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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"distributional analysis"”.
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A distributional analysis of healthcare financing in a developing country : a Nigerian case study applying a decomposable Gini index
The policy motivation for this research is primarily to investigate how in the direct absence of significant third-party financing mechanisms and government subsidies, direct purchase of healthcare affects the relative abilities of households to meet their other financial obligations after paying …
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Distributional analysis of the freshwater mussel fauna of the Tennessee River system, with special reference to possible limiting effects of siltation
Mussel studies in the Tennessee River drainage (1973 - 1982) examined ecology and distribution and investigated factors limiting to distribution. This river system presently supports 71 freshwater mussel species, 25% of which are endemic to the Cumberlandian Region. Species have been extirpated …
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EVALUATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND EXTENSION OF FLEXIBLE PARAMETRIC MODELS FOR THE DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF CENSORED AND NON-CENSORED DATA: A FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING AND COMMUNICATING THE FULL DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH OUTCOMES.
Background: Time-to-event analysis is a cornerstone of medical research, yet standard methods often rely on restrictive assumptions that limit their clinical utility and causal interpretability. The Hazard Ratio (HR), while popular, suffers from non-collapsibility and lacks a straightforward causal …
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A Systems Approach to the Modeling and Control of Molecular, Microparticle, and Biological Distributions
… algorithm development, parameter sensitivity analysis, parameter estimation, model validation, optimal control formulation, and worst-case and distributional robustness analysis. Free radical bulk polymerization is the model system for molecular distributions. In situ ATR-FTIR spectroscopy was …
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Unsupervised syntactic category learning from child-directed speech
… of syntactic categories can be learned using distributional analysis on linear context of words, specifically in child-directed speech. The idea behind this is that the categories used by children could very well be different from adult categories. There is some evidence that distributional …
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Understanding Semantic Implicit Learning through distributional linguistic patterns: A computational perspective
… but upon semantic-like knowledge gained through distributional analysis of massive linguistic input. Using methods borrowed from the machine learning and artificial intelligence literature, we construct computational models, which can simulate the performance observed during behavioural tasks of …
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Lexical Aspectual Classification
… each initially containing a few members. Using distributional analysis I generate 132 additional seeds, each of which was approved by at least seven out of nine judges. These seeds are in turn fed into a supervised machine learning system, trained on 136 lexical and syntactic features. I …
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Parowan Pottery and Fremont Complexity: Late Formative Ceramic Production and Exchange
… via two data sets -- a chemical assay and a distributional analysis. I argue that Snake Valley pottery was probably produced in a restricted area, the Parowan Valley, and that production was organized as community craft specialization, though I acknowledge that more research on this topic is …
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An Investigative Comparison Between Four Approaches to Discourse Analysis Using MT Esther as a Test Case
… four approaches to Biblical Hebrew discourse analysis using the Masoretic Text of Esther as a test case: the tagmemic, distributional, information structure, and interclausal approaches. Whereas traditional exegesis tends to focus on grammar and syntax at the level of the word, clause, or …
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Compatibility and complementarity of alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) as forage fish in Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia
… exploitative competition between the clupeids. Distributional analysis indicated that gizzard shad were primarily uplake and littoral while alewives were mostly downlake and pelagic. Alewives co-occurred with striped bass and walleye during the growing season and were crucial in providing forage …
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Ground stone lithic technology of the Indian Peaks, Colorado, USA
… and on a regional scale. Drawing from a distributional approach to archaeology and a technological approach to artifact analysis, the present study addresses the behavioral implications of ground stone tool presence in the high altitudes of the CFR by employing a three-tiered …