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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"statistical tool"”.
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Biometric Classification with Factor Analysis
… using Factor Analysis (FA). As a multivariate statistical tool, factor analysis is useful for understanding the underlying structure in a dataset. Moreover, in addition to achieving an economy of the variables, the
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Scale-adaptive analysis of active transport
… as the metric and universal thresholding as the statistical tool to separate motor-driven active motion and passive Brownian diffusion in intracellular active transport is developed. It is validated by comparison with three existing methods, as well as by manual inspection. The method makes no …
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Using Altman's Z-Score to assess the appropiateness of management's use of the going assumption in the preparation of financial statements
… done in other countries, the Z-Score is a statistical tool that has been proven to aid auditors' going concern decisions. The objective of this paper is to ascertain whether Altman’s Z-Score can aid South African auditors to more accurately assess the appropriateness of management’s use of …
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How can I improve my life-affirming, need-fulfilling, and performance enhancing capacity to understand and model the meaning of educational quality?
… quality in American public high school as a statistical tool of ranking, separating students, and compliance. I sought through co-investigation with beneficiaries and stakeholders of public high school a life-affirming, need-fulfilling and performance-enhancing meaning of quality to challenge …
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CAUSAL INFERENCE METHODS FOR ELECTRICAL CONSUMPTION’S ESTIMATION
… into the realm of causal inference, a crucial statistical tool for understanding the impacts of interventions in situations where controlled experiments are not feasible. It particularly addresses the challenge of evaluating the real effect of thermal renovations on electric consumption while …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated -Approach EAP Placement Test Using Multi -Group Structural Equation Modeling
… equation modeling (MSEM) as the central statistical tool. A review of the statistical methodology of the MTMM procedures as a methodological contribution in literature preceded an investigation of the construct validity of the EPT. This powerful modeling technique enabled me to …
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Problems related to efficacy measurement and analyses
… that has not been well utilized as an applied statistical tool, mainly due to its computational complexity. The current study shows that this method is robust even under correlation structures that arise during the computation of all possible differences. The kernel methods can be applied to …
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Driver Safety and Emissions at Different PPLT Indications
… Data is analyzed using Microsoft Excel, JMP Statistical tool and MATLAB. Safety of drivers is analyzed with respect to the parameter "Time to Collision (TTC)" which is directly obtained from simulator data. Vehicular emissions and fuel consumption are calculated using VT-Micro microscopic …
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Some Advances in Local Approximate Gaussian Processes
… (GP) has been recognized as an indispensable statistical tool in computer experiments. Due to its computational complexity and storage demand, its application in real-world problems, especially in "big data" settings, is quite limited. Among many strategies to tailor GP to such settings, …
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Action Research in the Military: Experiences, Outcomes and Learning
… set out overall to collaboratively develop a statistical tool aimed at improving decision-making processes within Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) for the deployment of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) on conflict prevention missions. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of conflict …
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Causes of stress among teachers: a study of selected public and private schools in Lusaka, Zambia.
… Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical tool, Excel soft, while thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. The findings of the study showed that there quiet several causes of stress among teachers. The most prominent causes, however, included: the large …
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Causes of stress among teachers: a study of selected public and private schools in Lusaka, Zambia.
… Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical tool, Excel soft, while thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data. The findings of the study showed that there quiet several causes of stress among teachers. The most prominent causes, however, included: the large …
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A study of factors affecting the occurrence of down syndrome in Negeri Sembilan Malaysia
… Regression analysis having become a standard statistical tool for analysis, probit model, linear probability model and multiple logistic model were used for analysing DS data against genetic and socio-demographic variables while simple logit and probit models were used to analyze DS data …
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Vāstu-śāstra for Christian spiritual well-being in St Thomas ancient church architecture of the Malabar Coast (southwest India)
… a qualitative and quantitative approach with a statistical questionnaire, ‘SHALOM SWBQ,’ to assess spiritual well-being. The findings reveal that Vāstu architecture is compatible with Christianity and facilitates Christian spiritual well-being. It was applied to the selected churches, providing …
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Retention Of The Newly Licensed Registered Nursing Workforce Post-Coronavirus (covid-19): Establishing A Trauma-Informed Wellness Program, The Registered Nurse Residency Script For The Future (rnrx) (© Maryellen Hope Kosturko, 2022)
… one-tailed unpaired t test on the R foundation Statistical tool. The results show a statistically significant improvement in the overall well-being of all NLRN participants immediately after RNRx program completion (p= 0.004). The RNRx program can be easily and cost-effectively scaled across …
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Graphical tools for the examination of high-dimensional functions obtained as the result of Bayesian analysis
… This is shown to provide a powerful and flexible statistical tool without the need for the ad hoc choices often associated with these methods. This formulation of the KDE as a Bayesian problem is believed to be unique. As part of this work, software was produced in R to provide a usable …
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Analysis of temporal and spatial changes in major dissolved salts in the Vaal River system over a 40 year period
… in the study catchment area was analysed. The statistical tool applied for the data analysis is the Maucha diagram, as well as the Origin software used in plotting graphs. These graphs revealed several trends and patterns. The graphs and the Maucha diagrams reflected long-time changes in salts …
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Singular Perturbations on Non-Smooth Boundary Problems in Finance
… Stochastic volatility models are introduced. A statistical tool, variogram analysis, is used to justify time-scale factors in mean reverting stochastic volatility models. The effect of jumps in addition to diffusion models is also analyzed. A brief review is presented to the application of …
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Development of a Bayesian linear regression model for the detection of a weak radiological source from gamma spectra measurements
The detection of radiation requires the use of statistical tools due to the probabilistic nature of the emission and the interaction properties of radiation. Frequentist statistical methods are traditionally employed towards this end – the most common being the "traditional" method which calculates …
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B Cell Signaling and Bioinformatics: Revealing Components of the MHC Class II Antigen Processing and Presentation Pathway
… prompted the development of a bioinformatics tool termed CLASSIFI (Cluster Assignment for Biological Inference), which identifies statistically significant co-clustering of genes with similar Gene Ontology annotation within microarray gene clusters. CLASSIFI was used to analyze microarray …
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