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Acidity Of Silica-Alumina Catalysts By Amine Titration Using Hammett Indicators And Ft-Ir Study Of Pyridine Adsorption, Mürüvvet Yurdakoç, Mehmet Akçay, Yalçin Tonbul, Kadi̇r Yurdakoç Jan 1999

Acidity Of Silica-Alumina Catalysts By Amine Titration Using Hammett Indicators And Ft-Ir Study Of Pyridine Adsorption, Mürüvvet Yurdakoç, Mehmet Akçay, Yalçin Tonbul, Kadi̇r Yurdakoç

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

In this study, characterization and surface acidity of Siral (SiO_2-Al_2O_3) compounds were investigated with Hammett acidity functions, the n-butylamine titration method and FTIR analysis of the spectra of pyridine adsorption. All the samples had an acid strength of H_0\leq+2.8. The calculated total amount of acid of the samples increased with the increase in SiO_2 content up to Siral 40 and then decreased sharply in the case of Siral 80. Maximum amount of acidity was observed in the case of Siral 40 as 1.37mmole/g. No evidence was found for a band at 1540 cm^{-1} on Pural indicating that there were no …

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Mass Spectral Studies Of Some Triorganotin Derivatives Containing Carboxylates, Moazzam Hussain Bhatti, Sagib Ali, Muhammad Mazhar, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Azi̇z Chaudhary Jan 1999

Mass Spectral Studies Of Some Triorganotin Derivatives Containing Carboxylates, Moazzam Hussain Bhatti, Sagib Ali, Muhammad Mazhar, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Azi̇z Chaudhary

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The mass spectra of 16 triorganotin compounds having the general formula R_3SnL where R= CH_3, C_4H_9, C_6H_5, C_6H_{11} and L=trans-3-(2-furanyl)-2-propenoate, trans-m-methyl cinnamate, 2-(2,3-dimethylphenyl)aminobenzoate and trans-3-(2-thienyl)-2- propenoate, were investigated. The possible fragmentation pattern is discussed in detail.

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Chemical Investigation Of The Sponge Verongia Aerophoba, Zeynep Aydoğmuş, Nebi̇ye Ersoy, Sedat İmre Jan 1999

Chemical Investigation Of The Sponge Verongia Aerophoba, Zeynep Aydoğmuş, Nebi̇ye Ersoy, Sedat İmre

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The solvent effect on Verongia aerophoba metabolites during the extraction and isolation processes were examined in this study. A major compound (6), a stereoisomer of fistularin-3, and a new compound (2) were isolated from the acetone extract of dried and ethanol extract of fresh V. aerophoba samples respectively. The structures of these metabolites were elucidated using spectroscopic methods.

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Development Of Black Cobalt Selective Absorber On Copper For Solar Collectors, Fi̇gen Kadirgan, Mete Söhmen Jan 1999

Development Of Black Cobalt Selective Absorber On Copper For Solar Collectors, Fi̇gen Kadirgan, Mete Söhmen

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

An eletrolyte is proposed for the deposition of black cobalt selective absorber coating on copper plate. The influence of the electrolyte composition and operating parameters on the properties of black cobalt coatings including optical properties were studied. The optimum conditions to obtain a high absorptance/emittance ratio are described.

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Effect Of Temperature On The Electrooxidation Of Some Organic Molecules On Pt Doped Conducting Polymer Coated Electrodes, İpek Beceri̇k, Fehmi̇ Fiçicioğlu, Fi̇gen Kadirgan Jan 1999

Effect Of Temperature On The Electrooxidation Of Some Organic Molecules On Pt Doped Conducting Polymer Coated Electrodes, İpek Beceri̇k, Fehmi̇ Fiçicioğlu, Fi̇gen Kadirgan

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Polymer modified electrodes are of importance as possible electrocatalysts for various electrode reactions, i.e., platinum incorporated into polypyrrole or polyaniline films are known to be good systems for the electrooxidation of various organic molecules. In this study, the effect of temperature on the electrooxidation of D. glucose and methanol on Pt doped films was investigated, apparent activation energies were calculated and the results were evaluated.

