Meta-analysis has a natural formulation as a Bayesian hierarchical model. The main theoretical difficulty is the construction of a sensible relationship between the parameters of the individual statistical experiments and the meta-parameter. Since that prior information on such a relationship is typically not available, we argue that this relationship should be dictated by the structure of the ...

March 19, 2012 Type Package Title Nearest Neighbour Contingency Table Analysis Version 0.0-3 Date 2012-03-19 Author Marcelino de la Cruz Rot and Philip M. Dixon Maintainer Marcelino de la Cruz Rot Depends splancs, spatstat Description Function to test spatial segregation and association based in contingency table analysis of nearest neighbour counts following Dixon (...

We analyse how a learner modelling engine that uses belief functions for evidence and belief representation, called XLM, reacts to different input information about the learner in terms of changes in the state of its beliefs and the decisions that it derives from them. The paper covers XLM induction of evidence with different strengths from the qualitative and quantitative properties of the inp...

The worldwide demand for energy is steadily growing. Environmental pressure has driven the power generation shift from fossil fuel to more 'green' sources of supply, such as wind or solar. However, the intermittent nature of wind has also brought many uncertainties to network operation. Traditionally, to have a sufficiently secure operational margin, a transfer limit is calculated based on iter...