We investigate here how to treat numerically the Kendall functional equation occuring in the theory of branching processes and queueing theory. We discuss this question in the context of priority queueing systems with switchover times. In numerical analysis of such systems one deals with functional equations of the Kendall type and efficient numerical treatment of these is necessary in order to...

Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch To cite this article: Kendall Cotton Bronk , Patrick L. Hill , Daniel K. Lapsley , Tasneem L. Talib & Holmes Finch (2009) Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4:6, 500-510, DOI: 10.1080/1743...

Creating innovative ways for the identification of trends is a very vital part atmospheric studies. Different climatic locations present their unique variations, calling dynamism trend analysis. In addition to widely adopted Mann–Kendall (MK) test, new Şen’s analysis (ITA) method has been applied analyze refractivity related (atmosphere pressure—AP, vapour pressure—VP, ambient temperature—T) an...

We propose new positive definite kernels for permutations. First we introduce a weighted version of the Kendall kernel, which allows to weight unequally the contributions of different item pairs in the permutations depending on their ranks. Like the Kendall kernel, we show that the weighted version is invariant to relabeling of items and can be computed efficiently in O(n ln(n)) operations, whe...