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The Lost Cause Ideology And Civil War Memory At The Semicentennial: A Look, Patrick Burkhardt May 2011

The Lost Cause Ideology And Civil War Memory At The Semicentennial: A Look, Patrick Burkhardt

The Confluence (2009-2020)

A half-century after the end of the Civil War, sectional tensions still existed in St. Louis. Patrick Burkhardt suggests that the Lost Cause ideology was alive and well in St. Louis, as revealed by the argument over erecting a new Confederate monument in Forest Park.

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Conflict And Division Within The Presbyterian Church, Katie Bava May 2011

Conflict And Division Within The Presbyterian Church, Katie Bava

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Like many Protestant denominations, the Presbyterian Church split over the "peculiar institution." In St. Charles, Missouri, this division became particularly acute when it came to control of property. Katherine Bava examines a case file from the St. Charles Circuit Court that involves this division, the Loyalty Oath, and the Board of Trustees of Lindenwood Female College.

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Experience Of The Civil War By The School Sisters Of Notre Dame In Washington, Missouri, Carol Marie Wildt May 2011

Experience Of The Civil War By The School Sisters Of Notre Dame In Washington, Missouri, Carol Marie Wildt

The Confluence (2009-2020)

This diary recounts an eyewitness account of "Price's Raid" in 1864 and the experience of religious leaders who stayed behind when Unionists fled Washington, Missouri.

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The Iowa Boys Winter In St. Louis, 1861-1862, David Straight May 2011

The Iowa Boys Winter In St. Louis, 1861-1862, David Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Letters from men at Benton Barracks in St. Louis offer unique insights into the minds of men involved in the Civil War. David Straight looks at these letters and their stationary.

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“Making War On Women” And Women Making War: Confederate Women Imprisoned In St. Louis During The Civil War, Thomas Curran May 2011

“Making War On Women” And Women Making War: Confederate Women Imprisoned In St. Louis During The Civil War, Thomas Curran

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Soldiers in blue and gray weren’t the only ones fighting in the Civil War. Thomas Curran details the efforts of pro-Confederate women who worked as spies, and the efforts by the Union military to counter their activities.

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From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith May 2011

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.

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"Shall We Be One Strong United People...", Miranda Rectenwald, Sonya Rooney May 2011

"Shall We Be One Strong United People...", Miranda Rectenwald, Sonya Rooney

The Confluence (2009-2020)

This selection of diary entries, letters, and sermons by Unitarian minister William Greenleaf offers insights into the thinking of pro-Union leaders in St. Louis who were also antislavery.

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Spring/Summer 2011, Full Issue May 2011

Spring/Summer 2011, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.

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Customer Satisfaction Index Of Singapore 2011: Q1 Results, Institute Of Service Excellence, Smu May 2011

Customer Satisfaction Index Of Singapore 2011: Q1 Results, Institute Of Service Excellence, Smu

Research Collection Institute of Service Excellence (2007-2024)

The Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG), currently in its fifth year of measurement, is an indicator of the quality of goods and services produced in the Singapore economy. CSISG complements production-based measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by providing an assessment from the buyers’ point of view. Both types of measures are necessary as economic growth hinges not only on producing more, but producing better products and services.

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Can Routine Activities Theory Be Applied To Explain White Collar Crime? A Crime-Specific Analysis Using Reverse Redlining, Jory A. Maes May 2011

Can Routine Activities Theory Be Applied To Explain White Collar Crime? A Crime-Specific Analysis Using Reverse Redlining, Jory A. Maes

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Scholars have examined white collar crime through lenses of classical criminological theories such as: anomie theory, learning/differential association, rational choice/opportunity, strain, and social control theory. Little research has been done using Routine Activities Theory to analyze white collar crime. The author's intention is to offer one example of how Routine Activities Theory can be applied to explain the contextual significance of a white collar crime. The research methodology utilized is centered upon reverse redlining, a predatory lending practice. The research models the application of Routine Activities Theory which is seated in the idea that crime emerges when there is a …

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Victims Of Identity Theft: Can Existing Victim Assets Mitigate The Emotional And Psychological Impact, Carolyn M. Billecci May 2011

