6 statistical methods to correct and adjust publication bias

... both methods by analyzing nycthemeral rhythms of offenses against the person causing bodily harm and in the conclusion limitations, modifications and alternatives to our methods are discussed Methods ... of vectors forming an orthonormal basis and change basis Statistical methods are applied to search for single coordinates of the data (relative to the new basis) that are “large” compared to the ... associated with the hormones testosteron and serotonin Both of them show a nycthemeral rhythm [7,8] and are linked to violent behavior [46,47] The different rhythm on Friday and Saturday could be Stroebel...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... equity indices Furthermore, Long Bias and Short Bias strategies present significant dependences with high yield and volatility index In opposition to Long Bias, Short Bias strategy is being negatively ... vector we especially focus our attention on the parameters βi,t and their standard errors se(βi,t) for i = to and t = to 72 The Kalman filter is a recursive algorithm that starts at time 1, and ... three major stock indices: the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the Standard&Poors 500 (S&P500), and the Deutsche Aktienindex (DAX) The data are collected daily and added to the historical daily...

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... this study is to compare five different cooling techniques during induction and maintaining of mild hypo- and normothermia in terms of efficiency and cooling performance Materials and methods Study ... monitored and treated according to international standards All patients were intubated and mechanically ventilated If necessary, patients were sedated using midazolam and/ or propofol to a Ramsay ... placed on the patient's back, abdomen, and both thighs Depending on the size used, the total surface area ranges between 0.60 and 0.77 m2 It is connected to an automatic thermostat controlling the...

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... immunohistochemistry and RNA and protein isolation Since these diverse intentions require different fixation and storage methods, clinicians and researchers are often faced with a multitude of different vials, and ... (Trizol and RNAeasy), and three different fixation protocols for histological studies (10% formalin, RNAlater, Boonfix) were compared Histological evaluation was based on hematoxylin-eosin (HE) and ... too high or central staining appeared very poor In search for an easy -to- use method to acquire, fix and store canine liver biopsies, we used the stability of 18S and 28S rRNA as markers for totalRNA...

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... requires a sound and up to date understanding of the science behind the investigation Data analysis requires clear objectives and hypotheses to investigate These have to be based on, and push forward, ... study area is subdivided into different strata, such as the three types of landuses of the example (Landuse 1, Landuse and Landuse 3, figures 1.1-1.9) Strata not overlap and cover the entire survey ... (25/687.5), landuse occupies 63.6% (437.5/687.5) and landuse occupies 32.7% (225/687.5) A possible proportional sampling scheme would therefore be to sample plots in Landuse 1, 64 plots in Landuse and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/06/2016, 10:15

... vessels A and B each containing ideal classical gas of particles having no internal degrees of freedom The pressure and number of particles in both vessels are p and N respectively, and the temperature ... Using V p = N and Eq (2.185) one nds cp = cV + Eyal Buks NN = cV + N V p Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics (2.188) 81 Chapter Ideal Gas Using Eqs (1.87), (1.70) and (1.71), and noting that ... In thermal equilibrium the total chemical potential àtot = àg + mgz , (2.209) (m is the mass of the each diatomic molecule N2 , g is the gravity acceleration constant, and z is the height) is z...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 15:21

... undesirable to adjust and sample the process often due to respective costs To accommodate cost parameters into feedback adjustment, bounded feedback adjustment is proposed In bounded feedback adjustment ... delay: Unadjusted and bounded adjusted process Figure 3.8 EPC with measurement delay: Bounded and unbounded process adjustment Figure 4.1 Effect of signal run and adjustment cost on adjustment ... and Luceño (1997)) The suitability of process adjustment for a process also depends on adjustment cost, adjustment errors and measurement errors (Hunter (1994)) When adjustment costs and/ or adjustment...

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... the cities began to grow and mature, many people left the inner-city areas and moved to the surrounding suburbs The decline in demand for inner-city areas led to lower rents and, ultimately, ... position to wait for the twelfth month to sell An effective method many investors use to defer taxes on capital gains for years and years is referred to as a 1031 exchange The IRS allows buyers and ... deterioration was aesthetic and was therefore not that costly to bring back into good condition Class C apartments are those that range in age from 20 to 30 years and in price from $10,000 to $30,000 per...

