estimating the parameters of the dlm

... improves the fitting of the distribution because more information is used than in the MOM CONCLUSION In this study, the good results of the MOM in terms of the number of times for the lowest values of ... plantations based on the MSE and the conclusion supports the results of Zarnoch and Dell (1985) The LSM has consistently been found to be superior for estimating the parameters of Sb distribution ... fitting the Weibull distribution and comparing their performances with the MLE and MOM The objective of this research is to assess and compare the accuracy of the above three estimators of two-parameter...

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... and assigned them the task of survey to estimate the burden of disease in the estimating the burden of TB in the country4 The country the country, updating the technique followed heretofore, by ... elicitation' as the initial screening tool, instead of Xrays12 In more recent times, Chakraborty et al found that the estimates of prevalence of disease made by the use of either of the screening ... prevalence of bacteriological and radiological cases5, This, in the first place, was in recognition of the limitation of the yield of bacteriological cases by the investigation of only two samples of...

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... Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and the World Bank Implementation of School-Based Management in Indonesia In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to support implementation of ... Development; the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands In spite of this high level of support and attention, little is known about the status of implementation ... when they did, they typically sought the approval of their district supervisor or other appropriate district staff One indicator of the reluctance of schools to make independent decisions was the...

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... from the actual winner to the alleged winner, then a margin of victory of a fraction v of the votes cast by the alleged winner must have involved at least a fraction v/(2 ∗ 0.20) = 2.5v of the ... note we call f the “fraud rate.” Given one of b or f , the other is determined, via equation (2) In a voting context, the value of b might be the requisite number of precincts that the adversary ... most of the sand grains are white, but a fraction f of the grains are black, you may only need to sample a handful of the sand to be confident of obtaining a black grain, no matter whether the...

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... explore the feature of economy of scale, the expression of design ¯ow-rate with exponent is needed in the model The value indicates economy of scale if the exponent is 393 less than in these average ... over the others except for the case of analyzing tertiary wastewater treatment plants Although the LS method always has better performance in terms of the index of `sum of squared residual', the ... estimation On the other hand, the impact of three outliers included in the database of industrial wastewater treatment plants could be in¯uential in the cost estimation when using the LS model The modi®ed...

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... language The third group had the Russian language capability but no expertise in the substance And the fourth group had neither knowledge of the Russian language nor of the discipline of the test ... appears to be in the immediate offing—and an ultimate input rate of 100 words per second The Parameters of Translation As mentioned above there are some who will argue the value of the special purpose ... permit the storage of only the stem form of words with the computer carrying out the necessary logical analysis to identify the morphology and the function of a word in a sentence For the time...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... settings) These and other features of the speech of the New Yorkers sometimes struck the Californians present as imposing, hence failing to honor their need for independence The use of contrasting ... service of one or the other of these needs in various ways The paralinguistically gross listener responses mentioned above are features in an array of devices which I have hypothesized place the ... of language change NY: Academic Lakoff, R 1973 The logic of politeness, or minding your p's and q's Papers from the ninth regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society Scollon, R 1980 The...

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... report documents the results of the first phase of a two-phase study conducted for the Office of Electricity Transmission and Distribution of the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) and the Pacific Northwest ... depends on the severity of the outage or disturbance, the value of the electrical services forgone, the cost of interrupted production processes, the cost of alternative power sources and other means ... 20–21) evaluate the effect of demand response on expenditures but not include the results in their conservative scenario “because of the wide range of these estimates and the fact that they possibly...

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... 27,772 30,913 Estimating the Value to the UK of Education Exports The task of estimating the value of these sectors is not a straightforward one, and the data used to estimate the values in some ... exposition of the nature of the analysis that we have used (compared with the previous studies) in order to improve the estimates of the value of education exports in the United Kingdom The current ... Combining the information on the number of students, their level of study and the average non-tuition fee expenditure during their studies, the estimate of the gross non-tuition fee expenditure of overseas...

