Conservative and reconstructive dentistry saw a constant evolution, becoming a reliable technique of oral rehabilitation aiming to maintain, as much as possible, the remaining teeth in the oral cavity. The resorption of tooth's surrounding support tissues (cortical-cancellous bone and PDL) reduces its capability to efficiently support current functional loadings, determining a failure in time. ...

Directional data are ubiquitous in science. These data have some special properties that rule out the use of classical statistics. Therefore, different distributions and statistics, such as the univariate von Mises and the multivariate von Mises–Fisher distributions, should be used to deal with this kind of information. We extend the naive Bayes classifier to the case where the conditional prob...

Directional data are often collected in applications such as in genetics, geology and astrolomy. One particular statistical problem of interest is whether the data are from a mixture of two von Mises distributions or a single von Mises distribution. Motivating examples including a DNA microarray experiment where it is suggested that a proportion of circadian genes have systematically different ...

In this article I outline a basic interpretive conjecture about the political philosophy of Ludwig von Mises, issue very few work have been done. begin with psychological that explains his life and work; then, from there, explain philosophy’s hard core (focusing on particular utilitarianism notion social cooperation «civilization»). Then analyze some specific issues: state nation, property, pea...

Random eld models in image analysis and spatial statistics usually have local interactions. They can be simulated by Markov chains which update a single site at a time. The updating rules typically condition on only a few neighboring sites. If we want to approximate the expectation of a bounded function, can we make better use of the simulations than through the empirical estimator? We describe...