a healthy diet. Additional tables in the references are also provided to give the numbers and standards needed to interpret values. In general, Morgan and Weinsier give a clear picture of nutrition's role in patient care. They emphasize quite correctly that treating a patient is more than just a surgical procedure and drugs. Good nutrition is an essential part of the patient's road to recovery....

in this paper, the geometric distribution is considered. the means, variances, and covariances of its order statistics are derived. the fisher information in any set of order statistics in any distribution can be represented as a sum of fisher information in at most two order statistics. it is shown that, for the geometric distribution, it can be further simplified to a sum of fisher informatio...

‎Recently‎, ‎a new distribution‎, ‎named as extended generalized exponential distribution‎, ‎has been introduced by Kundu and Gupta (2011). ‎In this paper‎, ‎we consider the extended generalized exponential distribution with known shape parameters α and β. ‎At first‎, ‎the exact expressions for marginal and product moments of o...

Most existing zero-forcing equalization algorithms rely either on higher than second-order statistics or on partial or complete channel identification. We describe methods for computing fractionally spaced zero-forcing blind equalizers with arbitrary delay directly from second-order statistics of the observations without channel identification. We first develop a batch-type algorithm; then, ada...

In this paper, we derive the exact analytical expressions for the Shannon entropy of generalized orderstatistics from Pareto-type and related distributions.

The dual generalized order statistics is a unified model which contains the well known decreasingly ordered random data such as (reversed ordered) order statistics and lower record values. In the present paper, some characterization results on the power function distribution based on the properties of dual generalized order statistics are provided. The results are proved without any rest...

When the received data are fractionally sampled, the magnitude and phase of most linear time-invariant FIR communications channels can be estimated from second-order output-only statistics. We present a general cyclic correlation matching algorithm for known order FIR blind channel identification that has closed-form expressions for calculating the asymptotic variance of the channel estimates. ...

Inspired by the chemical applications of higher-order connectivity index (or Randic index), we consider here the higher-order first Zagreb index of a molecular graph. In this paper, we study the linear regression analysis of the second order first Zagreb index with the entropy and acentric factor of an octane isomers. The linear model, based on the second order first Zag...