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Monotonicity testing
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Piecewise smooth systems and monotonicity.
… switched positive systems and investigate the monotonicity properties of such systems. We describe many examples of such systems, particulary drawing from the mathematical biology literature, in order to motivate the work in later chapters. We describe the mathematical theory behind our work in …
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Monotonicity aspects of linguistic fuzzy models
… in the data-driven model identification process. Monotonicity is the type of qualitative knowledge that plays a central role in this dissertation. Monotone is hereby interpreted as order-preserving. This dissertation contributes to the ecological modelling domain by the application of fuzzy …
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Rationalizability and Monotonicity in Large Auctions With Noise Traders
For models with ex ante heterogeneity, since models are not restricted in the way of adding a new player as long as new player's private signal distribution satisfies the regularity conditions, the limit economy may not be well defined. Thus, we are only interested in the models with replicated …
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Monotonicity of the Power of Two-Sample Rank Tests
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Monotonicity of the Period Function for Hamiltonian Systems with Potentials
… potential of a harmonic oscillator, we derive a monotonicity criterion for these restrictions. Comparing these restrictions then allows us to establish a new monotonicity criterion for the period function. The strength of this technique lies in modifying a potential, while influencing and …
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LOG-SUPERMODULARITY OF WEIGHT FUNCTIONS AND THE LOADING MONOTONICITY OF WEIGHTED INSURANCE PREMIUMS
… thesis is motivated by a problem concerning the monotonicity of insurance premiums with respect to their loading parameter: the larger the parameter, the larger the insurance premium is expected to be. This property, usually called loading monotonicity, is satisfied by premiums that appear in the …
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Probabilistic Learning of Indexed Families under Monotonicity Constraints: Hierarchy Results and Complexity Aspects
… inference of indexed families under <br>monotonicity constraints. All these inference models are based <br>on the inductive inference model introduced by Gold. We <br>discuss in detail how powerful these probabilistic learning models <br>are in contrast to their deterministic counterparts …
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Linearity and monotonicity of a 10-bit, 125 MHz, segmented current steering digital to analog converter
… this research is to determine the linearity and monotonicity of the THS5651IDW digital to analog converter (DAC), a prototype of the future Texas Instruments TLV5651, 10-bit, 125 MHz communication DAC. Testing was conducted at the Texas Instruments facility on Forest Lane, Dallas, Texas. Texas …
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The role of Walsh structure and ordinal linkage in the optimisation of pseudo-Boolean functions under monotonicity invariance.
Optimisation heuristics rely on implicit or explicit assumptions about the structure of the black-box fitness function they optimise. A review of the literature shows that understanding of structure and linkage is helpful to the design and analysis of heuristics. The aim of this thesis is to …
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Monotonicity Formulas for Diffusion Operators on Manifolds and Carnot Groups, Heat Kernel Asymptotics and Wiener's Criterion on Heisenberg-type Groups
… Almgren’s frequency. These include two types of monotonicity formulas, those of Struwe- and Poon-type [72], [67]. If a diffusion operator <em>L</em> on a complete manifold M satisfies the curvature dimension inequality CD(ρ, <em>n</em>), then we are able to prove that for solutions to …
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Invariant Differential Positivity
… with the formulation of a suitable notion of monotonicity of discrete and continuous-time dynamical systems on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces. In a linear space, monotonicity refers to the property of a system that preserves an ordering of the elements of the space. Monotone systems have …
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Some Stationary and Evolution Problems Governed by Various Notions of Monotone Operators
… of this work is to explore some notions of monotonicity for operators between Banach spaces and the applications to the study of boundary value problems (BVPs) and initial boundary value problems (IBVPs) for partial differential equations (PDEs), with the possibility in the end to examine …
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Analysis of Discrete Fractional Operators and Discrete Fractional Rheological Models
<p>This thesis is comprised of two main parts: Monotonicity results on discrete fractional operators and discrete fractional rheological constitutive equations. In the first part of the thesis, we introduce and prove new monotonicity concepts in discrete fractional calculus. In the remainder, we …
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Improving Inadmissible Hypothesis Testing Procedures in Exponential Family Statistical Models (Lrt, Pointwise Compactness, One-Sided Alternatives)
… violates certain conditions such as convexity or monotonicity. Many authors, for example, Birnbaum (1955), Matthes and Truax (1967), Ferguson (1967), Eaton (1970) and Marden (1981), (1982), have worked on this type of testing problem. They found that a necessary condition for a test to be …
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SYMBOLIC AND NEURAL APPROACHES TO NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCE
… relatively few systems are designed based on monotonicity and natural logic rules; in the neural network tradition, most work is focused exclusively on English. Thus, the first part of the dissertation asks how far a symbolic inference system can go relying only on monotonicity and natural …
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Adaptive designs for complex dose finding studies
… and efficacy increase with the dose. This monotonicity assumption can be violated for novel therapies and for more advanced trials studying drug combinations or schedules. It also becomes common to consider a more complex endpoint rather than a binary one as they can carry more information …
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Lercho ir Selbergo dzeta funkcijų reikšmių pasiskirstymai /
… using MATHEMATICA. In the third chapter, the monotonicity properties of Selberg zeta-functions are investigated. Monotonicity of these two functions is directly related to the location of zeros in the critical strip. The results are compared to the monotonicity properties of the Riemann …
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Some New Results on Composition-Delay Equations with Asymptotically Periodic Solutions
… equations satisfying certain symmetry and monotonicity conditions. In particular we consider equations of the form $$ y_n = \min \{ f(y_{n-k_1},y_{n-m_1} ),f( y_{n-k_2} , y_{n-m_2} ) \}, $$ where $f(u,v) = h(u,v)/v$ for $h$ symmetric in $u$ and $v,$ and $f$ satisfies monotonicity …
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