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Electrochemical Reduction Of Methyl Cinnamate In The Presence Of 1,3-Bis(4-Methyl Phenylsulphonyloxy)Propane, Mustafa Güllü Jan 1999

Electrochemical Reduction Of Methyl Cinnamate In The Presence Of 1,3-Bis(4-Methyl Phenylsulphonyloxy)Propane, Mustafa Güllü

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Electrochemical reduction of methyl cinnamate in the presence of a dielectrophile, such as 1,3-bis(4-methyl phenylsulphonyloxy)propane gives two major products: trans- (\pm) methyl 2-phenylcyclopentanecarboxylate and trans- (\pm) methyl 2,3-diphenyl-5-oxo-cyclopentanecarboxylate. The ratio of products basically depends on the electrolysis conditions.

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Comparative Mechanistic Studies On The Oxidation Of Aromatic And Aliphatic Hydroxyl Derivatives In An Alkaline Medium At Preanodized Pt, Au And Pt/Au Electrodes In Presence Of Redox Mediators, Sasha Kalcheva, Philip Iotov Jan 1999

Comparative Mechanistic Studies On The Oxidation Of Aromatic And Aliphatic Hydroxyl Derivatives In An Alkaline Medium At Preanodized Pt, Au And Pt/Au Electrodes In Presence Of Redox Mediators, Sasha Kalcheva, Philip Iotov

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The role of redox mediators obtained from Pt, Au, and Pt/Au electrodes in the process of electrocatalytic oxidation of aromatic/aliphatic hydroxyl derivatives in an alkaline medium has been studied by applying cyclic voltammetry. Phenol and glycerol were used as aromatic and aliphatic hydroxyl derivatives in the electrochemical oxidation experiments. The results revealed that the presence of redox mediators formed by preliminary electrode anodization is crucial for the process of oxidation of aromatic compounds and imposes a different oxidation route for the aliphatic hydroxyl derivatives. The effect of preanodization has been related to the formation and dissolution of the corresponding higher …

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Electrochemical Characterization Of Al_2 O_3 -Ni Thin Film Selective Surface On Aluminium, Fi̇gen Kadirgan, Ewa Wackelgard, Mete Söhmen Jan 1999

Electrochemical Characterization Of Al_2 O_3 -Ni Thin Film Selective Surface On Aluminium, Fi̇gen Kadirgan, Ewa Wackelgard, Mete Söhmen

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Solar thermal collectors represent a widely used type of system for the conversion of solar energy. In order to produce selective coatings on aluminium substrates to be used as absorber plates in high efficiency solar collectors, nickel pigmentation was applied to anodically oxidised surfaces. Electrochemical dc methods are used to study the oxidation of aluminium as functions of the following electrolysis conditions: applied current, pH, temperature and concentration of electrolyte. The properties of the oxidised aluminium surfaces are investigated by cyclic voltammetry. Nickel pigmentation of porous aluminium surfaces was also performed as a function of electrochemical pigmentation conditions by ac …

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The Effects Of Detergent Pollution On The Corrosion Of Iron And Aluminium, Si̇bel Zor, B. Yazici, M. Erbi̇l Jan 1999

The Effects Of Detergent Pollution On The Corrosion Of Iron And Aluminium, Si̇bel Zor, B. Yazici, M. Erbi̇l

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The current-potential values were measured with iron or aluminium electrodes in solutions of 3.5% NaCl containing 30, 150, 300 ppm linear alkylbenzene (LAB) and detergents (LAS) at pH8. Polarization resistances (Rp) were determined using the values of current and potentials. The corrosion rates of iron and aluminium were determined in 2 and 4 hour intervals using the Mansfeld-Oldham equation based on the Stern-Geary and Butler-Volmer equations.

