The purpose of this study was to determine whether the observed phenotypic stability in static strength during adolescence, as measured by interage correlations in arm pull, is mainly caused by genetic and/or environmental factors. Subjects were from the Leuven Longitudinal Twin Study (n = 105 pairs, equally divided over 5 zygosity groups). Arm-pull data were aligned on age at peak height veloc...

Implementation of a Bayesian analysis of a selection experiment is illustrated using litter size [total number of piglets born (TNB)] in Danish Yorkshire pigs. Other traits studied include average litter weight at birth (WTAB) and proportion of piglets born dead (PRBD). Response to selection for TNB was analyzed with a number of models, which differed in their level of hierarchy, in their prior...

Several new tests are proposed for examining the adequacy of a family of parametric models against large nonparametric alternatives. These tests formally check if the bias vector of residuals from parametric Ž ts is negligible by using the adaptive Neyman test and other methods. The testing procedures formalize the traditional model diagnostic tools based on residual plots. We examine the rates...

In this study, we introduce and study a concept of distributed fuzzymodeling. Fuzzy modeling encountered so far is predominantly of a centralizednature by being focused on the use of a single data set. In contrast to this style ofmodeling, the proposed paradigm of distributed and collaborative modeling isconcerned with distributed models which are constructed in a highly collaborativefashion. I...

This chapter aims at a unified presentation of various methods of MCDA based on fuzzy measures (capacity) and fuzzy integrals, essentially the Choquet and Sugeno integral. A first section sets the position of the problem of multicriteria decision making, and describes the various possible scales of measurement (cardinal unipolar and bipolar, and ordinal). Then a whole section is devoted to each...

Fuzzy measures generalize additive and probabilities. Their advantage with respect to ones is that they permit model interactions between objects. Mesiar introduced in 1999 k-order Pan-additive fuzzy k-maxitive ones. They are related the Möbius transform generalizations. In this paper we introduce some other transforms call ( M a x , + ) ? represent convenient way when use genetic algorithms me...

7 In this paper, we show that weakly null-additive fuzzy measures on metric spaces possess regularity. Lusin’s theorem, which is well-known in classical measure theory, is generalized to fuzzy measure space by using the 9 regularity and weakly null-additivity. A version of Egoro2’s theorem for the fuzzy measure de3ned on metric spaces is given. An application of Lusin’s theorem to approximation...

In the paper the problem of estimation of the prediction intervals (error bars) for the family neuro-fuzzy Short-Term Load Forecasting (STLF) models is discussed. We investigate two neuro-fuzzy networks: Fuzzy Basis Function (FBF) Networks, and linear neuro-fuzzy model with Tagagi-Sugeno reasoning. The paper contains comparison of selected most important methods for error bars calculation (anal...

The prediction of product acceptability is often an additive effect of individual fuzzy impressions developed by a consumer on certain underlying attributes characteristic of the product. In this paper, we present the development of a data-driven fuzzy-rule-based approach for predicting the overall sensory acceptability of pistachio green hull’s marmalade. The model was formulated using the Tak...