positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross … economic status, measured by income, and child survival (Anker and Knowles, 1980; Carvajal and Burgess, 1978; Farah and Preston …

, performance, and survival. In this paper, we model each of these business steps in a causal chain by testing the liquidity … constraints theory. We probe the relationships between capital, and firm entry, size, and survival by computing an exogenous …-quality effects on firm size and survival. We analyze these issues using a unique Portuguese database that traces the mobility of the …

micro-level data to examine the effects of deregulation in start-ups entry, performance and survival. The results show that …

Murrayand Tsiatis (1996) described a weighted survival estimate thatincorporates prognostic time-dependent covariate …, 1991) thatincorporates these weighted survival estimates. As in Pepe andFleming, the test is an integrated weighted … difference of twoestimated survival curves. This test has been shown to be effectiveat detecting survival differences in crossing …

of life saved is of interest. The recommended test statistic looks at integrated differences in survival estimates during … operating characteristics regardless of the shapes of the survival curves being compared. This offers an advantage over the …

We evaluated the survival of juvenile salmon through turbines in Columbia River dams and found no differences between …% range at the maximum blade angle (464 m(3)/s). Estimated relative survival to a detection array 15 km downstream was 0 … estimates of survival occurred under the lower discharge, suggesting that operating turbines within 1% of peak efficiency is a …

, and survival rates were computed from the ratio of the number of experimental to control recoveries. Detailed techniques …