‎we extend the method of adaptive two-stage sequential sampling to‎‎include designs where there is more than one criteria is used in‎‎deciding on the allocation of additional sampling effort‎. ‎these‎‎criteria‎, ‎or conditions‎, ‎can be a measure of the target‎‎population‎, ‎or a measure of some related population‎. ‎we develop‎‎murthy estimator for the design that is unbiased estimators for‎‎t...

We present a comparative study of soil CO2 flux (FCO2) measured by five groups (Groups 1-5) at the IAVCEI-CCVG Eighth Workshop on Volcanic Gases on Masaya volcano, Nicaragua. Groups 1-5 measured FCO2 using the accumulation chamber method at 5-m spacing within a 900 m grid during a morning (AM) period. These measurements were repeated by Groups 1-3 during an afternoon (PM) period. All measured F...

A sequential decision problem, based on the task of identifying the species of trees given acoustic echo data collected from them, is considered with well-known stochastic classifiers, including single and mixture Gaussian models. Echoes are processed with a preprocessing stage based on a model of mammalian cochlear filtering, using a new discrete low-pass filter characteristic. Stopping time p...

Background: The area of contaminated lands exposed to the health risk of environmental pollutants is a matter of argument. In this study, a new method was developed to estimate the amount of area that is exposed to higher than normal levels of Cr, Mn, and V. Methods: Overall, 170 soil samples were collected from the upper 10 cm of soil in an arid area in central part of Iran in Semnan Provin...

There is a strong need for sound statistical analysis of simulation and optimization algorithms. Based on this analysis, improved parameter settings can be determined. This will be referred to as tuning. Model-based investigations are common approaches in simulation and optimization. The sequential parameter optimization toolbox SPOT package for R [5] is a toolbox for tuning and understanding s...

The aim of seismic inversion is mapping all of the subsurface structures from seismic data. Due to the band-limited nature of the seismic data, it is difficult to find a unique solution for seismic inversion. Deterministic methods of seismic inversion are based on try and error techniques and provide a smooth map of elastic properties, while stochastic methods produce high-resolution maps of el...