Article: A repairable system with N failure modes and K standby units using separation of variable method.

Article: Auxiliary variable methods for Markov chain Monte Carlo with ...
Journal of the American Statistical Association;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... variables. The general auxiliary variable method may be implemented as follows ... Define transition kernels [P.sub.u],((x,u) [right ... u[prime])) and [P.sub.x](x, u) [right arrow ... updated with a Gibbs step, [P.sub.u]((x, u) [right arrow ...

Article: Birthweight productivity of prenatal care.
Southern Economic Journal;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Delta].sub.3]n + [[Delta].sub.4](n/m) + [[Delta].sub.5][m.sup.a] + [[Delta].sub.6][n.sup.a] + e (1) The ... gestation).(3) This dual continuous variable method of measuring prenatal care is preferable ...

Article: Commercial casino gambling: searching for structural change in ...
Atlantic Economic Journal;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Three regressions utilizing the dummy variable method of identifying structural change were constructed: Y = [[beta].sub.0] + [[beta].sub.1]TSTAXREV + [[beta].sub.2]PINC + [[beta].sub.3]TT ...

Article: Commutability between EQA and fresh clinical specimens requires ...
Clinical Chemistry;  June 1, 2006 ;     660 words ... ... Trust UK (HEART UK) laboratory sub committee, in collaboration ... HDL-choleslerol (HDL^sub C^) methods showed a positive ... concentration of triglyceride showed variable method-dependent bias between +12 ... increased but measured HDL^sub C^ remained unchanged. Similar ...

Article: Markov Chain Sampling Methods for Dirichlet Process Mixture ...
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Article: Geomagnetic fluctuations and free-response anomalous cognition: a ...
The Journal of Parapsychology;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... but including LST as a filtering variable. METHOD Data Sets The data consisted of ... to an effect size: es = [r.sub.MCE] - [r.sub.OBS]/[square root of ... 2] - 1)/12] where [r.sub.MCE] is the mean chance expectation ...

Article: Two-dimensional NMR studies of acrylate copolymers.(nuclear ...
Pure and Applied Chemistry;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... e., crystallinity, glass transition temperature ([T.sub.g]), tensile strength, etc.) and chemical properties ... Kelen-Tudos (KT) method [22] and nonlinear error-in-variable method (EVM) [23]. Reactivity ratios along with copolymer compositions ...