Supporting Data Analysis for “ Combining Envelope Methodology and Aster Models for Variance Reduction in Life History Analyses

An Application of Envelope Methodology and Aster Models

Precise estimation of expected Darwinian fitness is a central component of life history analysis. Our methods provide precise estimation by incorporating general envelope methodology into the aster modeling framework. This level of precision provided from out methods allow researchers to draw stronger conclusions about the driving forces of Darwinian fitness from their life history analyses tha...

Supporting Data Analysis for “ An Application of Envelope Methodology and Aster Models ”

Data mining for decision making in engineering optimal design

Often in modeling the engineering optimization design problems, the value of objective function(s) is not clearly defined in terms of design variables. Instead it is obtained by some numerical analysis such as FE structural analysis, fluid mechanic analysis, and thermodynamic analysis, etc. Yet, the numerical analyses are considerably time consuming to obtain the final value of objective functi...

Which Methodology is Better for Combining Linear and Nonlinear Models for Time Series Forecasting?

Both theoretical and empirical findings have suggested that combining different models can be an effective way to improve the predictive performance of each individual model. It is especially occurred when the models in the ensemble are quite different. Hybrid techniques that decompose a time series into its linear and nonlinear components are one of the most important kinds of the hybrid model...

Unifying life-history analyses for inference of fitness and population growth.

The lifetime fitnesses of individuals comprising a population determine its numerical dynamics, and genetic variation in fitness results in evolutionary change. This dual importance of individual fitness is well understood, but empirical fitness records generally violate the assumptions of standard statistical approaches. This problem has undermined comprehensive study of fitness and impeded em...