I describe a group exercise that I give to my undergraduate biostatistics class. The exercise involves analyzing a series of 200 consecutive basketball free-throw attempts to determine whether there is any evidence for sequential dependence in the probability of making a free-throw. The students are given the exercise before they have learned the appropriate statistical tests, so that they can ...

Modeling the soil–structure interaction (SSI) in seismic design involves use of soil response curves for single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structures; however, real structures have multiple degrees freedom (MDOF). In this study, shaking-table-derived p-y SDOF and MDOF superstructures were compared using numerical analysis. It was found that an structure experienced less displacement than same wei...

Yield displacement is an important parameter that directly used in computing damping factor of buildings the Capacity Spectrum Method. In this paper, evaluation method a yield building firstly developed so it can quantitatively consider hysteresis energy absorption characteristics structural components. The proposed is, secondly, examined based on shaking table test 80% scale 5-story RC frame s...

The tilt after-effect (TAE) and tilt illusion (TI) have revealed a great deal about the nature of orientation coding of 1-dimensional (1D) lines and gratings. Comparatively little research however has addressed the mechanisms responsible for encoding the orientation of 2-dimensional (2D) plaid stimuli. A multi-stage model of edge detection has recently been proposed [Georgeson, M. A. (1998) Ima...

BACKGROUND This study estimated when it is safe to stop follow-up visits after cessation of amblyopia treatment and to identify factors associated with deterioration of visual acuity. METHODS Study patients included 282 patients aged 7 to 13 years who were monitored for deterioration after cessation of amblyopia treatment (median follow-up: 3.9 years). RESULTS Six (2.1%) patients lost 2 or ...

Background. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of tuberculosis and its predictors among HIV positive children. Methods. A six-year retrospective follow-up study was conducted among HIV infected children aged less than 15 years. Life table was used to estimate the cumulative probability of tuberculosis free survival. Cox proportional hazards model was used to identify predictor...

While there are many excellent acceptance testing tools and frameworks available today, this paper presents an alternative approach, involving generating code from tests specified in a declarative tabular format within Excel spreadsheets. While this is a general approach, it is most applicable to difficultto-test situations. Two such situations are presented: one involving complex fixture setup...