In a number of practical scenarios, such as video conferencing and visual human/computer interaction, objects that belong to a well defined class are segmented, normalized, and encoded, after which they are stored and/or transmitted, and subsequently reconstructed. The Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) optimally concentrates the signal power in a relatively small number of uncorrelated coefficient...

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is the most efficient method available for the analysis of experimental data. Analysis of variance is a method of considerable complexity and subtlety, with many different variations, each of which applies in a particular experimental context. Hence, it is possible to apply the wrong type of ANOVA to data and, therefore, to draw an erroneous conclusion from an exper...

Marketers have recently begun to embrace complex experimental designs for marketing and advertising testing. Full-factorial, fractional-factorial and Plackett–Burman designs have given marketers new statistical tools to increase the speed, power, and profitability of their testing programs. This case study shows how well constructed and managed experimental designs offer marketing professionals...

In this study effects that are significant on the fuel consumption of F-4 aircrafts are analyzed by using different statistical methods and the results of those different methods are compared. The response variable of every possible combination of factors and interactions are analyzed to provide information about main effect(s) and interaction effect(s). MARS is applied in order to find the rel...

This paper considers a regression approach to estimating signal detection parameters for rating data. The methodology is based on the statistical modeling of ordinal data and requires only standard statistical software such as SAS (SAS/STAT User's Guide, 1999) for computation. The approach is more efficient than the current practice of extracting the parameter estimates with the use of speciali...

The target of the present study is to use experimental design in screening and optimizing experimental variables to develop a spectrophotometric method for determination of Cefdinir (CFN) antibiotic. The proposed method is based on the oxidative coupling reaction of CFN with 3methylbenzothiazolinone-2hydrazone (MBTH) in presence of FeCl3 in acidic medium forming a green colored chromogen measur...

The normalized factorial moments Fq are continued to noninteger values of the order q, satisfying the condition that the statistical fluctuations remain filtered out. That is, for Poisson distribution Fq = 1 for all q. The continuation procedure is designed with phenomenology and data analysis in mind. Examples are given to show how Fq can be obtained for positive and negative values of q. With...