OBJECTIVE To estimate the relationship between variations in medical spending and health outcomes of the elderly. DATA SOURCES 1992-2002 Medicare Current Beneficiary Surveys. STUDY DESIGN We used instrumental variable (IV) estimation to identify the relationships between alternative measures of elderly Medicare beneficiaries' medical spending over a 3-year observation period and health stat...

This paper presents a methodology for identifying variable-structure models of magneto-rheological dampers (MRDs) that are structurally simple, easy to estimate and well suited for model-based control. Linear-in-the-parameters NARX models are adopted, and an identification method is developed based on the minimisation of the simulation error. Both the model structure and the parameters are sele...

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) shows great potential for real-time monitoring and identification of infectious disease outbreaks. However, rapid and reliable comparison of data generated in multiple laboratories and using multiple technologies is essential. So far studies have focused on using one technology because each technology has a systematic bias making integration of data generated from ...

Data mining is the process of extracting and analyzing the large datasets to find out various hidden relationship patterns and much other useful information. Random forest is an ensemble method which is widely used is application having large datasets because of its interesting features like handling imbalanced data, identifying variable importance and detecting error rate. For building random ...

a watching system in a graph $g=(v, e)$ is a set $w={omega_{1}, omega_{2}, cdots, omega_{k}}$, where $omega_{i}=(v_{i}, z_{i}), v_{i}in v$ and $z_{i}$ is a subset of closed neighborhood of $v_{i}$ such that the sets $l_{w}(v)={omega_{i}: vin omega_{i}}$ are non-empty and distinct, for any $vin v$. in this paper, we study the watching systems of line graph $k_{n}$ which is called triangular grap...