Seismic Hazard and Extreme Motions -- Data Needs for Improved Seismic Hazard Analysis -- Capturing and Limiting Groundmotion Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard Assessment -- Long-Period Ground Motions from Digital Acceleration Recordings: A New Era in Engineering Seismology -- Observed Ground Motions, Extreme Ground Motions, and Physical Limits to Ground Motions -- Engineering Uses of Strong Motion …
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
INTRODUCTION -- Unique Features of the Book -- Practical Strategies and Research Base -- An Interdisciplinary Approach -- A “Paper Mentor” Purpose -- A Transitions Perspective -- A Career-Wide Purpose -- Rationale for the Book -- Expectations for Publishing -- Increases in Educational Attainment -- Needs of Academic Authors -- Qualifications of Instructors -- Audience for the Work -- Organi…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead. .Open AccessThis ICME-13 Topical Survey provides a review of recent research into statistics education, with a focus on empirical research published in established educational journals and on the proceedings of important conferences on statistics educatio…
Part I Statistical Interpretation of Test/Exam Results -- 1 On Average: How good are they? -- 2 On Percentage: How much are there? -- 3 On Standard Deviation: How different are they? -- 4 On Difference: Is that big enough? -- 5 On Correlation: What is between them? -- 6 On Regression: How much does it depend? -- 7 On Multiple Regression: What is the future? -- 8 On Ranking: Who is the fairest o…
Single Stream Networks -- Background -- The Negative Feedback Network -- Peer-Inhibitory Neurons -- Multiple Cause Data -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Topology Preserving Maps -- Maximum Likelihood Hebbian Learning -- Dual Stream Networks -- Two Neural Networks for Canonical Correlation Analysis -- Alternative Derivations of CCA Networks -- Kernel and Nonlinear Correlations -- Exploratory Corr…
Finite Order Vector Autoregressive Processes -- Stable Vector Autoregressive Processes -- Estimation of Vector Autoregressive Processes -- VAR Order Selection and Checking the Model Adequacy -- VAR Processes with Parameter Constraints -- Cointegrated Processes -- Vector Error Correction Models -- Estimation of Vector Error Correction Models -- Specification of VECMs -- Structural and Conditiona…
Systems of Containers and Enumeration Problems -- Some Heuristic Analysis of Local Search Algorithms for SAT Problems -- Clustering in Stochastic Asynchronous Algorithms for Distributed Simulations -- On Construction of the Set of Irreducible Partial Covers -- Recent Advances in Multiobjective Optimization -- Polynomial Time Checking for Generation of Finite Distributions of Rational Probabilit…
Switching and Control -- From Feedback Control to Complexity Management: A Personal Perspective -- Convex Cones, Lyapunov Functions, and the Stability of Switched Linear Systems -- Survey of Explicit Approaches to Constrained Optimal Control -- Gaussian Processes -- Analysis of Some Methods for Reduced Rank Gaussian Process Regression -- Filtered Gaussian Processes for Learning with Large Data-…
Invited Talks -- Data Analysis in the Life Sciences — Sparking Ideas — -- Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing (and Vice Versa?) -- Statistical Relational Learning: An Inductive Logic Programming Perspective -- Recent Advances in Mining Time Series Data -- Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce -- Data Streams and Data Synopses for Massive D…