors …
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Improving individual identification of wolves (Canis lupus) using the fundamental frequency and amplitude of their howls: a new survey method
… with histogram-derived principal component analysis (PCA) values, can improve current individual wolf howl identification accuracies. From a total of 89 solo howls from six captive individuals, where distances between wolf and observer were short, I achieved 95.5% (+9.0% improvement) …
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