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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 ...
The Effect of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher's Moral Hazard or the Team's Cost-Benefit Calculation?: A Comment
(Oxford University Press, 1998-10)
is no longer statistically significant. However, the point estimates are close to our prediction, which does not rely on moral hazard....
Logistics regression to determine the influence of Bean and Metzner's persistence factors as defined by the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) on nontraditional students
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
of Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition. The dependent variable was persistence. Data were analyzed using a validity panel, descriptive statistic analysis, chi square tests, and logistic regression. Chi square tests revealed four CCSSE items...
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...
Examining the impact of design variables and media richness on responses to product design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
-factorial experiment. A sample of 181 participants was used to test the study hypotheses. This study employed a between-subject design, and participants were randomly assigned to one of the eight experimental conditions. The results from statistical analysis...
Bounds on the tail probability of u-statistics and quadratic forms
(2011)
The authors announce a general tail estimate, called a decoupling inequality, for a symmetrized sum of non-linear k-correlations of n > k independent random variables.
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 35, number 03
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2013)
U.S. Baseline Briefing Book: Missouri Insert (2010)
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), University of Missouri-Columbia, 2010-03)
This report provides a detailed analysis of projections for Missouri agriculture and should be used in conjunction with the 2010 US Baseline Briefing Book (FAPRI-MU Report #01-10)....
Estimating population size with objective Bayesian methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Bayesian inference of discrete parameter, including population size, is sensitive to the choice of priors. In this dissertation I will develop objective priors for several population size parameters appeared in different ...
Bayesian fMRI data analysis and Bayesian optimal design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The present dissertation consists of the work done on two projects. As part of the first project, we develop methodology for Bayesian hierarchical multi-subject multiscale analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Regression analysis of clustered interval-censored failure time data with informative cluster size
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Correlated or clustered failure time data often occur in many research fields including epidemiological, geographical, sociological and medical studies. ...
Marginally modeling misaligned regions and handling masked failure causes with imprecision
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
For many datasets, multiple variables measured on (possibly differing) areal units are available. We wish to simultaneously model both 1) the spatial relations within each variable, and 2) the relations between variables. ...
Bayesian variable selection in parametric and semiparametric high dimensional survival analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In this dissertation, we propose several Bayesian variable selection schemes for Bayesian parametric and semiparametric survival models for right-censored survival data. In the rst chapter we introduce a special shrinkage ...
Semiparametric transformation models for panel count data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Panel count data arise in event history studies. It may not be feasible to monitor subjects continuously and recurrent events can be observed only at ...
The effect of organizational structure on firm first day underpricing, long-term performance : evidence from U.S. biotech initial public offerings from 1996 to 2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
public offerings (IPOs) during 1996 to 2004, we ask whether firms with more divisional organizational structure: Hybrid organizational structure (HYBR) and Pure divisional organizational structure (DVS) perform differently from those with traditional...
The relationship between servant leadership of principals and beginning teacher job satisfaction and intent to stay
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
of certification. The study yielded a high rate of response from survey participants. Data analysis revealed a positive perception by beginning teachers of their principals' servant leadership characteristics. Correlations showed a statistically significant...
Association rule mining in cooperative research
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, especially the relationships between the company's strategies, members' characteristics, and the potential free riding problem. The data mining methods are evaluated and compared with the traditional statistics model to find the differences and similarities...
The use of a food based social network site in culinary education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
this study was able to conclude that there is a statistically significant difference between value of the paper based system and value of the Spicipe system. Students showed a strong preference for the social network system and these results held true across...
A longitudinal behavior genetic model for ordered categorical variables
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
continuous variables. Variances of the growth factors were decomposed into genetic and environmental components. In simulation analyses, parameters were successfully estimated in all conditions although estimates of standard errors were biased and statistical...
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...