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Research Methods in Cognition and Emotion

The effect of nonrandom selection of clusters in a two stage cluster design

THE EFFECT OF NONRANDOM SELECTION OF CLUSTERS IN A TWO STAGECLUSTER DESIGN byJASON PARROTTDecember 2012Advisor: Dr. Shlomo SawilowskyMajor: Evaluation and ResearchDegree: Doctor of Philosophy Although not as efficient as simple random sampling, cluster sampling has beenregarded as a valid sampling technique when the researcher is attempting to save cost. However,...

0 Note on the Curvature and Index of Almost Unitary Contraction Operator ∗

In the recent preprint [1] S. Parrott proves the equality between the Arveson's curvature and the Fredholm index of a " pure " contraction with finite defect numbers. In the present note one derives a similar formula in the " non-pure " case. The notions of d-contraction T = (T 1 , T 2 ,. .. , T d) and its curvature was introduced by W. Arveson in a series of papers (see [2], [3], and [4]). In ...

Integration formulas for the conditional transform involving the first variation

In this paper, we show that the conditional transform with respect to the Gaussian process involving the first variation can be expressed in terms of the conditional transform without the first variation. We then use this result to obtain various integration formulas involving the conditional $diamond$-product and the first variation.

Modeling cross-scale relationships between climate, hydrology, and individual animals: generating scenarios for stream salamanders

Citation: Girard P, Levison J, Parrott L, Larocque M, Ouellet M-A and Green DM (2015) Modeling cross-scale relationships between climate, hydrology, and individual animals: generating scenarios for stream salamanders. Front. Environ. Sci. 3:51. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00051 Modeling cross-scale relationships between climate, hydrology, and individual animals: generating scenarios for stream sal...