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Reactions Of N-Aminopyrimidine Derivatives With 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds, Zülbi̇ye Önal, Behzat Altural Jan 1999

Reactions Of N-Aminopyrimidine Derivatives With 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds, Zülbi̇ye Önal, Behzat Altural

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The reactions of 1-Amino-pyrimidine derivatives (1) and some 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds (2) were realized in the presence of p-toluensulfonic acid catalyst to give convenient enamine (3) and/or imine derivatives (4). In the same way, the enamine (5) and/or imine derivatives (6) were synthesized using (1) and 1,3-indanedione which is one of the different 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. The molecular structures of all the prepared compounds were determined by ^1H-nmr, ^{13}C-nmr, i.r. spectra and elemental analyses, and were drawn by taking imine-enamine tautomerism into account.

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Autocatalytic Reduction Of Dichloro 5, 10, 15, 20 Tetraphenylporphinatoplatinum(Iv) By 1-Methylimidazole, F. Ece Bulak Jan 1999

Autocatalytic Reduction Of Dichloro 5, 10, 15, 20 Tetraphenylporphinatoplatinum(Iv) By 1-Methylimidazole, F. Ece Bulak

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

It was observed that in toluene solution, excess 1-methyl-imidazole (Melm) reduces dichloro 5, 10, 15, 20 tetraphenyl-porphinatoplatinum(IV) (PtTPPCl_2) to tetraphenylporphinato-platinum(II) (PtTPP) autocatalytically (Fig. 1). There was no Pt(III) intermediate or 1-methylimidazole radical detected by Electron Resonance Spectroscopy (ESR) at 25°C. The reaction was found to be autocatalyzed by the PtTPP product when the 1-methylimidazole to PtTPPCl_2 concentration ratio is about 10^4 or more. From the data obtained it is reasonable to suppose that aggregation of the PtTPP product with PtTPPCl_2 plays an important role in this reduction process.

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A Modified Potentiometric Method For The Estimation Of Phenol In Aqueous Systems, Farhat Huma, Muhammad Jaffar, Khalid Masud Jan 1999

A Modified Potentiometric Method For The Estimation Of Phenol In Aqueous Systems, Farhat Huma, Muhammad Jaffar, Khalid Masud

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A modified potentiometric titration is proposed for the estimation of phenol in aqueous systems. The method is evolved on the basis of a critical dependence of pH on log V rather than simple V, as used in conventional potentiometric titrations. The method incorporates titrants in a concentration range several orders of magnitude greater than that of phenol in the aqueous phase. Derivative potentiometric curves so obtained provide a clear exposition of the equivalence point and the overall error is found to be between \pm 1.0 and 1.5%. The range of phenol concentration investigated was from 10^{-2} to 10^{-3} M. and …

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Electrochemical Behaviour Of Hexa[4-(Phenylazo) Phenoxy]Cyclotriphasphazene, Necati̇ Menek, Günseli̇ Turgut, Mustafa Odabaşioğlu Jan 1999

Electrochemical Behaviour Of Hexa[4-(Phenylazo) Phenoxy]Cyclotriphasphazene, Necati̇ Menek, Günseli̇ Turgut, Mustafa Odabaşioğlu

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The polarographic and voltammetric behaviour of hexa[4-(phenylazo)phenoxy]cyclotriphasphazene in tetrahydrofuran-water 50% (v/v) was studied at room temperature using various electrochemical techniques. In this study, the reduction of the azo group to the amino group of the organophosphazenes compound was observed as the electrode reaction. An electrode reaction mechanism was suggested for the compound.

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Synthesis, Structural And Thermal Studies Of Titanium(Iv) Complexes Of N-Alkyl Phenothiazines, Jaldappa Seetharamappa, Boregowda Keshavan Jan 1999

Synthesis, Structural And Thermal Studies Of Titanium(Iv) Complexes Of N-Alkyl Phenothiazines, Jaldappa Seetharamappa, Boregowda Keshavan

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

New coordination compounds of the type [Ti(C_2O_4)_2L]2H_2O where L=N-alkyl phenothiazines (NAPs) were synthesised and characterised by elemental analyses, molar conductance, magnetic, thermal and spectral data. The spectral data suggest the bidentate nature of NAPs in the complexes. An octahedral structure is proposed for all the complexes. Thermal studies were used to evaluate the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters.

