A nurse educator is interested in finding out the academic and non-academic predictors of success nursing students. Given complexity educational clinical learning environments, demographic, factors (age, gender, previous training, personal stressors, demands, motivation, assignment workload, etc) influencing students’ success, she was able to list various potential contributing towards relative...

In the linear regression setting, we propose a general framework, termed weighted orthogonal components (WOCR), which encompasses many known methods as special cases, including ridge and principal regression. WOCR makes use of monotonicity inherent in to parameterize weight function. The formulation allows for efficient determination tuning parameters hence is computationally advantageous. More...

Due to the increasingly demand for spatio-temporal analysis, time series and spatial statistics are extended to the spatial dimension and the temporal dimension respectively or they are combined via linear regression. However, such linear regression is just a simplification of complicated spatio-temporal associations existing in complex geographical phenomena. In this study, the Support Vector ...

introduction: tegrity is the most important component for transferring genetic information sperm dna fragmentation is considered a component of male infertility. its assessment comprises conventional semen analysis of which emphasis is placed on its evaluation in fertility clinics. in this study, we investigate the relationship between sperm parameters of motility, morphology, concentration, an...