For right censored data, Efron (1981) has shown that his “simple” and “obvious” methods of bootstrapping are equivalent. We explain why this equivalence no longer holds for truncated data. Wang (1991) generalized Efron’s “obvious” bootstrap method to data that are both left truncated and right censored, under the assumption that C ≥ T and C − T is independent of T , where T and C denote the (ge...

Since no stable matching mechanism can induce truth-telling as a dominant strategy for all participants, there is often room in matching markets for strategic misrepresentation (Roth [25]). In this paper we study a natural form of strategic misrepresentation: reporting a truncation of one’s true preference list. Roth and Rothblum [28] prove an important but abstract result: in certain symmetric...

  Background and Objective: Improved and modified automation will require the development of smart process control systems that provide on-line decisions to release patients’ test results based on high analytical quality assurance formula. Materials and Methods: We collected patients’ test results from 10840 healthy subjects based on 1.96z as truncation limit for 29 common haematochemical ana...

Abstract. Second-order boundary value problems are solved with exponentially-fltted Numerov methods. In order to attribute a value to the free parameter in such a method, we look at the leading term of the local truncation error. By solving the problem in two phases, a value for this parameter can be found such that the tuned method behaves like a sixth order method. Furthermore, guidelines to ...

We consider second-order linear time-invariant systems. The objective of this paper is to present a new method for constructing a reduced system by preserving the second-order structure of the original system. This new model reduction method uses a variant of the well-known balanced truncation technique applied to second-order gramians. We also compare it with another existing technique. © 2004...