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Winchell Papers Jan 1999

Winchell Papers

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Abstracts from the Winchell Papers given at the 67th Annual Meeting for the Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science.

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Cambrian And Deeper Tests Of Kentucky, 1999 Includes Proposed Tests (Permitted Locations), Brandon C. Nuttall Jan 1999

Cambrian And Deeper Tests Of Kentucky, 1999 Includes Proposed Tests (Permitted Locations), Brandon C. Nuttall

Map and Chart--KGS

No abstract provided.

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Mass Flux Of Agricultural Nonpoint-Source Pollutants In A Conduit-Flow-Dominated Karst Aquifer, Logan County, Kentucky, James C. Currens Jan 1999

Mass Flux Of Agricultural Nonpoint-Source Pollutants In A Conduit-Flow-Dominated Karst Aquifer, Logan County, Kentucky, James C. Currens

Report of Investigations--KGS

Changes in water quality in a karst ground-water basin used intensively for agriculture are being measured before, during, and after the implementation of best management practices (BMP’s) and other management practices, to determine the success of such programs in protecting ground water. The study was divided into three phases. The results of the first two phases are included in this report and cover research conducted between August 1990 and October 1994. During phase I of the study the overall ground-water quality of the basin and its hydrogeology were investigated. Phase II began monitoring the water quality at Pleasant Grove Spring …

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Ground-Water Quality In Kentucky: Fluoride, Philip G. Conrad, Daniel I. Carey, James S. Webb, James S. Dinger, R. Stephen Fisher, Matthew J. Mccourt Jan 1999

Ground-Water Quality In Kentucky: Fluoride, Philip G. Conrad, Daniel I. Carey, James S. Webb, James S. Dinger, R. Stephen Fisher, Matthew J. Mccourt

Information Circular--KGS

Fluoride (F-) is an ion of the element fluorine, and is a natural component in most water resources. According to Hem (1989), fluoride concentrations in fresh water are generally less than 1 mg/L (milligrams per liter), and the concentration of fluoride in the world's oceans is about 1.3 mg/L. The source of most fluoride in natural fresh-water resources is various rocks and minerals in bedrock and sediments.

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Weak Localization In Disordered Two-Dimensional Crystals With Half-Filled Band, E.P. Nakhmedov, T. Kaya Jan 1999

Weak Localization In Disordered Two-Dimensional Crystals With Half-Filled Band, E.P. Nakhmedov, T. Kaya

Turkish Journal of Physics

Effect of subtitutional impurities on electron localization in two dimensional (2D) lattice near the middle of the band is studied. Calculation of density of the electronic states, \rho (\varepsilon ), increases logaritmically in the middle of the band. This singularity in the density of states of noninteracting electron gas on lattice gives rise to anomalous dependencies of thermodynamic quantities on the temperature. The quantum correction to the conductivity of a nonintreracting electron gas due to Umklapp electron--impurity scattering is calculated. This correction to the conductivity is shown to compete with that from the localization corrrection for a Normal scattering process. …

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Mpijava: An Object-Oriented Java Interface To Mpi, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung Hoon Ko Jan 1999

Mpijava: An Object-Oriented Java Interface To Mpi, Mark Baker, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung Hoon Ko

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

A basic prerequisite for parallel programming is a good communication API. The recent interest in using Java for scientific and engineering application has led to several international efforts to produce a message passing interface to support parallel computation. In this paper we describe and then discuss the syntax, functionality and performance of one such interface, mpiJava, an object-oriented Java interface to MPI. We first discuss the design of the mpiJava API and the issues associated with its development. We then move on to briefly outline the steps necessary to 'port' mpiJava onto a range of operating systems, including Windows NT, …

