209 Initiating a Statewide Evaluation System for Watermelons

A Statewide Case Management, Surveillance, and Outcome Evaluation System for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Objectives. To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a statewide children with special health care needs (CSHCN) program evaluation, case management, and surveillance system using a standardized instrument and protocol that operationalized the United States Health and Human Services CSHCN National Performance Measures. Methods. Public health nurses in local public health agencies in Washingt...

Stars and Watermelons

Gillet [3] demonstrated that limn→∞Wk(b2n tc)/ √ 2n tends to a family of p nonintersecting Brownian excursions, 0 ≤ t ≤ 1, as an extension of a principle given in [4]. The height of a path Wk in a p-watermelon with wall is the maximum value of Wk(i) over all i. The area under a path Wk is the area of the polygonal region determined by the curve j = Wk(i), the horizontal line j = 0, and the vert...

Benefits of a Statewide Student Identifier System for California

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An Alternate Key for a Statewide Highway Information Retrieval System

Asymptotic behaviour of watermelons

A watermelon is a set of p Bernoulli paths starting and ending at the same ordinate, that do not intersect. In this paper, we show the convergence in distribution of two sorts of watermelons (with or without wall condition) to processes which generalize the Brownian bridge and the Brownian excursion in Rp. These limit processes are defined by stochastic differential equations. The distributions...