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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"statistical method"”.
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A Statistical Method for Syntactic Dialectometry
… establishes the utility and reliability of a statistical distance measure for syntactic dialectometry, expanding dialectometry's methods to include syntax as well as phonology and the lexicon. It establishes the measure's reliability by comparing its results to those of dialectology and …
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Development of a statistical method for validating ESDM strain-field output
This thesis addresses the problem of developing a statistical method for validating the ESDM strain-field output. Specifically, it addresses the problems of estimating the ESDM strain-field uncertainty, choosing an appropriate standard measurement, estimating the uncertainty in the standard …
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Improving the Capability of Preliminary Aircraft Design Methodology by Incorporating Numerical Methods into Segments of a Proven Statistical Method
… identify any potential limitations of Roskam’s statistical aircraft flight performance estimation method, and to provide processes capable of improving those limitations. This project was conducted in collaboration with Diamond Aircraft Industries, and as any other general aviation manufacturer …
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Effects of Aerosol on Cloud Water Path: Statistical Method a Potential Source for Divergence in Observation-based Correlative Studies
… to specific physical mechanisms. We explore a methodology to assess the correlation between cloud water path (CWP) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) using MODIS Aqua retrieved aerosol and cloud properties for regions dominated by different types of aerosol: Non Absorbing Aerosol Dominated Region …
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Development of a Novel Statistical Method and Procedure for Material Characterization and a Probabilistic Approach to Assessing the Hygrothermal Performance of Building Enclosure Assemblies
… quality and comprehensive material database. The method was applied to a great number of materials in different material categories. The database provides a solid base for hygrothermal simulation and further research.</p> <p>A method was developed to derive the generic material from the material …
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Recognition of ambiguous pairs of totally unconstrained handwritten numerals
… between two or more classes. Two recognition methods, structural method and statistical method, are used to overcome the limitations of a single method and deliver a much more reliable recognition system. The recognition rate is 71.32% using structural method without verification. The …
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The impact of measurement scale on classification performance of inductive learning and statistical approaches
… is a comparative study of inductive learning and statistical methods. The focus of this study is to investigate the impact of measurement scale of explanatory variables on the relative performance of the statistical method (probit) and the inductive learning method (ID3). In addition, the impact …
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Using Saddlepoint Approximations and Likelihood-Based Methods to Conduct Statistical Inference for the Mean of the Beta Distribution
<p>The prevalence of conducting statistical inference for the mean of the beta distribution has been rising in various fields of academic research, such as in immunology that analyzes proportions of rare cell population subsets. For our purposes, we will address this statistical inference problem …
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AFTER-HOURS MOBILE TECHNOLOGY USE AND ITS EFFECT ON BURNOUT EXPERIENCED BY STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS
… data in this study were explored by the statistical method of multiple regression. While the number of responses was not high enough to determine statistically significant differences, the data did not show a strong correlation between after-hours mobile technology use and workplace …
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A classic statistical model developed towards predicting financial distress
… a distress prediction model using a classic statistical method and financial ratios, calculated on published company data of organisations listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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An investigation of the cognitive foundation underlying the rule-space model
… of this study is to combine the theories and methods in cognitive psychology with the practices in psychometrics to investigate the cognitive foundations underlying K. Tatsuoka's rule-space model. Rule space is a statistical method for classifying students' test item responses into a set of …
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Direct determination of stiffness factor and carry-over factor for parabolic haunched beams
… for parabolic haunched beams. the conventional methods require long and tedious calculations, so the development of these equations, which require only the direct substitution of the variables, is useful. A digital computer was used to generate the data required to develop these general …
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The Effects of Male-Based Anthropometric Cockpit Designs on Self-Reported Female Aircrew Accommodation
… accommodation. A descriptive survey research method was used to collect the required data. The instrument utilized was a self-developed questionnaire/opinionnaire. It contained both Likert-type and open-ended questions. The 153 subjects were selected from the population of active, civil, …
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On Compositional Data Modeling and Its Biomedical Applications
… of a combined medical measurement. The statistical method to analyze this type of data is underdeveloped. Currently the multivariate logitnormal model seems to be the only model routinely used in analyzing compositional data, and its application is mainly in geology and has yet to be …
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Detection of non-coding RNA with comparative genomics and the sequential closure of smooth graphs in Cartesian currents
… a rapid and highly reliable comparative statistical method for identification of functionally significant base pairs in ncRNA genes in multiple sequence alignments of cross-species homologs, a divide-and-conquer approach to optimal assembly of exon predictions with O(n log n) …
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Educating for Change: How Leadership Education and Training Affect Student Activism in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Undergraduates
… and multiple regression was the chosen statistical method. The model established for this study explained 51.3% of the observed variance in student activism with demographic variables, pre-college experiences, organizational participation, and leadership education and training …
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Statistical Considerations in Designing for Biomarker Detection
The purpose of this project is to develop a statistical method for use in rapid detection of biological agents using portable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) devices. Of particular interest is 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (dipicolinic acid, or DPA), a molecule that is present at high …
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Monte Carlo validation of two genetic clustering algorithms
Cluster analysis refers to a type of statistical method designed to identify homogeneous groups within complex, multivariate data sets. In this study two newly developed genetic cluster analysis algorithms, GENCLUS and GENCLUS+, were validated by comparing their performance against that of three …
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Identification and Distribution Analysis of the Mid-phase in a Low-velocity Gas-solid Fluidized Bed
… the literature. Therefore, this study proposed a statistical method to identify this intermediate phase, named ‘mid-phase’ in this thesis, to interpret the system performance based on the analysis of solids holdup in a low-velocity gas-solid fluidized bed. The distributions of the mid-phase are …
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