Dedication - George Wesley Santos

In honor of George R . Brown Engineering School dedication set for Wednesday

The George R. Brown School of E n g i n e e r i n g will be dedicated in special ceremonies Wednesday honoring Brown, a Rice alumnus and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Alan Chapman, Dean of the newly-established school, will p r e s i d e a t t h e f o r m a l ded ica t ion ceremonies in Hamman Hall at 3:30pm. Lead speakers include Chairman of the Board of Governors Herbert Allen and...

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Roger Wesley Hoerl

This study compared various biased estimation and subset selection regression techniques over a wide range of realistic situations. In an attempt to make the results applicable to the class of all practical regression problems, the parameters relevant to a comparison of the techniques involved were varied systematically. An outline of the design follows. (1) The residual variance ((sigma)('2)) ...

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Dedication Acknowledgments

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