On fitting paradigms to people

A New Approach to Distribution Fitting: Decision on Beliefs

We introduce a new approach to distribution fitting, called Decision on Beliefs (DOB). The objective is to identify the probability distribution function (PDF) of a random variable X with the greatest possible confidence. It is known that f X is a member of = { , , }. 1 m S f L f To reach this goal and select X f from this set, we utilize stochastic dynamic programming and formulate this proble...

Older people and ill fitting shoes.

BACKGROUND Foot health is an important issue in older people. Inappropriate shoes increase the risk of callous and ulcer formation, as well as increasing the risk of falls. There are no data defining the size of this problem. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate the proportion of elderly people on a general rehabilitation ward wearing incorrectly sized shoes and to look for the p...

Organizational improvement using Organizational paradigms with the support of people paradigms

An organization is a vital part of social environment. Different parts of organization have great impact to the environment. On the other hand the different organizational strategy helps to improve the efficiency of organization and customer satisfaction. The people and tools of organization help to organization to work properly. This paper mainly describes about the organizational paradigms an...

On fitting power laws to ecological data

Heavy-tailed or power-law distributions are becoming increasingly common in biological literature. A wide range of biological data has been fitted to distributions with heavy tails. Many of these studies use simple fitting methods to find the parameters in the distribution, which can give highly misleading results. The potential pitfalls that can occur when using these methods are pointed out, ...

Effective management for older people with heart failure: from acute to palliative care paradigms