The purpose of this brief is to provide an overview of domestic violence in Missouri and discuss how well domestic violence records are tracked in the justice system. This note compares how Missouri's records on domestic ...

This map shows the locations of buildings on campus, labeled by number. The map also shows downtown Columbia with streets labeled. the back of the map lists information regarding rooms and apartments available to rent. ...

This OSEDA presentation discusses social and economic trends in the United States and Missouri particularly with an emphasis on labor statistics, unemployment rates, renewable energy and green economy, cheetah firms, and general population...

methods for both nonparametric and semiparametric estimations. In this thesis, we will exploit these unique aspects and discuss the statistical analysis of length-biased and right-censored data. The first part of this dissertation discusses a goodness...

focuses on the statistical process control, we proposed an adaptive approach for the multivariate CUSUM statistical process control chart for signaling a range of location shifts. This method is based on the multivariate CUSUM control chart proposed...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Bayesian hierarchical framework brings more flexibility by accounting for variation from different levels and improves the estimation of parameters as ...

This thesis considers the problem of treatment comparisons when only interval-censored failure time data are available. This type of data occurs frequently in clinical trials and other follow-up studies. We study several ...

Bayesian methods are widely adopted nowadays in statistical analysis. It is especially useful for the statistical inference of complex models or hierarchical models, for which the frequentist methods are usually difficult to be applied. Though as a...

Presentation of voting statistics and democratic models....

First of all, for estimating the reliabilities in Weibull stress-strength models, some matching priors are derived based on a modi ed pro le likelihood. Simulation studies show that these matching priors perform well with ...

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The purpose of this 2 X 2, between-subjects experiment is to use the model of Information Search Process (ISP) to test the effects of two common message features used in electronic word-of-mouth: statistical valence (positive/negative) and narrative...

Includes foreign grain production and consumption as well as supply, export or import, and stocks vs. farm price for corn, soybeans and wheat in the decade 1990-2000.

Clustered failure time data occur when the failure times of interest are clustered into small groups, while interval censoring occurs when the event of interest cannot be observed directly and is only known to have occurred ...

This map shows the locations of buildings on campus, labeled by letter and number. On the reverse of the main map appears lists of important buildings to see when visiting campus and includes a short description of each ...

Panel count data are one type of event-history data concerning recurrent events. Ideally for an event-history study, subjects should be monitored continuously, so for the events that may happen recurrently over time, the ...

According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), obesity rates in all but one of our fifty U.S. states rose last year at an alarming rate (the exception is Oregon, where the rate remained the same ...