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Domestic Violence Victim's Services — A Preliminary Analysis
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2006)
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 ...
Testing Formal Models of Direct Democracy
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Presentation of voting statistics and democratic models....
The influence of statistical and narrative evidence on consumer search for additional product information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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...
Bayesian methods on selected topics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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...
Verifying risk-based inspection intervals based on historical records and statistical analysis of bridge files
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Public Attitudes on State Election Administration, Goals, and Reforms*
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
While few would disagree that elections
serve a fundamental role in democracy, there
is considerable debate regarding the rules by
which elections should be conducted. State
and local officials responsible for carrying
out ...
Higher-order thinking in the high-stakes accountability era : linking student engagement and standardized test performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study attempted to statistically test whether a nexus exists between student engagement levels within schools that elect to incorporate the Instructional Practices...
The State of Early Childhood Programs: 2009
(Center for Family Policy & Research, 2009)
in the likelihood children will some day engage in criminal activity or be dependent on public welfare programs....
Social and Economic Trends in Missouri
(University of Missouri Extension, 2009)
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...
Speed-based safety analysis for work zones
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
is usually considered as the measures of effectiveness in evaluating speed management strategies. In order to determine the significance of the improvements of the measure of effectiveness, statistical methodology is applied. However, in spite of the wide use...
Bayesian spatial analysis with application to the Missouri Ozark Forest ecosystem project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Bayesian hierarchical framework brings more flexibility by accounting for variation from different levels and improves the estimation of parameters ...
Statistical and stochastic results for three dimensional fluids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
In part I, we show that the longitudinal correlation function for homogeneous and isotropic turbulence remains negative in an interval of time, up to Galerkin approximation. Part II covers the existence and uniqueness of ...
Profiles of Missouri: Obesity Rate in Missouri
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2005)
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 ...
Objective Bayesian inference for stress-strength models and Bayesian ANOVA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
Regression analysis of clustered interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
Nonparametric analysis of interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Preliminary Assessment of Counter-cyclical Payment (CCP) Options
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000-09)
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.
Statistical image analysis of photoactivated localization microscopy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
. In this study, we used statistical method to analyze the images of photoactived localization microscopy. The 2D guassian fitting was used to obtain the centriod of each fluorescent molecule. The Ripley K value was calculated to measure the association...
Statistical analysis of length-biased and right-censored data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
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...
An evaluation of the Missouri public high school personal finance course graduation requirement : is there a transfer of knowledge?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This researcher performed an evaluation of the Missouri public high school personal finance graduation requirement. Sophomore, junior, and senior students at a Missouri public...