Ocean–continent comparisons

A Note on the Comparisons among Coherent Systems

 Using the concept of system signature introduced by Samaniego (1985), Kochar et al. (1999) compared the lifetimes of the systems in which the lifetimes of the components are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables. Their results are extended to the systems with exchangeable components by Navarro et al. (2005). This paper gives some alternative proofs to obtain th...

Molecular Comparisons

As soon as an abnormal globin was found to cause sickle cell disease, scientists began looking for other variations. Samples were readily available from donors or from blood samples collected for medical tests. Within a few years, many alterations were identified; some changed the alpha globin amino acid sequence and others altered the beta chain. Most of the new alleles were named for the loca...

Multiple comparisons

While multiple testing procedures have been the focus of much statistical research, an important facet of the problem is how to deal with possible confounding. Procedures have been developed by authors in genetics and statistics. In this chapter, we relate these proposals. We propose two new multiple testing approaches within this framework. The first combines sensitivity analysis methods with ...

Generic Comparisons

The paper discusses comparative generic sentences As are F-er than Bs—girls do better than boys in grade school, for example—which pose severe problems for extant accounts. In their stead, the paper proposes reconceiving the LF of generic sentences as more closely akin to that of sentences containing non-generic plurals, paradigmatically plural definite descriptions. Given this one crucial chan...

Specific Comparisons