Victims Of Identity Theft: Can Existing Victim Assets Mitigate The Emotional And Psychological Impact, Carolyn M. Billecci

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Since Sutherland coined the phrase "white-collar crime" in 1939 during his address to the American Sociological Society (Barnett, n.d.), an array of crimes now fall under that heading. In particular, the crime of identity theft is an area of great concern and the subject of this study. The first identified task in this study was to achieve an understanding of what has been learned thus far about the emotional impact of identity theft on victims. The second resided in seeking to understand if a correlation exist between assets and income, and the emotional impact felt by identity theft victims. The …

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Model Diagnostics For Proportional And Partial Proportional Odds Models, Ann A. O'Connell, Xing Liu May 2011

Model Diagnostics For Proportional And Partial Proportional Odds Models, Ann A. O'Connell, Xing Liu

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Although widely used to assist in evaluating the prediction quality of linear and logistic regression models, residual diagnostic techniques are not well developed for regression analyses where the outcome is treated as ordinal. The purpose of this article is to review methods of model diagnosis that may be useful in investigating model assumptions and in identifying unusual cases for PO and PPO models, and provide a corresponding application of these diagnostic methods to the prediction of proficiency in early literacy for children drawn from the kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K; NCES, 2000).

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Sample Size Considerations For Multiple Comparison Procedures In Anova, Gordon P. Brooks, George A. Johanson May 2011

Sample Size Considerations For Multiple Comparison Procedures In Anova, Gordon P. Brooks, George A. Johanson

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Adequate sample sizes for omnibus ANOVA tests do not necessarily provide sufficient statistical power for post hoc multiple comparisons typically performed following a significant omnibus F test. Results reported support a comparison-of-most-interest approach for sample size determination in ANOVA based on effect sizes for multiple comparisons.

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Type I Error Inflation Of The Separate-Variances Welch T Test With Very Small Sample Sizes When Assumptions Are Met, Albert K. Adusah, Gordon P. Brooks May 2011

Type I Error Inflation Of The Separate-Variances Welch T Test With Very Small Sample Sizes When Assumptions Are Met, Albert K. Adusah, Gordon P. Brooks

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

This Monte Carlo study shows that the separate-variances Welch t test has inflated Type I error rates at very small sample sizes, especially when sample sizes are very small in one group and larger in the second group – even when all assumptions for the statistical test are met.

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One Is Not Enough: The Need For Multiple Respondents In Survey Research Of Organizations, Joseph L. Balloun, Hilton Barrett, Art Weinstein May 2011

One Is Not Enough: The Need For Multiple Respondents In Survey Research Of Organizations, Joseph L. Balloun, Hilton Barrett, Art Weinstein

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The need for multiple respondents per organization in organizational survey research is supported. Leadership teams’ ratings of their implementations of market orientation are examined, along with learning orientation, entrepreneurial management, and organizational flexibility. Sixty diverse organizations, including not-for-profit organizations in education and healthcare as well as manufacturing and service businesses, were included. The major finding was the large rating variance within the leadership teams of each organization. The results are enlightening and have definite implications for improved design of survey research on organizations.

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Is Next Twelve Months Period Tumor Recurrence Free Under Restricted Rate Due To Medication? A Probabilistic Warning, Ramalingam Shanmugam May 2011

Is Next Twelve Months Period Tumor Recurrence Free Under Restricted Rate Due To Medication? A Probabilistic Warning, Ramalingam Shanmugam

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A methodology is formulated to analyze tumor recurrence data when its incidence rate is restricted due to medication. Analytic results are derived to make a probabilistic early warning of tumor recurrence free period of length τ; that is, the chance for a safe period of lengthτ is estimated. The captured data are length biased. Expressions are developed to extract and relate to counterparts of the non-length biased data. Three data sets are considered as illustrations: (1) patients who are given a placebo, (2) patients who are given the medicine pyridoxine and (3) patients who are given the medicine thiotepa.

