Empirical likelihood for unit level models in small area estimation

... unit level models in small area estimation Our methods combine Bayesian analysis and empirical likelihood In most cases, current methodologies in small area estimation either use parametric likelihood ... available at unit level within each small area In this section, we expand our semiparametric Bayesian empirical likelihood method in unit lev...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:13

... experts in all of the subdomains of the papers they annotated The annotators went through a substantial amount of training, including the reading of coding instructions for the two versions of the scheme ... Pedersen, and Francine Chen 1995 A trainable document summarizer In Pro- ceedings of the 18th ACM-SIGIR Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group I...

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... Furthermore, the stochastic approach intrinsically takes account of the reduction in selection intensity as compared with the theory, of the relationships between mates and inbreeding induced in the offspring ... selection intensity As expected [4], the higher the selection intensity, the greater the influence of the population size, and the higher the decre...

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... the second floor - Practice in the class - Listen and copy Week English mạc thị sửu năm học; 2008 2009 Teaching: 18 10 08-6a,c,d Period 23 Unit Big or small Lesson c Getting ready for school (1-3) ... check - Work in groups - Practice in the class S1: S2: S3: S4: S5: - Listen and copy Week Period 24 48 English mạc thị sửu năm học; 2008 2009 Unit Big or small Lesson c Ge...

Ngày tải lên: 25/06/2013, 01:27

... that the sentence-level variables, y s , in effect form a bottleneck between the document sentiment and the input sentences McDonald, 2008; Lin and He, 2009), structured conditional models can ... available, the document variable, y d , should be independent of the input, s, conditioned on the latent variables, y s This prohibits the model from bypassing the latent variables, which...

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... fog Smog can be of two types - industrial or winter smog (e.g London smog) and photochemical or summer smog (e.g Los Angeles smog) The industrial revolution has been the main cause for the increase ... - one of the building blocks of ground-level ozone - plays a major role in formation of acid rains Ozone episode in Hanoi City The rapid urbanization and ind...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... development by the project manager through ecollaboration Project management process All projects have a beginning and an ending, and project management has corresponding initiating and closing ... facilitate the progression to reduce time and cost in developing new products in SMEs To understand the importance of coordinating these sections with the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... 5¢-CGTCGTCGAAATTCTCCTTGTACGTGTCC-3¢ 5¢-CACGTACAAAGAGAACGTCGACGACG-3¢ 5¢-CGTCGTCGACGTTCTCTTTGTACGTG-3¢ 5¢-GAGAATTTCGAGCACGATACAGACTCCC-3¢ 5¢-GGGAGTCTGTATCGTGCTCGAAATTCTC-3¢ 5¢-CGACGACGAGACAGACTCCCAGAACATGTC-3¢ 5¢-GACATGTTCTGGGAGTCTGTCTCGTCGTCG-3¢ ... investigated by site-directed mutagenesis of a- crystallin domain residues and molecular modeling of protein structure The p26 a...

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... evaluations of abstinence-only programs should provide more information on the effectiveness of these programs in the future Those sexuality education and HIV education programs that did show positive ... development (including activities such as educational mentoring, employment, sports, and performing arts) with a section on sexuality education can have a strong impact on rep...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... alignments for MK–EN and EN–BG, from which we extracted four conditional lexical translation probabilities: Pr(m|e) and Pr(e|m) for MK–EN, and Pr(b|e) and Pr(e|b) for EN–BG, where m, e, and b stand for ... of characterand word-level translation models for translating between closely-related languages with scarce resources In future work, we want to use such a m...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... for concatenative speech synthesis In Proceedings of Eurospeech, volume 2, pages 607–610 Ivan Bulyko and Mari Ostendorf 2001 Unit selection for speech synthesis using splicing costs with weighted ... with input label a and output b For the purpose of our unit selection system, we had to resort to an approximation This is because in general, the backoff use just outlined...

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... Exploring Challenges, Progress, and New Models for ENGAGING THE PUBLIC in the CLINICAL RESEARCH ENTERPRISE Clinical Research Roundtable Workshop Summary Based on a Workshop of the Clinical Research ... Contents Foreword ix Workshop Summary 1 Priorities for Engaging the Public in the Clinical Research Enterprise Workshop I...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... determine students’ ESP Development of students’ English for Special Purposes competence in tourism studies at tertiary level Dr Ineta Luka, School of Business Administration Turiba, Latvia 13 competence ... stage of the research to create the model for the development of students’ ESP competence Development of students’ English for Sp...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... and reading time in sentence processing In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 14, pages 59–65 Nederhof, M.-J and Satta, G (2003) Probabilistic parsing as intersection In ... uncertain input In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 234–243 Levy, R and Andrew, G (2006) Tregex and Tsurgeon: too...

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