the effect of test on teachers, students, and their classroom behaviors has ever been amenable to scholarly studies. to explore such an effect, 20 professors offering ma tefl preparation courses and 30 candidates received plsp and apals inventories. paired-sample t-tests revealed significant differences. however, the respective componential multivariate anova revealed non-significant and signif...

For certain kinds of statistical simulations and Bayesian analyses, it is necessary to generate random samples from multivariate distributions. SAS/IML software provides the RANDGEN function for generating random samples from univariate distributions. However, the only subroutine for sampling from multivariate distributions is SAS/IML’s VNORMAL call, which samples from multivariate normal distr...

As particle physics experiments grow more complicated with each passing decade, so too do the analyses of data collected by these experiments. Multivariate analyses involving dozens of variables are not uncommon in this field. This note describes how the use of many variables in a multivariate analysis can actually degrade the ability to distinguish signal from background, rather than improve i...

objective: this paper explores the relationship between domestic violence against women inflicted by husbands, unwanted pregnancy and pregnancy termination of bangladeshi urban women. materials and methods: the study used the nationally representative 2007 bangladesh demographic and health survey (bdhs) data. the bdhs covered a representative sample of 10,996 ever married women from rural and u...