This article investigated the determinants of firm’s earnings quality (FREQ) using panel data Egyptian listed firms to address concerns endogeneity and heterogeneity. We found that CEO power dynamics negatively impact FREQ. Furthermore, corporate governance’s weakening or substitution role is for negative association between Our findings showed board-independence significantly weakens impacts C...

ABSTRACT A common application in the health care industry is to investigate the association between a response variable interest that has dichotomous outcome such as having or not having a certain disease with one or more variables. This type of study can be analyzed by using the FREQ procedure if there are only one or two explanatory categorical variables. A more general approach to study a bi...

This paper investigates the utility gain of using Iterative Bayesian Update (IBU) for private discrete distribution estimation data obfuscated with Locally Differentially Private (LDP) mechanisms. We compare performance IBU to Matrix Inversion (MI), a standard technique, seven LDP mechanisms designed one-time collection and other multiple collections (e.g., RAPPOR). To broaden scope our study, ...

Bone mineral density (BMD) is a measure of osteoporosis and is useful in evaluating the risk of fracture. In a genome-wide association study of BMD among 20,100 Icelanders, with follow-up in 10,091 subjects of European and East-Asian descent, we found a new BMD locus that harbours the PTCH1 gene, represented by rs28377268 (freq. 11.4-22.6%) that associates with reduced spine BMD (P=1.0 × 10(-11...

This paper introduces Jeffreys interval for one-sample proportion using SAS® software. It compares the credible interval from a Bayesian approach with the confidence interval from a frequentist approach. Different ways to calculate the Jeffreys interval are presented using PROC FREQ, the QUANTILE function, a SAS program of random walk Metropolis sampler, and PROC MCMC.

This paper illustrates a permutation method for implementing multiple comparisons on Pearson’s Chi-square test for an R×C contingency table, using the SAS procedure FREQ and a newly developed SAS macro called CHISQ_MC. This method is analogous to the Tukey-type multiple comparison method for one-way analysis of variance.

This presentation illustrates a method for creating a multiple comparison test for proportions in a 2 x C cross tabulation or contingency table using the FREQ procedure and a SAS macro called compprop. This test is analogous to a Tukey-type multiple comparison test as used with one-way analysis of variance.

In this paper, we propose an energy e cient synthesis technique for datapath circuits. Speci cally, we propose a time and resource constrained scheduling algorithm, (DFMVS), which utilizes the concept of Dynamic Frequency Clocking and Multiple Voltage Scaling. In the dynamic frequency scheme, all units are driven by a single clock line which changes at run time depending on the functional unit ...

In a systematic sequencing screen of synaptic genes on the X chromosome, we have identified an autistic female without mental retardation (MR) who carries a de novo frameshift Ile367SerfsX6 mutation in Interleukin-1 Receptor Accessory Protein-Like 1 (IL1RAPL1), a gene implicated in calcium-regulated vesicle release and dendrite differentiation. We showed that the function of the resulting trunc...