Plain Answers to Several Questions about Association/Independence Structure in Complete/Incomplete Contingency Tables

Bayesian inference about odds ratio structure in ordinal contingency tables

When the goal of a study is to compare two groups on an ordinal categorical scale, a large number of inferential methods are available. Most methods are designed to detect a location effect, such as by focusing a single-degree-of-freedom test on an effect parameter. Often, rather than merely summarizing by a P -value to describe the evidence against a null hypothesis, it is of interest to consi...

Answers to Common Questions about Capsule

You need to determine the density of the formulation to answer this question for powder formulation, use the tapped density value. For pellets or granules, use the bulk density. Once you have this information and you know the target till weight, ask the capsule supplier for a capacity chart, such as the one shown in Table.1. Using this chart as an example, encapsulating 500 milligrams of a powd...

Questions and Answers about BSP

Games in Banach Spaces: Questions and Several Answers

This is a preliminary sketch of several new ideas and questions concerning Aronszajn-null sets. 1. Motivation Aronszajn null sets were introduced by Aronszajn in the context of studying a.e. differentiability of Lipschitz mappings between Banach spaces. Christensen, Phelps and Mankiewicz studied the same problem independently and used Haar null, Gaussian null and cube null sets, respectively. S...

Answers and questions about ethics consultations.

ETHICS CONSULTATIONS ARE TOUTED FOR RESOLVING ETHIcal dilemmas, and most hospitals use them to meet the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations’ requirement for a process to resolve conflicts in patient care. Little rigorous evidence is available, however, about the outcomes of ethics consultations. In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Schneiderman and colleagues report a mu...

Questions and Answers about Ten Formal Methods

B description speci cally helps to identify the nature of the service o ered to customers from the customer viewpoint. Z animation has made it possible to answer the following questions about the domain: The same service cannot be provided twice. If there is an authority for providing a service then it will be provided. QNAP2 and SWAP suggest di erent ways of con guring systems e.g. types of sc...