probabilistic and statistical methods

... a guide for paint analysis and comparison of paints that involves a combination of several methods An ASTM Standard E1610 (Standard Guide for Forensic Paint Analysis and Comparison) has since ... Signature of Candidate 07/09/10 Date (month/day/year) *Located at http://www.purdue.edu/policies/pages/teach_res_outreach/viii_3_1.html INSTRUMENTAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ... good times and bad, and I love you iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dr John V Goodpaster, my advisor and mentor, for assisting me throughout my graduate career Your guidance and support...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 11:33

... binh (ECE, NUS), and many others Last but not least, I’ll like to thank my family (Dad, Mom and Sister), friends and loved ones for their support Without their consideration and endless supports, ... surgery The motivation of this thesis is to understand the science of RF ablation - to be able to understand, model and simulate RF ablation, and to relate physical properties changes with RF ... ablation and the correlation between impedance, stiffness and ablation duration This chapter is also related to the optimization of RF ablation and is applicable to chapter six In chapter five, a statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 18:21

... returns the different Value-at-Risk and related measures of risk (expected shortfall, volatility) using standard methods and the most recent state-of-the-art methods This educational tool continually ... Fung and Hsieh (2002) and Mitchell and Pulvino (2001) who investigated the performance characteristics of trend-following and risk-arbitrage strategies, respectively More recently, Agarwal and ... understanding and enlightenment are required from different people during the process I will be forever grateful for the emotional support received from my parents, Elzbieta and Wojciech, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00

... Neuenschwander Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Cryptology An Introduction by Selected Topics 13 Author Daniel Neuenschwander Universities of Bern and Lausanne (Switzerland) and Swiss ... the events E2,i and E2,j and the random variables Ae y and Ae y (i = j) t,i t,j are independent Hence (for i = j) the events E1,i and E1,j and thus the indicator variables Ii and Ij are independent ... (mod.nB ) D Neuenschwander: Prob and Stat Methods in Cryptology, LNCS 3028, pp 17-35, 2004  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 (2.2) 18 RSA and Probabilistic Prime Number Tests and sends this...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 12:01

... Bartlett and J Shawe-Taylor Generalization performance of support vector machines and other pattern classi ers In B Scholkopf, C J C Burges, and A J Smola, editors, Advances in Kernel Methods ... Nature of Statistical Learning Theory Springer, N.Y., 1995 V Vapnik Statistical Learning Theory Wiley, N.Y., 1998 V Vapnik and A Chervonenkis A note on one class of perceptrons Automation and Remote ... similarities Acknowledgements Thanks to A Smola and R Williamson for discussions, and to C Watkins for pointing out, in his NIPS'99 SVM workshop talk, that distances and dot products di er in the way they...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 13:37

... rigorous and general presentation of Mr FISHER’s theory, extending results of Mr DOOB and of Mr DUGUE (5) Let g (x B) be a function of random variable x and of the unknown i , i parameter B, and suppose ... priori that the random variables X and X’ are different, introducing right away a larger &dquo; , if it is accepted that X and X’ number of parameters (for example, X, a, are Laplacian) and they will ... for all N > No and for allbetween - a and + a tends towards when N, 00 Now, from N > the formula of finite No and for all between - a increments, these inequalities imply, for and 90 + a: ));...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... 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 ... Conclusion Two statistical methods that will enlarge the scientists toolbox for analyzing multi-harmonic oscillations were described As the example demonstrated the methods can be used to detect and compare ... offenders, fire setters, and healthy volunteers Arch Gen Psychiatry 1994, 51:20-7 48 Sivarajasingam V, Matthews K, Shepherd J: Price of beer and violencerelated injury in England and Wales Injury 2006,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... plots of land are being selected, the assignment of different experimental conditions to the plots of land should be done randomly, by the use of a table of random numbers or some other randomizing ... ± infinity in value, and m1 m2 m3 f(X) (18) s12 s2 ϩ N1 N ^ ^ where m1 and m2 are the sample means, s2 and s2 are the 1 sample variances, N1 and N2 are the sample sizes and the X (σ UNITS) FIGURE ... and J C Geyer, Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1954 Feller, W., An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, 3rd Ed., 1, John Wiley and...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... approaches to analyze and rationally interpret the amount of data produced in highthroughput screens Here we describe methods and software to fulfill these requirements Results and discussion We ... morphologic parameters and two fluorescence intensities The morphologic parameters are forward light scatter (FSC) and sideward light scatter (SSC), and they measure cell size and cell granularity ... corresponds to cell size and SSC to cell granularity Several subpopulations can be distinguished: (I) healthy and well measured cells, (II) cell debris, and (III) cell conjugates and air bubbles (b)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22

