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The Hidden Injuries Of Overloading 'Adt, Duane Buck, David J. Stucki
The Hidden Injuries Of Overloading 'Adt, Duane Buck, David J. Stucki
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The most commonly stated definition of abstract data type (ADT) is that it is a domain of values and the operations over that domain. So, for example, a language's built-in types, like int are seen to be ADTs. It is our opinion that a pure interpretation of this definition yields a semantics in which using an ADT is the same as using built-in types: the operations are side effect free and there is no concern over alias, shallow copy or synchronization problems. Unfortunately, the term abstract data type has over time been associated with at least three distinct meanings, and …
Reliability Confidence Intervals For Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico, William V. Harper, Thomas R. James, Ted G. Eschenbach
Reliability Confidence Intervals For Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico, William V. Harper, Thomas R. James, Ted G. Eschenbach
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An extensive study [Eschenbach and Harper (2006)] of offshore oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico with extensions to the northern seas of Alaska involved the estimation of the likelihood of oil spill volumes in the Gulf of Mexico for both pipeline and platform spills. This paper develops both maximum likelihood based reliability and percentile confidence intervals for the 3- parameter Weibull distribution. The statistical aspects are discussed along with applications of developed Excel VBA functions. The Excel routines are available free on the web at http://faculty.otterbein.edu/WHarper/. The functions are illustrated with Gulf of Mexico oil spill data.
Reliability Goodness Of Fit For Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico, William V. Harper, Thomas R. James, Ted G. Eschenbach
Reliability Goodness Of Fit For Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico, William V. Harper, Thomas R. James, Ted G. Eschenbach
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Eschenbach and Harper (2006) analyzed offshore oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico with extensions to the northern seas of Alaska. This involved multiple methods including assessing what statistical distribution adequately fits the data. Empirical distribution function (EDF) statistical procedures are powerful goodness of fit tests and also provide for good visual assessments. The most powerful of the current EDF methods is the Anderson-Darling test. This paper focuses on the Anderson-Darling EDF goodness of fit procedure for both the two and three parameter Weibull distribution that is often used in reliability analysis. Excel VBA code has been developed to compute …
Algebras Having Bases Consisting Entirely Of Units, Jeremy Moore
Algebras Having Bases Consisting Entirely Of Units, Jeremy Moore
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We introduce a hierarchy of notions about algebras having a basis B consisting entirely of units. Such a basis is called an invertible basis and algebras that have invertible bases are said to be invertible algebras...