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Building Distributed Systems For The Pragmatic Object Web, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Tomasz Haupt Jan 1999

Building Distributed Systems For The Pragmatic Object Web, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Tomasz Haupt

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

We review the growing power and capability of commodity computing and communication technologies largely driven by commercial distributed information systems. These systems are built from CORBA, Microsoft's COM, JavaBeans, and rapidly advancing Web approaches. One can abstract these to a three-tier model with largely independent clients connected to a distributed network of servers. The latter host various services including object and relational databases and of course parallel and sequential computing. High performance can be obtained by combining concurrency at the middle server tier with optimized parallel back end services. The resultant system combines the needed performance for large-scale HPCC applications …

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Mpijava 1.2: Api Specification, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung-Hoon Ko, Sang Lim Jan 1999

Mpijava 1.2: Api Specification, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey C. Fox, Sung-Hoon Ko, Sang Lim

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

This document defines the API of mpiJava, a Java language binding for MPI 1.1. The document is not a standalone specification of the behaviour of MPI--it is meant to be read in conjunction with the MPI standard document [2]. Subsections are laid out in the same way as in the standard document, to allow cross-referencing. Where the mpiJava binding makes no significant change to a particular section of the standard document, we will just note here that there are no special issues for the Java binding. This does not mean that the corresponding section of the standard is irrelevant to …

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Using Webhla To Integrate Hpc Fms Modules With Web/Commodity Based Distributed Object Technologies Of Corba, Java, Com And Xml, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Hasan T. Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin-Ozdemir, Tom A. Pulikal, Krishnan Rangarajan, Ankur Sood Jan 1999

Using Webhla To Integrate Hpc Fms Modules With Web/Commodity Based Distributed Object Technologies Of Corba, Java, Com And Xml, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Ganesh Krishnamurthy, Hasan T. Ozdemir, Zeynep Odcikin-Ozdemir, Tom A. Pulikal, Krishnan Rangarajan, Ankur Sood

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

HLA standards for interoperability between various DoD Modeling and Simulation paradigms are being enforced in parallel with the rapid onset of new Object Web / Commodity standards for distributed objects and componentware, emergent at the crossroads of CORBA, COM, Java, and XML technologies. WebHLA explores synergies between and integrates both trends by offering Object Web based implementation of the HLA framework. Our goal is to deliver a uniform platform that facilitates conversion of legacy codes to and development of new codes in compliance with HLA, HPC and Object Web standards. We outline here the overall design of WebHLA, we summarize …

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Internetics: Technologies, Applications And Academic Field, Or, Parallel Computing And Computational Science Do Not Quite Work, Geoffrey C. Fox Jan 1999

Internetics: Technologies, Applications And Academic Field, Or, Parallel Computing And Computational Science Do Not Quite Work, Geoffrey C. Fox

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

Ten years ago, we were all sure that parallel computing technology and the interdisciplinary academic field of computational science would be center pieces of both academic and economic growth. We show that this insight was, in principle, correct but was an incomplete vision for large-scale computation implies both increased computer power and increasing numbers of users and applications. Parallel computing undoubtedly works on essentially all problems, but we were unable to produce deployable software systems. Further, few industries could achieve adequate return to justify investment in parallel computers, except in a few areas such as databases. Computational science is the …

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A Hierarchical Analysis Approach For High Performance Computing And Communication Applications, Salim Hariri, Pramod Varshney, Luying Zhou, Vinod V. Menon, Shihab Ghaya Jan 1999

A Hierarchical Analysis Approach For High Performance Computing And Communication Applications, Salim Hariri, Pramod Varshney, Luying Zhou, Vinod V. Menon, Shihab Ghaya