... use and develop statistical and bioinformatics methods to improve detection and analyses of structural variants The thesis is divided into four studies as follows: I We develop a method and accompanying ... The allele frequencies of a and b have not changed and remain p and q, such that in the following generation, the genotype frequencies will again be p2, 2pq and q2, and so forth This is known ... frequencies p and q (where p+q = 1) for alleles a and b respectively, regardless of gender Assuming random mating, in the next generation, the frequencies of the aa, ab and bb genotypes are p2, 2pq and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:14

... this thesis contributes to the statistical process monitoring and process adjustment methods for quality and performance improvement 1.2 STATISTICAL PROCESS ADJUSTMENT Statistical process control ... customer satisfactions, reputation, brand value and savings The success of these statistical methods has not been limited to manufacturing industries alone These methods have also found equally useful ... adjustment errors and production length etc Box and Kramer (1992), Box and Luceño (1994) studied optimal dead band length considering fixed adjustment costs, sampling costs and quadratic off...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... manual and software for common statistical methods for ecological and biodiversity studies Roeland Kindt and Richard Coe World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya Suggested citation: Kindt R and ... 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 area Within each stratum, a random or systematic ... spatialsample(landuse1, n=10, method=”random”, plotit=T) spatialsample(landuse2, n=10, method=”random”, plotit=T) spatialsample(landuse3, n=10, method=”random”, plotit=T) To randomly select sample...

Ngày tải lên: 13/06/2016, 10:15

... Serra et al., statistical difference was not observed between the Brucellacapt and Coombs tests in terms of sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis and follow-up of brucellosis and it was concluded ... which included 68 patients with brucellosis and 70 control group, sensitivity and specificity were found to be 45.5 % and 97.1 % for Ig M and 79 % and 100 % for Ig G respectively (10) When the ... tests, immuncapture agglutination and ELISA Ig M and Ig G tests, which are based on sandwich ELISA system, are standardized tests that have high diagnostic value and can be used interchangeably...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... transfer, subscripts F and P indicate system fuel and system product, respectively, NK is the number of system components, and NP and NF are the numbers of system products and fuels, respectively ... used, and their minimum and maximum allowable values In problem OP11, in addition to the evident consideration of the turbines and HRSGs, some decision variables associated with the condenser and ... function OF is the same, and the process steam and process hot water demands are assumed constant Here, the larger problem OP11 is considered for both mathematical optimization and exergoeconomic improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:30

... mean and covariance matrix w 1 : Apply the stochastic on-line learning rule (3.37), choosing a random initial point and an appropriate learning rate Try different choices for the learning rate and ... log, absolute value, and det functions This result will be needed when the ICA problem is solved by maximum likelihood estimation in Chapter 62 GRADIENTS AND OPTIMIZATION METHODS 3.1.4 Taylor ... and should in fact be time dependent Yet a third very convenient way to write such update rules, in conformity with programming languages, is w w w @ J (w) @ w 64 GRADIENTS AND OPTIMIZATION METHODS...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 14:15

... of pressure and temperature at the end of it doing some work then there is no temperature change, i.e Initial temperature and pressure = T and P Final temperature and pressure = T and P 0 0 • ... of a rubber band A rubber band is a collection of long chain polymer molecules In its relaxed state the polymers are high disordered and entangled The amount of disorder is high and so the entropy ... possible we could measure the position and velocity of every particle of the system and calculate the total energy by summing up the individual kinetic and potential energies • • đ W = + PdV...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... noise is assumed to be additive This is a rather realistic assumption, standard in factor analysis and signal processing, and allows for a simple formulation of the noisy model Thus, the noisy ... observations x Denoting by z a nongaussian random variable, and by n a gaussian noise variable of variance , we should be able to express the relation between E fG(z )g and E fG(z + n)g in simple algebraic ... (see Section 2.7), and therefore any such estimation method would be immune to gaussian noise Such methods can be found in [63, 263, 471] The problem is, however, that such methods often use cumulants...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 11:20

... combinations of these elements: • Proportional only Proportional and Integral (most common) • Proportional, Integral, and Derivative • Proportional and Derivative • We will examine each of the three elements ... between the setpoint, the measurement, and the output Proportional—units The proportional or gain term may be calibrated in two ways: Gain and Proportional Band Gain = Output/Input Increasing the ... proportional and integral only Calculation of repeat time: (gain and reset terms used in controller) With the error set to zero (measurement input = setpoint), make a change in the input and note...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 08:26

... and Fred Adams Vol 125 Physics and Chemistry of Solid State Sensor Devices By Andreas Mandelis and Constantinos Christofides Vol 126 Electroanalytical Stripping Methods By Khjena Z Brainina and ... the standard deviation on a continuous series of individual measurements 1.1 MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATION This section treats the calculation of the mean, the standard deviation, and the standard ... Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry Second Edition Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry CHEMICAL ANALYSIS A SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS ON ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20