Predictive Alternatives in Bayesian Model Selection by Womack, Andrew Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, May, 2011. Professor Jeff Gill, Chairperson Model comparison and hypothesis testing is an integral part of all data analyses. In this thesis, I present two new families of information criteria that can be used to perform model comparison. In Chapter 1, I...

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Energy is a critical factor to obtain a sustainable development for countries and governments. Selection of the most appropriate energy alternative is a completely critical and a complex decision making problem. In this paper, an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology based on type-2 fuzzy sets is proposed for selection among energy alternatives. Then a roadmap has been cr...

the engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. the optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. however, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

QUERY-DEPENDENT SELECTION OF RETRIEVAL ALTERNATIVES SEPTEMBER 2011 NIRANJAN BALASUBRAMANIAN Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor James Allan The main goal of this thesis is to investigate query-dependent selection of retrieval alternatives for Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Retrieval alternatives include choices in representing queries (query representations), ...