normal approximation
Multivariate normal approximation in geometric probability
... yields normal approximation of the sum of a single collection of random variables that are ‘mostly independent’, ...the normal approximation error bounds of [3]) to provide CLTs for certain ...
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Family based association test using normal approximation to gene dropping null distribution
... The normal approximation is justified by the central limit theorem because the test statistic is additive over ...The approximation may not be accurate for extre- mely small p ...
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A refinement of normal approximation to Poisson binomial
... variable and it is well known that the distribution of a Poisson binomial random variable can be approximated by the standard normal distribution. In this paper, we use Taylor’s formula to improve the ...
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Bayesian approximation techniques of Topp-Leone distribution
... the normal approximation behaves well than T-K approximation, although the posterior variances in case of T-K approximation are very close to that of normal ...
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Power of edge exclusion tests in graphical gaussian models
... asymptotic normal and non-central chi-squared approximations, as the sample size and the (partial) correlation coefficient ...the normal approximation performs better if the sample size is large and ...
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Securitizing British India: A New Framework of Analysis for the First Anglo Afghan War
... In this chapter, we will introduce some basic concept and methods we used in the thesis research. In a data set, for an element, the absolute mean deviation is the difference between that element and a given point [see ...
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Ellipsoidal Approximation of Distributions and Its Applications
... an approximation of the distribution which involves the mixed moments or semiinvariants only of the second order and is independent of the mixed moments or semiinvariants of higher ...the normal ...
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Cauchy approximation for sums of independent random variables
... the normal approximation to the distribution of a sum of dependent random variables, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability ...
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The Exercise Attitudes, Perceptions, and Perceived Outcomes of Older Minority Women Participating in a Fall Prevention Program
... Another popular nonparametric method to obtain confidence intervals for the mean is the empirical likelihood (EL) method introduced by Owen (1990). The EL method has several advantages over the other nonparametric ...
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Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: Bank Credit Maturity and Its Determinants
... Lorenz curves are extensively used in economics to analyze income inequality metrics. In this thesis, we discuss confidence interval estimation methods for generalized Lorenz curve. We first obtain normal ...
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Pointwise approximation for a type of Bernstein Durrmeyer operators
... x k ( – x) n–k . Derriennic [] established some direct results in ordinary and simultaneous approximation for Durrmeyer operators. Then Durrmeyer type opera- tors were studied widely [–]. Recently Gupta et al. ...
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Clinical Decision Making of Nurses Regarding Elder Abuse
... from the normal distribution N ( 1 , 1 ) . The simulation results are shown in Table I and Table II. From these tables, we observe that the NA intervals have the longest interval lengths and always over-cover the ...
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Approximation of surfaces by normal meshes
... Our approach also begins with the observation that it would be desirable to construct a general procedure to take approaches from the planar parameterization case and adapt them to the sphere. As such we are deliberately ...
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Gaussian process approximations for fast inference from infectious disease data
... In this paper, we have sought to provide results that will allow Gaussian process approximation to become a more routinely used technique in infectious disease epidemiology. We have considered a wide class of ...
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Interference Mitigation in Cognitive Radio using Genetic Algorithm
... random variables is asymptotically log-normal under certain conditions. These conditions shown to be satisfied for the sum of received powers from interferers uniformly distributed in a circular region with a ...
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Contextual approximation and higher order procedures
... contextual approximation is decidable for terms of all orders up to 3, but undecidable from order 4 ...contextual approximation between terms in -normal form as well as terms with the simplest ...
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A New Approximation for the Null Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio Test Statistics for k Upper Outliers in a Normal Sample
... Usually when performing a statistical test or estimation procedure, we assume the data are all observations of i.i.d. random variables, often from a normal distribution. Sometimes, however, we notice in a sample ...
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A New Approximate Bayesian Decision Rule About the Mean of a Gaussian Distribution Versus the Classical Decision Rule
... To compare the proposed approximate Bayesian decision rule with the classical approach, samples obtained from normally distributed populations (e.g., 1, 2, 3, .4, 7) as well as approximately normal populations ...
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Can the discretization modify the performance of Schwarz methods?
... (17) Remark 4. In the case δ = 2 with overlap 2h, and one-sided finite difference discretization of the normal derivative, the asymptotic performance of the discretized algorithm is as predicted by the continuous ...
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Large scale propagating disturbances: approximation by vertical normal modes
... quasigeostrophic approximation re- quires a spatially uniform stratification, which is not useful if our aim, as here, is to describe propagation on basin ...vertical normal modes appropriate to the local ...
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