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... logarithm of the published RR estimates as the entered means of the distribution and the standard errors of these RR estimates derived from the published 95% CIs (Table I) For each of the output ... possible risk The attributable fraction of disease burden in the population is determined by the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor in the population and the relative risk (RR) of disease ... although there is probably some exposure in these groups Furthermore, although the related chronic diseases would not yet manifest in the 15 - 29-year age group, the development of these diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... rate of return by comparing the costs of the degree (the initial investment) with the subsequent income (cash-flows) over the individual’s work life (the life of the project) Literature Review The ... income will be one of the determinants of his/her incremental income The other, the post-MBA income, is a function of the school, the candidate, and the state of the economy (GDP growth rate, unemployment, ... degree is the additional salary that results from the degree, while the cost of the investment is the foregone income and associated tuition and fees The internal rate of return (IRR) on the MBA...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... evaluate the different configurations of the theory was that the best definition of the parameters was the one that would lead to the fewest violations of Constraint and Rule We discuss the results ... chosen, and then to compute the CFs and the CB (if any) of each utterance on the basis of the anaphoric information and according to the notion of ranking specified This information was the used ... produced them; the texts in the pharmaceutical domain are leaflets providing the patients with the legally mandatory information about their medicine The total size of the corpus is of about 6,000...

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... revisions of the manuscript ESS participated in the initial development of the study, developed the instrument for the study, collected the data and made inputs into the various versions of the revised ... validity of the questionnaire was assessed by staff in the Nursing and Statistics departments at the University of Botswana, while the staff of the Community Home-Based Care Programme of the Ministry ... characteristics, their opinions on the services they rendered to the clients and the average time they spent in providing each service per week, the various costs they incurred, and the burdens they experienced...

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... performed on the behavior of the four criteria, with respect to the dynamic range of the amplitudes of the two sinusoids (Figure 6a) and to the whiteness of the noise (Figure 6b) S/N ratios of 10 dB ... measures the relative slope variation of the eigenvalues {λk }k=1, ,M The difference between the current eigenvalue and the mean of the next ones has been preferred to the simple subtraction of the ... issued from their difference allows quite satisfactorily the estimation of N PARTICULAR CASE OF A LINEAR PIECEWISE VARIATION OF THE AUTOCORRELATION MATRIX EIGENVALUES The theoretical validity of this...

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... Determination of the percentage of PF resin hardening The aim of studying the character of PF resins in the field of UV spectrum was to determine the amount of the insoluble proportion of a heat-hardened ... increase, the amount of evaporated water and heat losses will decrease, and thus the temperature in the marginal part of the set will increase The temperature of the central zone of the set at larger ... possibilities of the full utilization of its advantages Dimensions of the wood raw material are given by the size of the stem and it is not possible to manufacture the material of larger areas...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... determination of stand parameters (Šmelko 1988) The development of stand parameters was evaluated only in the case of spruce (Petráš et al 2006) Though after the 3rd publishing of yield tables in 1990 their ... the development of mean heights If it is valid that the actual height growth of the stand on research plot is the same as the development of the respective yield curve, then the same site index ... measurements 70% of them were used for the construction of yield tables and the remaining 30% are new measurements With regard to the principal aim of this work to evaluate the development and not the static...

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... from the high energy level to the state of lower energy The character of such radiation may be interpreted as a barometer of the function of photosynthetic mechanism (Ritchie, Landis 2005) The ... high content of calcium Table shows the basic parameters of chlorophyll fluorescence measured after the illumination of needle samples adapted to darkness These parameters illustrate the state and ... connected with the state of the photosynthetic apparatus and with photosynthetic rate The comparison of average values of plants showed higher ETR in container plants (plugs), especially for the mean...

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... calculated to estimate the values of root plate parameters on the basis of the Table Values of correlation coefficients between the aboveground parameters and the parameters of root plates in analyzed ... sites exceeded the circumference of the crown This author reported that the width of spruce root systems in the Hronec locality was wider by 94 cm than the width of the crown On the other hand, Konôpka ... that the growth ability of roots fades away since the age of 80 years; and that the root systems of trees at the age of 80 years were the same as those 120 years old According to our results, the...

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