Series of Floor and Ceiling Function—Part I: Partial Summations

Proposed analyses of floor and ceiling effects.

Meaningful use: Floor or ceiling?

BACKGROUND In 2011, federal incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) began. This study evaluates the impact of the program on hospitals and EHR vendors, identifying how it affects EHR planning and development. Specifically, it assesses whether vendors and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are viewing the meaningful use requirements as a floor - the minimally acc...

The Vector Floor and Ceiling Model¤

This paper motivates and develops a nonlinear extension of the Vector Autoregressive model which we call the Vector Floor and Ceiling model. Bayesian and classical methods for estimation and testing are developed and compared in the context of an application involving U.S. macroeconomic data. In terms of statistical signi ̄cance both classical and Bayesian methods indicate that the (Gaussian) li...

SOME SUMMATIONS OF q-SERIES BY TELESCOPING

Summation formulae for q-series with independent bases are obtained and used to derive transformation and expansion of q-series involving independent bases.

On the floor and the ceiling of a divisor

Given a divisor A of a function field, there is a unique divisor of minimum degree that defines the same vector space of rational functions as A and there is a unique divisor of maximum degree that defines the same vector space of rational differentials as A. These divisors are called the floor and the ceiling of A. A method is given for finding both the floor and the ceiling of a divisor. The ...