enhanced oil recovery using nitrogen injection is a commonly applied method for pressuremaintenance in conventional reservoirs. numerical simulations can be practiced for the prediction ofa reservoir performance in the course of injection process; however, a detailed simulation might takeup enormous computer processing time. in such cases, a simple statistical model may be a goodapproach to the...

introduction automated methods for sperm characterization in microscopic videos have some limitations such as: low contrast of the video frames and possibility of neighboring sperms to touch each other. in this paper a new method is introduced for detection of sperms in microscopic videos. materials and methods in this work, first microscopic videos are captured from specimens of human semen. s...

Hypothesis testing is an important activity of empirical research and evidence-based medicine. A well worked up hypothesis is half the answer to the research question. For this, both knowledge of the subject derived from extensive review of the literature and working knowledge of basic statistical concepts are desirable. The present paper discusses the methods of working up a good hypothesis an...

Testing the equality of percentiles (quantiles) between populations is an effective method for robust, nonparametric comparison, especially when the distributions are asymmetric or irregularly shaped. Unlike global nonparametric tests for homogeneity such as the Kolmogorv-Smirnov test, testing the equality of a set of percentiles (i.e., a percentile profile) yields an estimate of the location a...

This paper considers the testing of fuzzy hypotheses on the basis of a Bayesian approach. For this, using a notion of prior distribution with interval or fuzzy-valued parameters, we extend a concept of posterior probability of a fuzzy hypothesis. Some of its properties are also put into investigation. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods are also cla...

non-performing assets (npas) have been a major cause of concern for indian commercial banks in the recent past years. many studies have been reported on the different aspects of npas in indian banking system. however, there is a crucial lack of investigation on the comparative assessment of various types of banks such as public sector banks, private sector banks and foreign banks so that the tr...

shape and movement features of sperms are important parameters for infertility study and treatment. in this article, a new method is introduced for characterizing sperms in microscopic videos. in this method, first a hypothesis framework is defined to distinguish sperms from other particles in captured video. then decision about each hypothesis is done in following steps: selecting some primary...

T his paper is to study the convergence of per capita income. Convergence clubs hypothesis is one of the forms of convergence hypotheses, implying that countries with the same initial level of economic development, technology, and government policies, tend to be similar in per capita income and thus have a tendency to cluster around a small number of poles. In order to test the hypot...

For many dose-response studies, large samples are not available. Particularly, when the outcome of interest is binary rather than continuous, a large sample size is required to provide evidence for hormesis at low doses. In a small or moderate sample, we can gain statistical power by the use of a parametric model. It is an efficient approach when it is correctly specified, but it can be mislead...