BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to identify any distinct behavioural patterns in switching between public and privately insured payment classifications between successive episodes of inpatient care within Western Australia between 1980 and 2001 using a novel 'couplet' method of analysing longitudinal data. METHODS The WA Data Linkage System was used to extract all hospital morbidity recor...

Negative feedback can signal poor performance, but it also provides information that can help learners reach the goal of task mastery. The primary aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the amount of information provided by negative feedback during a paired-associate learning task influences feedback-related processing in the caudate nucleus. To do this, we manipulated the number of ...

Mental imagery improves paired-associate (PA) learning relative to overt rehearsal. The effect might be due to increased reliability of stimulus encoding or to increased relational association produced by imagery. These hypotheses expect different outcomes when imagery and rote-rehearsal Ss are compared on memory tests of stimulus recognition and on recall of the response term conditional upon ...

in the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results. in these ‘‘deterministic’’ frontier models, statistical theory is now mostly available. this paper deals with the statistical pared sample method and its capability of detecting outliers in data envelopment analysis. in the prese...

At airports with closely-spaced parallel runways, the inability to conduct simultaneous approaches in all weather conditions is a cause of significant delay. One concept for reducing delay is paired approaches, where two airc raft on closely spaced approaches are ‘paired’, and the ‘trail’ aircraft stays within a safe zone relative to the ‘lead’. This positioning guarantees that neither aircraft...

Spoken Paired Word Pattern Written by Administrator Tuesday, 15 March 2011 09:37 Last Updated Monday, 21 March 2011 07:49 Technologies that recognize short spoken words from a small, predefined vocabulary have been commercially available from many years. In this paper, Spoken Paired Word (SPW) as a whole word template has been explored for utility and suitability in real time system, which has ...

Paired comparison is an expert based judgment estimation technique. The method reduces individual judgment errors by requiring multiple pair-wise comparisons of relative sizes. Observations made in an academic environment shows that paired comparison produces more consistent results across estimators compared to ad-hoc methods and planning poker. A tool is introduced, which implements a more ef...

In virtually all machine learning applications, hyper-parameter tuning is required to maximize predictive accuracy. Such tuning is computationally expensive, and the cost is further exacerbated by the need for multiple evaluations (via crossvalidation or bootstrap) at each configuration setting to guarantee statistically significant results. This paper presents a simple, general technique for i...