Overdispersion, bias and efficiency in teratology data analysis

... 1.1: Data structure of teratology studies efficient statistical models are used (Williams and Ryan, 1996) In addition, the analysis of the teratology data combining multivariate and clustered data ... fetal deaths — in this thesis We now introduce several teratology data sets, which will be used in the thesis, to give an intuitional understanding of teratology dat...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 12:39

... How children and adolescents use home computers and the Internet? Where children and adolescents use computers? Where they use the Internet? How many users use the Internet in only one place, and ... and family income Computer and Internet use by children and adolescents is widespread and begins at an early age About nine in ten Americans ag...

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... technical efficiency in cocoa production is globally low, and technology gap plays an important part in explaining the ability of cocoa sector in one country to compete with cocoa sectors in other ... Gap and Efficiency in Cocoa Production in West and Central Africa: Implications for Cocoa Sector Development (1) Guy Blaise Nkamleu, Joach...

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... performance of economic and business students The following section summarizes the findings of some of the previous research in economics and other business disciplines The review focuses mainly on ... create an instrument capable of measuring the general business core knowledge of business students The test includes questions in each of the followi...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:08

... nonparametric tests However, the gain in power relative to both versions of the Cram´ r-von Mises test is quite e small 3.3 Analysis of biological data For the purposes of this study, we used the publicly ... literature The bulk of theoretical work in this field has been focused on the Cram´ r-von Mises e goodness -of- fit test [22, 23] The two-sample Cra...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... Development of crown ratio (cr) of thinned and unthinned Norway spruce and Silver fir up to 10 years since thinning With the exception of thinned Silver fir all trees are declining in crown ratio, ... Note: Silver fir whorls are in the upper part (stands 1–3 and 5), Norway spruce whorls in the lower part (stands and 6–9 ) of the table *l: Loca...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... study and the interpretation of data, and helped to draft the manuscript MAD performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript IG-A participated in the design of the study and ... effect of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate on the disease activity score, the use of this score represents a handicap for the evaluation of the eff...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... CHAPTER 11 Probabilistic Approaches to ECG Segmentation and Feature Extraction 2 91 11. 1 11 .2 11 .3 11 .4 11 .5 11 .6 11 .7 11 .8 Introduction The Electrocardiogram 11 .2 .1 The ECG Waveform 11 .2.2 ECG Interval ... References 10 6 10 8 10 9 11 0 11 1 11 3 11 4 11 5 11 6 11 7 12 6 12 7 CHAPTER Linear Filtering Methods 13 5 5 .1 Introduction 5.2 Wiener Fil...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... Through 22 2 Omitted) Record Nn Vn Fn On Nv Vv Fv Ov No Vo Fo Q Se Q+P 100 101 103 105 106 108 22 3 22 8 23 0 23 1 23 2 23 3 23 4 Sum Gross Average 1901 1 521 1 725 21 17 123 6 1461 1736 122 5 1858 127 8 ... Chest, Vol 124 , No 6, 20 03, pp 20 57 20 63 P1: Shashi August 24 , 20 06 11:36 Chan-Horizon 2. 6 Summary [11] [ 12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20 ] [21 ] [22 ] [2...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... 24, 2006 11 :39 94 Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book ECG Statistics, Noise, Artifacts, and Missing Data [20] [21] [22] [ 23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30 ] [31 ] [32 ] [33 ] [34 ] [35 ] [36 ] [37 ] Malik, M., ... Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book 3. 7 Heart Rate Variability 71 Figure 3. 8 Zero-mean unit-variance clean ECG with additive brown, pink, and white noise (also zero-mean and unit-va...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... [32] [33] [ 34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40 ] [41 ] [42 ] [43 ] [44 ] [45 ] [46 ] [47 ] [48 ] [49 ] [50] [51] Azuaje˙Book 129 Mateo, J., and P Laguna, “Improved Heart Rate Variability Signal Analysis from ... http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/ecgsyn/ P1: Shashi August 24, 2006 11 :42 Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book 4. 3 ECG Models Figure 4. 5 119 Spectral characteristics of (4. 9), the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... Azuaje˙Book 147 Figure 5. 6 Raw ECG with 50 Hz mains noise, IIR 50 -Hz notch filtered ECG, 0. 1- to 4 5- Hz bandpass filtered ECG and bior3.3 wavelet filtered ECG The left-most arrow indicates the low ... where s > α i=1 si and α is some fraction ≈ 0. 95 i=1 i P1: Shashi August 30, 2006 11 :5 Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book 150 Linear Filtering Methods Figure 5. 7 SVD of 20 R-p...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... 20 06 11: 46 1 96 Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book Nonlinear Filtering Techniques [45] [ 46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [ 56] [57] [58] [59] [60 ] [61 ] [62 ] [63 ] [64 ] [65 ] Lehnertz, K., and ... 20 06 11: 46 Chan-Horizon 6. 5 Model-Based Filtering Azuaje˙Book 187 Figure 6. 6 Demonstration of ICA noise reduction for γ = 10: (a) original noise-free ECG signal, x(t); (...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... r ( N) [%] [%] [%] 74 77 47 54 27 37 10 14 27 13 21 14 ⇑ 19 14 18 14 16 12 ST Segment Patterns, Human Annotator: r c ( N) r n ( N) r ( N) [%] [%] [%] 74 74 47 48 27 29 14 21 7 15 ⇑ 12 11 10 coefficients ... feature-vector time series in long-term ECGs for the purpose of ST segment analysis may involve following phases: Preprocessing; Derivation of time-domain and OFM transfo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:20

... [ 18] , Neural net, KLT [g] [a] [g] [a] [g] [a] [g] [a] [g] [a] [g] [a] [g] [a] ESC DB S E [%] Se +P 81 76 84 81 – – 84 .7 86 .1 79.2 81 .4 81 .5 82 .5 85 .2 86 .2 87 .1 87 .7 77.2 86 .3 81 .3 89 .2 85 .0 68. 7 ... Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book 284 ST Analysis The open-source tool EVAL ST [45] provides first (record-by-record) and secondorder (aggregate gross and average) per...

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