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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"multiple regression model"”.
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A Zone-Based Multiple Regression Model to Visualize GPS Locations on a Surveillance Camera Image
… "understand" what is happening. My research uses multiple curvilinear regression models to accurately place differentially corrected GPS points with submeter accuracy onto a camera image. Optimal results were achieved after splitting the image into four zones with the focus on calibrating each …
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Forecasting outbound tourism from Australia to Greece
… and policy makers in the Tourism Industry - a multiple regression model and one classical decomposition model were constructed in order to investigate Outbound Tourism from Australia to Greece.
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Factors Associated with Wean Duration Length as a Measure of Iatrogenic Withdrawal Syndrome in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Chart Review
… 31, 2022. Univariate and multivariable linear regressions were used to estimate associations between patient, process, and system level variables and wean duration length. Results: Patient, process, and system level variables were associated with wean duration length on univariate analysis. …
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Inference for Predictor Comparisons: Dominance Analysis and the Distribution of R(2) Differences
… predictors in the general linear (for example, multiple regression) model, the relative importance based on differences between the R2 values of relevant subset models. Depending on the subset models compared, the dominance measure is defined as either complete, average or global dominance. It …
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An analysis of vegetation pattern and its relationship to NDVI data in the Namaqualand area, South Africa
… (PET) (r = 0.60, -0.63 respectively). A multiple regression model explained 52% of the variance when Mean Annual NDVI was related to climatic variables. Mean NDVI in August (the month of maximum NDVI in most of Namaqualand) was significantly related to PET and the current plus two …
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Life Satisfaction and the Oldest-Old. Results from the longitudinal population study "Good Aging in Skåne".
… factors were included. In a logistic multiple regression model the number of symptoms, marital status, health locus of control (HLoC) internal and powerful others, depressive mood and age could predict LS three years later. Independence in functional ability was related to unchanged …
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The Effects of Parental Educational Level and Selected School Variables Across Academic Tracks on Student Reading Achievement
… (IEA) for their six-subject survey. The multiple regression model used in the IEA studies is replaced with an analysis of linear structural relationships (LISREL) model which does not assume an unidirectional causal relation between the variables and which also does not assume error-free …
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Inequality and School Performance: The Effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Test
… in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. A multiple regression model was used and included other factors such as socioeconomic status of students, teacher salary, school funding, and student-teacher ratio. Using an ordinary least squares regression, I found that socioeconomic status of …
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Prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in peripheral arterial disease and its relation to blood pressure
… LVH indexed to body surface area was 50%. In a multiple regression model the factors independently related to LVH were age, sex and history of diabetes. There was no relation between presence of LVH and 24 hour blood pressure.<br/><br/>Conclusion: LVH is prevalent in patients with PAD and is not …
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An investigation of the determinants of firm's capital structure : the case of industrial firms listed on the JSE securities exchange
… firms each year from 1997-2002. Using a multiple regression model, size a trangibility have a postive effect on financial leverage, with the exception of the negative impact of tangibility when financial leverage is measured grossly with all liabilities. With this exception, the results …
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The Protective Factors and Life Outcomes of Youth Exposed to Community Violence
… Study of Adolescent Health studies. A nested multiple regression model was used to evaluate the data. The results show that individuals with mentors are more likely to be civically engaged during young adulthood.</p>
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Does the capital structure impact the company performance: empirical research of the effect of financing decisions on a company’s profitability? Evidence from the UK Pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector
… and value. The research was conducted using a multiple regression model on a sample of 10 pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies listed on the London FTSE all share from 2016 to 2021 for 6 years period to evaluate the type of connection between gearing and profitability. We tested the …
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Examining Predictors of Quality of Life of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities After Deinstitutionalization
… and the quality of life indicator. The initial multiple regression model accounted for a very small amount of the variance in the outcome (r2 = .08). The second analysis included decision-making as a predictor (r2 = .35) but did not find it to be moderator. The third analysis used opportunities …
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Cheias: análise de frequências e regionalização de quantis
… and some split-record testing have been used. A multiple-regression model and the Wakeby distribution have been also used to regionalize the quantiles for some return periods, to establish a flood frequency curve at sites where no streamflow observations have been taken and to improve the …
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Topics in Bayesian sample size determination and Bayesian model selection.
… is about Bayesian variable selection under the multiple regression model. Two competing Bayesian methods are Bayesian model averaging and reversible jump MCMC. It is found that reversible jump MCMC, expected to give better models, does not seem to differ from Bayesian model averaging in examples …
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Characteristics and outcome of long-stay patients in a paediatric intensive care unit in Cape Town, South Africa
… in this setting was established using various models. The characteristics and outcomes of the long- and short- stay groups were compared using nonparametric Mann-Whitney U and Chi2 tests, with significant results entered into a stepwise multiple regression model. The proportion of ICU days …
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Relationship of Discrimination and Early Life Socioeconomics on Health Outcomes in Healthy Young African American Women
… Data were initially analyzed descriptively. Multiple bivariate regressions were performed for testing of hypotheses 1-7, and a multiple regression model was utilized for hypothesis 8. Results showed a significant relationship between gender discrimination and psychological distress. A …
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Non-Invasive Detection of Anaerobic Metabolism in Exercising Muscle Using Proton MRI
… developed between these variables and T 2,I. A multiple regression model shows that 62% of the variance in the T2,I change of exercise is accounted for by these two variables.
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Determinants of Agri-Lending Among Financial Institutions in Kenya
… 6 years (2011-2016) was used after which a panel multiple regression model was estimated using random-effects to examine the significant determinants of agri-lending by financial institutions. The study found that financial institution equity and risk on credit were negative and statistically …
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A comparison of yield estimation techniques for old-field loblolly pine plantations
… age, are presented. These methods include a multiple regression model for estimating stand yield directly from stand variables, and indirect approaches for first approximating the frequency distribution of tree diameters, and then estimating stand yield from individual tree volume equations …
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