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... aujourd’hui e de autre etudes ´ Judgment correct correct correct almost correct incorrect incorrect incorrect incorrect Table 3: Examples of TMEM entries with correctness judgments x v v   n l mk ... Christoph Tillmann, and Herman Ney 1999 Improved alignment models for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of the EMNLP and VLC, pages 20–28, University of Maryland, Maryland S Sato 1992 ... conservative, we decided nevertheless to stick to it as it adequately reflects constraints specific to high-standard translation environments in which TMEMs are built manually and constantly checked for quality...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... should stop increasing MIEC, and we should keep it stable, ceteris paribus To expand the share of the services GE had to transform its assets form buildings, machinery and equipment into well ... referring to the people that in some part of their lives wanted to invest their accumulated wealth and decided to buy shares of GE In order to see if the investors are satisfied in choosing our stock, ... going to introduce I am making an attempt to help eliminating any kind of mistrust to the company due to reasons which are not related to the financial statements and have a direct connection to...

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... important work to You will need to monitor the following: • Is your team staying on-message and true to the goals of the project? • Is your social media team too small to execute these goals? Too big? ... stay on-message and true to the goals of the project? • Is it time to make changes to your team roster? • Should (and could) you expand your listening and content creation strategies to include new ... best way to integrate.” - Jessica Frank, Digital and New Media Strategist, Antler Agency Your team’s goal should be to stay abreast of what users are saying about your brand, and to begin to look...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 14:22

... buried in the ground using the combination of GPR and MRI methods Methods and equipments At present, due to wide applicability of GPR and MRI methods, many modern equipments are made by different ... foundation layer at the depth of 1m and the old road are shown rather clearly through stone jetties on both sides and continued to extend from Doan Mon gate to Kinh Thien Temple The foundation ... selecting relevant types of antenna with respect to the GPR method and combine in the best way two GPR and MRI methods, the preliminary results are good and promising As far as the GPR method is concerned,...

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... one -to- one, many -to- one and one -to- many functions in Figure 1.2 one -to- one domain many -to- one range domain one -to- many range domain range Figure 1.2: Diagrams of One -To- One, Many -To- One and One -To- Many ... laws 23 Zero and Unit Vectors The additive identity element for vectors is the zero vector or null vector This is a vector of magnitude zero which is denoted as A unit vector is a vector of magnitude ... the factors only vanish at x = −2, 1, π, p(x) only vanishes there Since factors are nonnegative, the polynomial is non-negative 21 Chapter Vectors 2.1 2.1.1 Vectors Scalars and Vectors A vector...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:19

... Introduction and a Word of Warning MATLAB is an incredibly powerful tool, but in order to use it safely you need to be able to understand how it works and to be very precise when you enter commands Changing ... your working directory to Matlab Files and the third command invokes MATLAB (to check that you are in the correct directory use the command pwd to ‘print working directory’) In a Windows environment ... commands xlabel and ylabel add labels to the horizontal and vertical axes and the command title, not surprisingly adds the title to the figure The command text allows the user to add text to the figure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 09:57

... book is acid-free and falls within the guidelines established to ensure permanence and durability Methods to assess quality and stability of oils and fat-containing foods/editors, Kathleen Warner, ... Chapter Historical Glimpses of Analytical and Quality Assessment Methods for Fats and Oils H.J Dutton Factors Affecting Oil Quality and Stability T.H Smouse Sensory Analyses of Oils and Fat-Containing ... and dirty” monitor At this period of time, we had a refractometer to measure the refractive index of oil (7) I am not totally sure why we had a refractometer in an oil lab Color tubes and standards...

Ngày tải lên: 23/05/2014, 12:34

... comprehensive exposure history a Work- and exposure history The only way to identify the possible causes of a given case of cancer is to identify and to (semi)quantify workand environmental exposure ... e.g a few mesotheliomas and nickel-related cancers, were notified to the labor inspectorate prior to the 1970’s Without the legislative support to make report filing obligatory, lawsuit could hypothetically ... drafted to - with permission from the Data inspectorate - be sent from the Cancer Registry to patients with certain cancer diagnoses, known frequently to be work-related To select case subjects to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... PART Common discussion on need and methods to improve quality and reduce losses in rice production in Mekong River Delta (MRD) Need and methods to improve quality and reduce losses in rice production ... Dr Hoang Bac Quoc Need and methods to improve quality and reduce losses in rice production in Soc Trang Province Tran Thi Phung Nga Need and methods to improve quality and reduce losses in rice ... (cutting, threshing), drying to milling Experiments and investigations will be conducted in the field in order to evaluate the kernel cracking and losses due to harvesting methods The experiments...

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