... policy in a “small,” that is, polynomial in the quantities describing the system, number of steps. Our convergence analysis builds upon the so called Probably Approximately Correct in Markov Decision Processes (PAC-MDP) methodology. ³ By taking advantage of structural properties of our robo...

... in the family Trichodoridae that share important morphological features. For example, the variable swelling of the body cuticle and an approximately straight body appearance in addition to the presence of a bursa and copulatory muscles restricted to the spicule region in the male are shared between...

... in much more general settings. Connections to other inference frameworks are highlighted. Decision theory General Bayesian updating Generalized estimating equations Gibbs posteriors Information Loss function Maximum entropy Provably approximately correct Bayes methods Self-information loss...

... complications. Enteral feeding is advocated via the gastric or jejunal routes. Parenteral nutrition should be considered if enteral feeding fails. Approximately 25% of cases are associated with infected necrotic pancreatic tissue; without necrosectomy, mortality is nearly 100%. Prophylactic antimicrobials...

... that much of the marine nearshore faunas of young southeast Pacific islands may be the product of successive transfer from older, now submerged islands. Approximately unbiased test biogeography combinability dispersal island seamount Southern Hemisphere West Wind Drift Figure 1 Species ranges...

... described tests. As expected, the FST and the FHT behaved approximately like the Shimodaira–Hasegawa test and the bootstrap, respectively. Although the tests give overconfidence in a wrong tree when an overly simple nucleotide substitution model is assumed, more complex models incorporating heterogeneity...

...Hidetoshi Shimodaira; Nick Goldman 23 9 2001 19 1 2002 05 2 2002 © 2002 Society of Systematic Biologists 2002 Abstract An approximately unbiased (AU) test that uses a newly devised multiscale bootstrap technique was developed for general hypothesis testing of regions in an attempt...

... to illustrate the main results. The accuracy of the method is confirmed through simulation studies. Approximately pivotal quantity One-parameter exponential family, Sequential test Signed root transformation Stein's identity Very weak expansion Biometrika (1996), 83,4, pp. 763-777 Printed in Great Britain...

...J. L. JENSEN Biometrika (1992), 79, 4, pp 693-703 Printed in Great Britain The modified signed likelihood statistic and saddlepoint approximations BY J. L. JENSEN Department of Theoretical Statistics, Institute of Mathematics...

... are approximately Bayesian in the case of four pairs of observations. Approximately Bayesian procedure Correlation coefficient Fiducial distribution Location parameter Necessity of Bayesian inference Neyman confidence interval Biometrika (1978), 65, 1, pp. 48-62 49 Printed in Great Britain...

... center will be reviewed regarding characteristics of inpatient hospitalization and potential contributing factors increasing the individual’s risk of a suicide attempt following inpatient psychiatric/substance dependence hospitalization. In 2001 approximately 15 million adults age 18 or greater were...

...0 02 03 2009 There are approximately 31,500 suicides in the United States every year. That is approximately 86 suicides per day; or 1 suicide every 17 minutes. This translates to an annual suicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000. Suicide is the third leading cause of death between ages 15 and 24...

...0 15 01 2004 Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) are one of the fastest growing minority groups in the United States. According to the 2000 census, there are approximately 12.5 million APAs, who constitute 4.5 percent of the U.S. population. In 2020 this number is expected to increase to 6% (Lai...

... inferred trees based on 100-500 genes [12, 13, 25, 26, 36]. At the same time, easy access to GenBank and other sequence databases, which (as of March 2006) contain data on 150,000 species, or approximately 9% of all described species on Earth, coupled with development of tools to automate data mining [10...

... (Fig. 1). themajority of true Pies also bear specialized sponging mouthparts that diBer markedly from the chewing mouthparts found in most insects. Approximately 150,000 species of Diptera have been described in 180 families, although total species diversity undoubtedly exceeds twice that number (1, 2...

.... Approximately one-third of this time is spent on measures that originate in the Lords, the remainder on Commons bills. Interviews with peers, carried out for the purposes of this study,1 confirmed that peers themselves regard legislative scrutiny as the most important function of the House of Lords...

...0 03 10 1991 For approximately fifteen years a number of laboratories have been engaged in the quantitation and localization of DNA adducts using antisera elicited against DNA adducts and carcinogen modified DNAsu. Approximately Number Localization Modified This content is only available...

...0 03 06 1993 The microlymphocytotoxicity test is universally employed for serological HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, and -DQ typing. Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) (consisting of approximately 80% T and 10-15% B cells in healthy subjects) or T cells are generally used as targets for HLA-A, -B, and -C...

... developed process for mass production of HIV, she said “we also believe that the new process will enable us to develop a vaccine to prevent AIDS in the future. We hope to have such a vac9ine ready for testing in approximately two years” (Heckler 1984). Those two years came and went over a decade ago...

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