G. P. Patil, Mathematical and Environmental Geospatial Statistics and Analysis Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University W. L. Myers, Remote Sensing, Natural Resources, and Software School of Forest Resources, The Pennsylvania State University C. Taillie, Computational Statistics and Stochastics Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University Stephen Rathbun, Depar...

ViSta – the Visual Statistics System – is an open, extensible and freely distributed system for teaching introductory and multivariate statistics and for research and development in visual and computational statistics. ViSta features state-of-the art statistical visualization techniques for visually guiding novice data analysts; for visualizing the overall structure of the data analysis session...

We will turn to counter-based PRNGs (CBRNGs for short), functions of the form: xn = bk(n). Here n is a counter, k is a key, both integers, and bk() is a member of a family of bijections. CBRNGs are inherently parallelizable: one can implement either the multistream approach (each stream with different different keys k) and the substream approach (fixing k and associating different streams with ...

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Some baseline patient factors, such as biomarkers, are useful in predicting patients’ responses to a new therapy. Identification of such factors is important in enhancing treatment outcomes, avoiding potentially toxic therapy that is destined to fail and improving the cost-effectiveness of treatment. Many of the biomarkers, such as gene expression, are measured on a continuous scale. Threshold ...