Confidence intervals are an established means of portraying uncertainty about inferred parameter and can be generated through the use confidence distributions. For a distribution to valid, it must maintain frequentist coverage true parameter. This represented for precise by adherence cumulative unit uniform distribution, comparison that is referred here as Singh plot. article extends this impre...

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Implementing public health measures with obvious benefits becomes a complex struggle when commercial interests are paramount T he evening of 25 March 2009 was cool for the community consultation — a necessary step before the implementation of fluoridation of the Cobram water supply. There were only a few people present in the Civic Centre, but they warmly applauded the initiative. None of the e...

In this paper I wish to raise a philosophical question about logic, namely, the question whether its laws can consistently be thought of as analogous to those of the empirical sciences, i.e., as subject in some sense or other to test and confirmation, or whether, as is more often maintained, they must be thought of as analytic and a priori if not as coventional. In order to float the question, ...

A set of N data elements (xI +•.• + X~)/N and variance of the th The r moment of the data elements elements is used to estimate E(xr ). th r x1' •.•• xN has r moment E(x)= th r 2r 2 r r moment Var(x ) = E(x )-E (x ). in an arbitrary subset of k Over all the choices of the sample, the mean error is zero and the mean squared error N-k r k(N-I) Var(x). A little-known theorem by Marlow shows that t...

In this paper, a fuzzy information fusion method of fault diagnosis based on evidence similarity measure is presented. First, because of the fuzziness of information received by sensors, membership functions are introduced to describe the fault template mode in model database and features extracted from sensor observations; then the degrees of matching between them are obtained using random set...