Browsing by Subject "Statistics"
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COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR GROWTH CHART CONSTRUCTION IN THE CANADIAN HEALTH MEASURES SURVEY
(2016-08-23)Quantile and GAMLSS methods for growth curves are described and applied to data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey for child Body Mass Index (BMI) and triceps skinfold thickness. Both methods use cubic splines and ... -
Developing computational models to understand aging
(2021-12-17)Aging in biological organisms is a complex process, involving changes at all levels of functioning. No single pathway or mechanism is responsible for aging, leading to the current understanding that aging is due to a number ... -
Distribution and Elemental Composition of Picoplankton in the North Pacific Ocean
(2021-01-05)Marine picoplankton account for a considerable portion of primary production in the Ocean, particularly in the oligotrophic regions. Picoplankton are dominated by three major groups: Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus and ... -
Extremes of pressure during the winter of 1869-70
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INFERENCE OF GENE COEVOLUTION BASED ON PHYLOGENETIC PROFILES
(2022-11-17)Phylogenetic profiles, which summarize the presence and absence patterns of genes in a set of genomes, can be used to identify genes that have correlated evolutionary histories. However, comparative analysis of phylogenetic ... -
Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin 16(12), 1937
(Medical Society of Nova Scotia, 1937) -
Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin 4(6), 1925
(Halifax, Medical Society of Nova Scotia, 1925) -
Risk Estimation using Random Forests
(2017-04-06)The random forest probability machine (RFPM) introduced by Dasgupta et al. (2014) is a consistent, non-parametric regression technique that, when applied to binary outcomes, enables calculation of predictor effect size ... -
Statistics of expenditure and consumption in Canada
(The Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1899) -
USING NLP TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECTS OF NON-GAAP MEASURES TO PREDICT THE OUTCOME OF SECURITIES LAWSUITS
(2019-12-10)The Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is arguably the most tonal section of the reports provided to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of that dialogue, companies use non-standardized financial ... -
Using R and Latex to Develop Automated Wait Time Report Generator for Nova Scotia Screening Program
(2012-05-28)According to the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program, with the presence of long waiting time lists there is an increasing need for automatic analysis methods to determine the causes of its existence. The AutoReport Generator ...