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

The proliferation of high performance computers and high-speed networks has made parallel and distributed computing feasible and cost-effective on High Performance Computing and Communication Systems (HPCC). However, the design, analysis and development of parallel and distributed applications on such computing systems are still very challenging tasks. Therefore, there is a great need for an integrated multilevel analysis methodology to assist in designing and analyzing the performance of both existing and proposed systems. Currently, there are no comprehensive analysis methods that address such diverse needs. This paper presents a three-level hierarchical modeling approach for analyzing the end-to-end performance of an application …

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A Quantile‐Based Approach For Relative Efficiency Measurement, Paul M. Griffin, Paul H. Kvam Jan 1999

A Quantile‐Based Approach For Relative Efficiency Measurement, Paul M. Griffin, Paul H. Kvam

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Two popular approaches for efficiency measurement are a non‐stochastic approach called data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a parametric approach called stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Both approaches have modeling difficulty, particularly for ranking firm efficiencies. In this paper, a new parametric approach using quantile statistics is developed. The quantile statistic relies less on the stochastic model than SFA methods, and accounts for a firm's relationship to the other firms in the study by acknowledging the firm's influence on the empirical model, and its relationship, in terms of similarity of input levels, to the other firms.

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Fisher Information In Weighted Distributions, Satish Iyengar, Paul H. Kvam, Harshinder Singh Jan 1999

Fisher Information In Weighted Distributions, Satish Iyengar, Paul H. Kvam, Harshinder Singh

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Standard inference procedures assume a random sample from a population with density fμ(x) for estimating the parameter μ. However, there are many applications in which the available data are a biased sample instead. Fisher modeled biased sampling using a weight function w(x) ¸ 0, and constructed a weighted distribution with a density fμw(x) that is proportional to w(x)fμ(x). In this paper, we assume that fμ(x) belongs to an exponential family, and study the Fisher information about μ in observations obtained from some commonly arising weighted distributions: (i) the kth order …

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Bayes Estimation Of A Distribution Function Using Ranked Set Samples, Paul H. Kvam, Ram C. Tiwari Jan 1999

Bayes Estimation Of A Distribution Function Using Ranked Set Samples, Paul H. Kvam, Ram C. Tiwari

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Aranked set sample (RSS), if not balanced, is simply a sample of independent order statistics generated from the same underlying distribution F. Kvam and Samaniego (1994) derived maximum likelihood estimates of F for a general RSS. In many applications, including some in the environmental sciences, prior information about F is available to supplement the data-based inference. In such cases, Bayes estimators should be considered for improved estimation. Bayes estimation (using the squared error loss function) of the unknown distribution function F is investigated with such samples. Additionally, the Bayes generalized maximum likelihood estimator (GMLE) is derived. An iterative scheme based …

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Nonparametric Estimation Of The Survival Function Based On Censored Data With Additional Observations From The Residual Distribution, Paul Kvam, Harshinder Singh, Ram C. Tiwari Jan 1999

Nonparametric Estimation Of The Survival Function Based On Censored Data With Additional Observations From The Residual Distribution, Paul Kvam, Harshinder Singh, Ram C. Tiwari

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

We derive the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) of the distribution of the test items using a random, right-censored sample combined with an additional right-censored, residual-lifetime sample in which only lifetimes past a known, fixed time are collected. This framework is suited for samples for which individual test data are combined with left-truncated and randomly censored data from an operating environment. The NPMLE of the survival function using the combined sample is identical to the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator only up to the time at which the test items corresponding to the residual sample were known to survive. The limiting distribution …

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A Unified Approach To Difference Sets With Gcd(V, N) > 1, James A. Davis, Jonathan Jedwab Jan 1999

A Unified Approach To Difference Sets With Gcd(V, N) > 1, James A. Davis, Jonathan Jedwab

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

The five known families of difference sets whose parameters (v, k, λ; n) satisfy the condition gcd(v,n) > 1 are the McFarland, Spence, Davis-Jedwab, Hadamard and Chen families. We survey recent work which uses recursive techniques to unify these difference set families, placing particular emphasis on examples. This unified approach has also proved useful for studying semi-regular relative difference sets and for constructing new symmetric designs.

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