Empirical Bayes Nonparametric Density Estimation Of Crop Yield Densities: Rating Crop Insurance Contracts

... differences in yield levels can be observed Validation of total yield curves The comparative evolution of curves and curves total yield of recorded yield is presented in figure The growth series ... comparison of the evolution of yield since establishment as a function of dominant height reveals the importance of variability in total yield For a single yield...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... this paper, we have suggested a new iterative soft bit error rate estimation for the study of any digital communication system performance This method is based on the use of nonparametric pdf estimation ... consider any point to point system communication over any channel transmission (Gaussian, multipath fading, etc.) with or without channel coding using...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... provides estimates of the components of the dispersion structure and predictors of linear combination of which can be viewed as of the empirical Bayes type We consider the situation of n jointly SCHELE ... time In fact, for [1B , values of E2 of the order of 10- the number of iterations required for g can be reduced , considerably In this study, we opted to calculate...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... representative of the banks found in the majority of distribution feeders POWER SYSTEM DAMPING ESTIMATION The estimation of the system damping quantified in terms of the X/R ratio and the damping ratio ... the method is not computationally intensive METHOD VALIDATION USING IEEE TEST MODEL This section demonstrates the application of the damping es...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... study scavenging activity of phenolic compounds based on quantitative structure activity/ property relationships The stability of phenolxyl radicals can be predicted through calculating the spin density ... with the Highest Spin Density – HSD at every atom of radical is small At the doublet state, sum of spin densities is One of the ways to measure spin densi...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 06:20

... non-random selection on the parents (using phenotypic records or BLUP of breeding values) on the sampling properties of EBLUP and Bayesian estimates of breeding values assuming models with or without effects ... Bayesian and EBLUP estimation regarding the overall rank correlation of breeding values and of estimable contrasts of CG effects with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... Yap et al.: Functional mapping of reaction norms to multiple environmental signals through nonparametric covariance estimation BMC Plant Biology 2011 11:23 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed ... genetic mapping are discussed From hereon, the terms covariance matrix, covariance structure or covariance function are used interchangeably Functional Mapping...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... standard benchmarks for Affymetrix SNP chip analysis is analogous to that already done for the sister technology of Affymetrix expression arrays, the so-called Affycomp [29] Materials and methods ... between the center of region AA and AB and the center of AB and BB Finally, we noted that accuracy is slightly different for homozygous and heterozygous genotypes Hete...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF COPULAS CAO JIANFEI (B.Sc Nankai University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND APPLIED ... Elliptical copulas are the functions of elliptical distributed random vectors, such as Gaussian copulas and t -copulas The marginal distributions of elliptical copulas are elliptical and of the same...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 23:08

... involved gathering the data for use in training and testing the neural network A large training data reduces the risk of under-sampling the nonlinear function, but increases the training time ... learn the database, and to predict the properties of consolidation SELECTION OF STRAIN RATE r= V − Vmin Vmax − Vmin Data Collection Data Normalization Parametric Studies...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... center The New Town includes three components: Bac Linh Dam (North of Linh Dam) , Linh Dam peninsula in the middle and Linh Dam expansion (South of Linh Dam) The success of the project has set the ... south-west of Linh Dam lake with higher density of construction 665 Linh Dam new town - Solution for the High-density devel...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 08:15

... nặng nhọc với mức thu nhập thấp, kéo theo điều kiện sống mức tối thiểu, tạm bợ khu nhà trọ rẻ tiền với điều kiện sinh hoạt an ninh không đảm bảo Đời sống tinh thần lao động hạn chế Họ thấy cô ... có xu hướng linh hoạt phụ thuộc nhiều vào mặt hàng họ bán “độ đắt hàng” Trung bình họ làm việc 13,09 giờ/ngày lúc bắt đầu công việc từ 2h30 - 3h00 sáng mặt hàng họ bán rau, hoa, quả… - 7h s...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 08:15

... Specific discharge is defined as the ratio of runoff loadings to the area of a river basin, and runoff ratio is defined as the ratio of specific discharge to precipitation amount Runoff loadings ... PAHs, the yearly PAHs loadings were estimated using the meteorological data of 2006 The meteorological data was obtained from the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the da...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... SoDa measured hourly solar radiation for the year of 2005 for Basra city Conclusion In this work a simple model was employed to estimate hourly global solar radiation for clear sky in Iraq Calculations ... employed for clear sky conditions in Iraq Considering that the model is only depended on the air mass and solar elevation, it would be of practical use...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:59

... Limited, 1980 [17] Joshi M., Sawhney R.L., Buddhi D Estimation of luminous efficacy of daylight and exterior illuminance for composite climate of Indore city in Mid Western India Renewable Energy, ... diffuse illuminance for horizontal and four vertical surfaces in January Average global and diffuse illuminance For determination of maximum illuminance leve...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10