A major research gap is the relative ridership performance of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT), and streetcar (SC). This paper assesses ridership influences of 101 routes in Australia, Europe, and North America using multiple regression examining the influence of transit mode, vehicle capacity, service level, employment/residential density, car ownership, speed, stop spacing, r...

The likelihood ratio test (LRT) and the related F-test, popularized in astrophysics by Eadie and coworkers in 1971, Bevington in 1969, Lampton, Margon, & Bowyer, in 1976, Cash in 1979, and Avni in 1978, do not (even asymptotically) adhere to their nominal 2 and F-distributions in many statistical tests common in astrophysics, thereby casting many marginal line or source detections and nondetect...

Rare variant association studies are gaining importance in human genetic research with the increasing availability of exome/genome sequence data. One important test of association between a target set of rare variants (RVs) and a given phenotype is the sequence kernel association test (SKAT). Assignment of weights reflecting the hypothesized contribution of the RVs to the trait variance is embe...

[1] We assess the importance of distant pollution sources on the marine background by combining measurements of carbon monoxide (CO) and ozone (O3) with model simulations from the GEOS-CHEM chemical transport model and two types of back trajectories. Measurements were made over a complete annual cycle from March 2001 to May 2002 at Cheeka Peak Observatory (CPO) in Washington State. Data from an...

Background: The role of locoregional radiotherapy (LRT) the nasopharynx and neck in patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (M-NPC) remains unclear. present meta-analysis aimed to compare efficacy chemotherapy (CT) plus LRT CT alone M-NPC patients.

Light Rail Transit (LRT), integrated with river transportation as a unique city and tourist attraction, is important in supporting smart cities. This study aims to assess the possibilities of users who use LRT an advanced mode its infrastructure. research quantitative descriptive approach. Primary data obtained from survey movement outside Palembang City has potential continue their journey usi...

Inference of variance components in linear mixed effect models (LMEs) is not always straightforward. I introduce and describe a flexible SAS ® macro (%COVTEST) that uses the likelihood ratio test (LRT) to test covariance parameters in LMEs by means of the parametric bootstrap. Users must supply the null and alternative models (as macro strings), and a data set name. The macro calculates the obs...

Readers may be surprised by the recent editorial of Dr. Rosenberg, ‘Current evidence is not in support of lipid rescue therapy in local anaesthetic systemic toxicity’. Lipid rescue therapy (LRT) is widely accepted and recommended for treating local anaesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) but Dr. Rosenberg purports that the efficacy and safety data are insufficient to warrant its use for this indic...