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The Likelihood Of Choosing The Borda-Winner With Partial Preference Rankings Of The Electorate, Ömer Eğecioğlu, Ayça Ebru Giritligil May 2011

The Likelihood Of Choosing The Borda-Winner With Partial Preference Rankings Of The Electorate, Ömer Eğecioğlu, Ayça Ebru Giritligil

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Given that n voters report only the first r (1 ≤ r < m) ranks of their linear preference rankings over m alternatives, the likelihood of implementing Borda outcome is investigated. The information contained in the first r ranks is aggregated through a Borda-like method, namely the r-Borda rule. Monte-Carlo simulations are run to detect changes in the likelihood of r-Borda winner(s) to coincide with the original Borda winner(s) as a function of m, n and r. The voters’ preferences are generated through the Impartial Anonymous and Neutral Culture Model, where both the names of the …

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An Exact Test For The Equality Of Intraclass Correlation Coefficients Under Unequal Family Sizes, Madhusudan Bhandary, Koji Fujiwara May 2011

An Exact Test For The Equality Of Intraclass Correlation Coefficients Under Unequal Family Sizes, Madhusudan Bhandary, Koji Fujiwara

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

An exact test for the equality of two intraclass correlation coefficients under unequal family sizes based on two independent multi-normal samples is proposed. This exact test consistently and reliably produced results superior to those of the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) and the large sample Z-test proposed by Young and Bhandary (1998). The test generally performed better in terms of power (for higher intraclass correlation values) for various combinations of intraclass correlation coefficient values and the exact test remained closer to the significance level under the null hypothesis compared to the other two tests. For small sample situations, sizes of the …

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Extension Of Grizzle’S Classic Crossover Design, James F. Reed Iii May 2011

Extension Of Grizzle’S Classic Crossover Design, James F. Reed Iii

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The crossover design compares treatments A and B over two periods using sequences AB and BA (the AB|BA design) and is the classic design most often illustrated and critiqued in textbooks. Other crossover designs have been used but their use is relatively rare and not always well understood. This article introduces alternatives to a randomized two-treatment, two-period crossover study design. One strategy, which is to extend the classic AB|BA by adding a third period to repeat one of the two treatments, has several attractive advantages; an added treatment period may not imply a large additional cost but will allow carryover …

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Double Acceptance Sampling Plans Based On Truncated Life Tests For Marshall-Olkin Extended Lomax Distribution, G. Srinivasa Rao May 2011

Double Acceptance Sampling Plans Based On Truncated Life Tests For Marshall-Olkin Extended Lomax Distribution, G. Srinivasa Rao

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Double Acceptance Sampling Plans (DASP) is developed for a truncated life test when the lifetime of an item follows the Marshall-Olkin extended Lomax distribution. Probability of Acceptance (PA) is calculated for different consumer’s confidence levels fixing the producer’s risk at 0.05. Probability of acceptance and producer’s risk are illustrated with examples.

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Estimation Of Population Mean In Successive Sampling By Sub-Sampling Non-Respondents, Housila P. Singh, Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Bhougal May 2011

Estimation Of Population Mean In Successive Sampling By Sub-Sampling Non-Respondents, Housila P. Singh, Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Bhougal

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The estimation of the population mean in mail surveys is investigated in the context of sampling on two occasions where the population mean of the auxiliary variable is available in the presence of non-response only for the current occasion in two occasion successive sampling. The behavior of the proposed estimator is compared with the estimator for the same situation but in the absence of non-response. An empirical illustration demonstrates the performance of the proposed estimator.

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Fisher’S Exact Test For Misclassified Data, Tze-San Lee May 2011

Fisher’S Exact Test For Misclassified Data, Tze-San Lee

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis. Fisher’s exact test is adapted to handle the misclassified data arising from comparing two binomial populations. The bias-adjusted odds ratio is proposed to account for misclassification errors. Its expected power depends in a nonlinear way on the true sensitivity and specificity of the classification method. The data taken from the no conviction rate of criminality for two types of twin populations was used to illustrate how to calculate true sensitivity and specificity and the expected power of the adjusted odds ratio.

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Improved Estimation Of The Population Mean Using Known Parameters Of An Auxiliary Variable, Rajesh Tailor, Balkishan Sharma May 2011

Improved Estimation Of The Population Mean Using Known Parameters Of An Auxiliary Variable, Rajesh Tailor, Balkishan Sharma

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

An improved ratio-cum-product type estimator of the finite population mean is proposed using known information on the coefficient of variation of an auxiliary variate and correlation coefficient between a study variate and an auxiliary variate. Realistic conditions are obtained under which the proposed estimator is more efficient than the simple mean estimator, usual ratio and product estimators and estimators proposed by Singh and Diwivedi (1981), Pandey and Dubey (1988), Upadhaya and Singh (1999), and Singh, et al., (2004). An empirical study supports theoretical findings.

