Between the years 2000 and 2012, natural disasters caused $1.7 trillion in damage and affected 2.9 billion people (dosomething.org). The military has been active in participating in many disaster areas using their unique assets. Although military involvement in relief operations is welcome,...

Collaborative relationship is said to foster sustainable supply chain operations. It is argued that relationship based supply chain produces financially tangible results in many areas of supply chain. The concept is based on transaction cost theory arguing that the final price is determined in...

Suppose that we rank-order the conditional probabilities for a group of subjects that are provided from a Bayesian network (BN) model of binary variables. The conditional probability is the probability that a subject has a certain attribute given an outcome of some other variables and the...

We show that, when the three-way association level among the three binary variables, X, U₁ and U₂ is fixed, D_P = pr(X = 1¦U₁ = 1) - pr(X = 1¦U₁ = 0) increases as the cross-product ratio of U₁ and U₂ increases under the assumption that X is positively associated with U₁ and U₂. We then discuss...

The Pearson's chi-squared statistic (X2) does not in general follow a chi-square distribution when it is used for goodness-of-fit testing for a multinomial distribution based on sparse contingency table data. We explore properties of [Zelterman, D., 1987. Goodness-of-fit tests for large sparse...