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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"measures of uncertainty"”.
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Directing rural cooperatives in uncertain environments
<p>Data were gathered as a part of an applied research project addressing problems of board decision making and cooperative autonomy in an environment increasingly dominated by external forces. The research focused on perceptions of uncertainty by directors of rural cooperatives, sources of …
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Player performance evaluation in rugby using Stochastic Multi-Criteria Acceptability Analysis with simplified uncertainty formats
… makers are unable or unwilling to assess trade-off information precisely. The primary aim is to investigate the use of Stochastic Multi-criteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) with simplified representations of uncertainty as a decision support tool for prescriptive modelling in 'low involvement' …
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Bayesian Hidden Markov Models for finding DNA Copy Number Changes from SNP Genotyping Arrays
… which involve the deletion or duplication of subchromosomal segments of the genome, have become a focus of genetics research. This dissertation develops Bayesian HMMs for finding CNVs from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays. A Bayesian framework to reconstruct the DNA copy number …
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Extensions of Weighted Multidimensional Scaling with Statistics for Data Visualization and Process Monitoring
This dissertation is the compilation of two major innovations that rely on a common technique known as multidimensional scaling (MDS). MDS is a dimension-reduction method that takes high-dimensional data and creates low-dimensional versions. Project 1: Visualizations are useful when learning from …
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Type-2 Fuzzy Alpha-cuts
Systems that utilise type-2 fuzzy sets to handle uncertainty have not been implemented in real world applications unlike the astonishing number of applications involving standard fuzzy sets. The main reason behind this is the complex mathematical nature of type-2 fuzzy sets which is the source of …
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Opportunist to risk manager: reverse engineering the Taylor rule
… the federal funds rate over the formative years of the Greenspan regime, then considered to have experienced a number of early successes. While acknowledged as being simple and robust, the Taylor Rule does not, however, capture the nonlinearity of monetary policy as expressed by a number of …
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Resource allocation and Uncertainties: An application case study of portfolio decision analysis and a numerical analysis on evidence theory
… more theoretical, is a numerical comparison of uncertainty measures within evidence theory. Nowadays, portfolio problems are very common and present in several fields of study. The problem is inspired by a real-world infrastructure manage- ment case in the energy distribution sector. The …
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Quantum Resource Theories for Thermodynamics, Reference Frames, and Uncertainty
Quantum information science is at the interface of physics and information theory, with applications including quantum computing and communication. Within this science, a resource theory is a detailed study of a particular class of physical processes, under which the possible state transitions are …
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Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of computational simulations of industrial jet flows
The main purpose of this thesis has been to improve the deterministic computational simulations of two industrial problems with a stochastic approach. For this purpose, uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis have been carried out in two industrial jet flows with different …
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Reasoning for Public Transportation Systems Planning: Use of Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence
Policy-makers of today's public transportation investment projects engage in debates in which the reasonableness and clarity of their judgment are tested many times. How to recommend the transportation system that achieves project's goals and different stakeholders' needs in a most logical and …
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Modeling the Production of Microalgal Biodiesel
<p>ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION</p><p>Modeling the Production of Microalgal Biodiesel</p><p>by</p><p>Mark Henson</p><p>Doctor of Philosophy in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering</p><p>Washington University in St. Louis, 2013</p><p>Professor Pratim Biswas, Chair</p><p>Biodiesel produced …