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Inference In Simple Regression For The Intercept Utilizing Prior Information On The Slope, Ayman Baklizi, Adil E. Yousif May 2011

Inference In Simple Regression For The Intercept Utilizing Prior Information On The Slope, Ayman Baklizi, Adil E. Yousif

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Shrinkage type estimators are developed for the intercept parameter of a simple linear regression model and the case when it is suspected a priori that the slope parameter is equal to some specific value is considered. Three different estimators of the intercept parameters are examined. The relative performances of the estimators are investigated based on a simulation study of the biases and mean squared errors. The associated bootstrap confidence intervals are also studied and their performance is evaluated.

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Factors Influencing The Mixture Index Of Model Fit In Contingency Tables Showing Independence, Xuemei Pan, C. Mitchell Dayton May 2011

Factors Influencing The Mixture Index Of Model Fit In Contingency Tables Showing Independence, Xuemei Pan, C. Mitchell Dayton

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Several competing computational techniques for dealing with sampling zeros were evaluated when estimating the two-point mixture model index, π* , in contingency tables under an independence assumption. Also, the performance of the estimate and associated standard errors were studied under various combinations of conditions.

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Bayesian Regression Analysis With Examples In S-Plus And R, Sheikh P. Ahmad, A. A. Khan, A. Ahmed May 2011

Bayesian Regression Analysis With Examples In S-Plus And R, Sheikh P. Ahmad, A. A. Khan, A. Ahmed

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

An extended version of normal theory Bayesian regression models, including extreme-value, logistic and normal regression models is examined. Methods proposed are illustrated numerically; the regression coefficient of pH on electrical conductivity (EC) of soil data is analyzed using both S-PLUS and R software.

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Bayesian Threshold Moving Average Models, Mahmoud M. Smadi, M. T. Alodat May 2011

Bayesian Threshold Moving Average Models, Mahmoud M. Smadi, M. T. Alodat

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A Bayesian approach in threshold moving average model for time series with two regimes is provided. The posterior distribution of the delay and threshold parameters are used to examine and investigate the intrinsic characteristics of this nonlinear time series model. The proposed approach is applied to both simulated data and a real data set obtained from a chemical system. Key words: Threshold time series, moving average model, Bayesian

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A Robust One-Sided Variability Control Chart, P. Borysov, Ping Sa May 2011

A Robust One-Sided Variability Control Chart, P. Borysov, Ping Sa

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A new control charting technique to monitor the variability of any distribution is proposed. The simulation study shows that the new method outperforms all the existing methods in controlling the Type I error rates and it also has good power performance for all distributions considered in the study.

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Caring For Grandchildren And Intergenerational Support In Rural China: A Gendered Extended Family Perspective, Zhen Cong, Merril D. Silverstein May 2011

Caring For Grandchildren And Intergenerational Support In Rural China: A Gendered Extended Family Perspective, Zhen Cong, Merril D. Silverstein

Falk College Research Center

This investigation examines how support from adult children is affected by their parents’ involvement in grandchild care. Instead of focusing on dyadic interactions, we adopt a gendered extended family perspective to examine how financial and emotional support from children was influenced when their siblings received help with child care from their elder parents. The data were from a two-wave (2001, 2003) longitudinal study of 4,791 parent–child dyads with 1,162 parents, aged 60 and older, living in rural areas of Anhui Province, China. Random effects regression showed that emotional support from both sons and daughters was strengthened when parents provided more …

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เรื่องเล่าชาวจุฬาฯ : 5 ทศวรรษบัณทิตวิทยาลัยจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, พรพจน์ เปี่ยมสมบูรณ์ May 2011

เรื่องเล่าชาวจุฬาฯ : 5 ทศวรรษบัณทิตวิทยาลัยจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, พรพจน์ เปี่ยมสมบูรณ์

Jamjuree Journal

No abstract provided.

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