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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....
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
What Missouri Thinks: An Examination of Public Attitudes
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
of Missourians on a set of important political, economic, and social issues, researchers at the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs examined results from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey (CCES). This nationally-representative public opinion...
State Regulation of Trucking: The Policy Impact of Differential Speed Limits
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
A Kernel-Based Spectral Model for Non-Gaussian Spatio-Temporal Processes
(Statistical Modelling, 2002)
Spatio-temporal processes can often be written as hierarchical state-space processes. In situations with complicated dynamics such as wave propagation, it is difficult to parameterize state transition functions for ...
Accounting for Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis: The Strengths and Limitations of Hierarchical Statistical Modeling
(Ecological Society of America, 2009)
and boundary conditions. Only then can we be confident in the scientific inferences and forecasts made from an analysis. Probability and statistics provide a framework that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty. Given the complexities of ecological...
Universal Optimality in Balanced Uniform Crossover Design
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2003)
Kunert [Ann. Statist. 12 (1984) 1006-1017] proved that, in the class of repeated measurement designs based on t treatments, p = t periods and n = λt experimental units, a balanced uniform design is universally optimal
for ...
Public perceptions of the environment: The role of mass media [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2008)
; 1973-2006) reveals a positive correlation between the amount of environmental news broadcasts in the U.S. and American public concern for the natural environment. Statistical analysis of the 2006 and 2007 Collaborative Congressional Election Studies, a...
Assessing the quality of care in nursing homes through Bayesian belief networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The need to properly assess, and thus, improve the quality of care in nursing homes is a growing concern. This research proposes Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) as a modeling tool to perform such assessments. Variables ...
Change in high-risk behaviors during the first college year categorized by gender, first-generation status, and admission index demographics as measured by the CIRP and YFCY
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
cigarettes, drinking beer, drinking wine or liquor, feeling depressed, and feeling overwhelmed. This quantitative study measured the change in high-risk behaviors in one cohort of students at a moderately selective Midwestern, four-year public, Masters I...
Multiresolution Models for Nonstationary Spatial Covariance Functions
(Statistical Modelling, 2002)
Many geophysical and environmental problems depend on estimating a spatial process that has nonstationary structure. A nonstationary model is proposed based on the spatial field being a linear combination of a multiresolution ...
Public library outreach as a function of staffing and metropolitan location.
(Library & Information Science Research, 2004)
Library literature suggests that staffing and metropolitan status may affect a public library’s provision of outreach efforts. Data from a 1999 survey of Arizona public library service outlets do not support the role of metropolitan status...