Browsing by Subject "bias"
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation consists of three projects in matched case-control studies. In the first project, we employ a general bias preventive approach developed by Firth (1993) to handle the bias of an estimator of the log-odds ...
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(2017-05-02)Particulate matter (PM) is one of the six criteria pollutants regulated under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Regional compliance with PM NAAQS is monitored using networks of Federal Reference Method ...
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(2009-06-02)Net pay (NP) and net-to-gross ratio (NGR) are often crucial quantities to characterize a reservoir and assess the amount of hydrocarbons in place. Numerous methods in the industry have been developed to evaluate NP and ...
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(Versita, 2007-12)Extremes of stream flow and precipitation are commonly modeled by heavytailed distributions. While scrutinizing annual flow maxima or the peaks over threshold, the largest sample elements are quite often suspected to be ...
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(2018-05-03)This dissertation introduces three essays on public economics with a focus on the developing country setting. The first two essays present evidence that the accountability generated by electoral institutions positively ...
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(2011-10-21)Historically, Hispanic/Latino (H/L) students have been under-referred, under-identified, and under-served by the U.S. Special Education (SPED) system, particularly under the emotional behavioral disturbance (EBD) category. ...
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(2012-08-20)Universal screening for behavior is the use of a measure of social, emotional or behavioral function across an entire population with a goal of preventing future difficulties by intervening with students identified by the ...
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(2023-04-18)Docking is a computational procedure designed to find molecules that bind possibly the “best” on the protein surface and predict their “correct” bound association. Most docking programs explore the conformation space of ...