Exact two-tailed tests and two-sided confidence intervals (CIs) for a binomial proportion or Poisson parameter by Sterne (Biometrika 41:117-129, 1954) or Blaker (Can J Stat 28(4):783-798, 2000) are successful in reduc...
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Exact two-tailed tests and two-sided confidence intervals (CIs) for a binomial proportion or Poisson parameter by Sterne (Biometrika 41:117-129, 1954) or Blaker (Can J Stat 28(4):783-798, 2000) are successful in reducing conservatism of the Clopper-Pearson method. However, the methods suffer from an inconsistency between the tests and the corresponding CIs: In some cases, a parameter value is rejected by the test, though it lies in the CI. The problem results from non-unimodality of the test p value functions. We propose a slight modification of the tests that avoids the inconsistency, while preserving nestedness and exactness. Fast and accurate algorithms for both the test modification and calculation of confidence bounds are presented together with their theoretical background.
Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) have been proved to be more ideal than fuzzy sets to handle non-probabilistic uncertainty and non-determinism in the system. The present study proposes an IFS-based computational metho...
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Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) have been proved to be more ideal than fuzzy sets to handle non-probabilistic uncertainty and non-determinism in the system. The present study proposes an IFS-based computational method to address the issue of non-determinism in financial time series forecasting. The proposed IFS-based forecasting method uses a simple computational algorithm to forecast without using complex computations using intuitionistic fuzzy logical relations. In order to see suitability of the proposed method in financial forecasting, it is implemented on three experimental data of the SBI share price, TAIEX and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Root mean square error and statistical test are used in the study to confirm the out performance of the proposed IFS-based computational method of forecasting. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms various existing methods for forecasting SBI, TAIEX and DJIA.
Stroke is a cardio-vascular disease that currently ranks in the fifth position among all causes of death worldwide. Computed tomography is the first radiologic examination performed in emergency decisions to diagnose ...
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(纸本)9789811090356;9789811090349
Stroke is a cardio-vascular disease that currently ranks in the fifth position among all causes of death worldwide. Computed tomography is the first radiologic examination performed in emergency decisions to diagnose stroke. The earliest signs of ischemic stroke are quite subtle in CT, thus image-processing tools can be used to enhance ischemic areas and to aid physicians during diagnosis. This study aimed to enhance the ischemic stroke visual perception in computed tomography examinations. A cohort of 45 exams were used during this study, with 28 patients previously diagnosed with ischemic stroke and 17 control patients. Stroke cases were obtained within 4.5 h of symptom onset and with mean NIHSS of 13.6 +/- 5.5. The complete series of non-enhanced images were obtained in DICOM format and all processing was performed in Matlab software R2017a. The main steps of the computed algorithm were as follows: an image averaging was performed to reduce the noise and redundant information within each slice;then a variational decomposition model was applied to keep the relevant component for our analysis;then three different segmentation methods were used to enhance the ischemic stroke area. The segmentation methods used were expectation maximization method, K-means and mean-shift. We determined a test to evaluate the performance of six observers (physicians) in a clinical environment with and without the aid of enhanced images. According to the opinion of the observers who participated in this study the enhanced images were particularly useful when displayed together with the original images. The overall sensitivity of the observer's analysis changed after the evaluation of the enhanced images with the expectation maximization method. The overall specificity also increased. The improvement was even more remarkable for the three least experienced physicians.
Functional knowledge integration is the initial and core phase of a design process. It is the key phase to ensure that the functional requirement of the design product can be appropriately complied with, and its resul...
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Functional knowledge integration is the initial and core phase of a design process. It is the key phase to ensure that the functional requirement of the design product can be appropriately complied with, and its result is also the rudiment of the subsequent detailed design work. If this important phase can be supported by an increasingly distributed resource environment, and be automated such that its completion requires less manual work, the efficiency of the design process would be largely improved and its ability to promote innovation would be enhanced. Therefore, this study involved a detailed analysis of the functional knowledge integration of the design process, as well as the proposal of a corresponding running model. Based on the model, a computational algorithm and an evaluating method were established to automate functional knowledge integration. A corresponding computer program was developed to prove the feasibility of this approach, and it was used to design a solarpowered wiper blade.
This study deals with the simulation modeling of a 250 MW capacity coal-based power plant at different load conditions. The plant under study is subcritical, reheating and regenerative type situated in northern part o...
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This study deals with the simulation modeling of a 250 MW capacity coal-based power plant at different load conditions. The plant under study is subcritical, reheating and regenerative type situated in northern part of India. At present, computer-based programming and advanced software used in simulation, modeling and optimization used in process industries playing an important role. The present work related with the semi-empirical modeling for thermal performance analysis of a coal-fired power plant. The model basically includes the mass, energy balance equations. A typical thermodynamic property relation with empirical correlations using steam bled pressure extracted from turbine at various points in plant has been used. The necessary data collected from plant and model are applied in a general programming form for plant analysis. The process-based simulation model with the integration of steam generator, turbine, pump, condenser and feedwater heaters in the plant has been successfully run using the MATLAB calculation tool. The validation of the model has been done by comparing overall plant efficiency, coal consumption rate and mass flow rate of steam at various load conditions for 250 MW capacity plant under operating conditions. The results achieved through simulation model are found to be satisfactory. It is expected that this simulation model will help out to those engineers and researchers who are dealing with the improvement of design, analysis and optimization of coal-fired power plant.
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is designed to provide an automatic mechanism for the allocation, configuration and management of IP addresses and TCP/IP protocol stack parameters of computers and devic...
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The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is designed to provide an automatic mechanism for the allocation, configuration and management of IP addresses and TCP/IP protocol stack parameters of computers and devices in IP networks. The important feature of DHCP is a "dynamic allocation" mechanism, which assigns an IP address to a client for a limited period of time (called a lease time). Therefore, a previously allocated IP address can automatically be assigned to another host by a DHCP server upon the expiration of the lease time if a host does not renew the use of an allocated IP address. This paper proposes a retrial queueing model to approximate the performability of the DHCP dynamic allocation mechanism. An efficient computational algorithm is developed to calculate the steady state probabilities of a continuous time discrete state Markov process. A comparison of our approximate model with a detailed simulation model of the DHCP dynamic allocation mechanism shows an excellent agreement between the analytical and the simulation results. The impact of the lease time parameter on the performability of the DHCP dynamic allocation mechanism is also illustrated through a numerical study. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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