support, the reliability, validity, relevance, and applicability of the study could be substantiated. This implied that the …

that a reliability centred maintenance database is a costeffective tool in collecting data. Network monitoring software is …

sensitivity of production to annual weather variability. In addition to defining what it means for a sector to be sensitive to … included. In order to estimate the aggregate sensitivity of the U.S. economy to weather, Monte-Carlo simulation of the four …This thesis is based upon a series of statistical programs written in SAS. The programs can be used to evaluate the …

Sensitivity and specificity are common measures of the accuracy of a diagnostic test. The usual estimators of these …, possibly depending on the result of the diagnostic test and other characteristics of the subjects. Estimators of sensitivity … connecting the (sensitivity, 1? specificity) points at each cutpoint of the test using step functions and/or line segments. This …