Conventional Statistical Process Control (SPC) schemes fail to monitor nonlinear and finite-state processes that often result from feedback-controlled processes. SPC methods that are designed to monitor autocorrelated processes usually assume a known model (often an ARIMA) that might poorly describe the real process. In this paper, we present a novel SPC methodology based on context modeling of...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of Australia's plain tobacco packaging policy on two stated purposes of the legislation--increasing the impact of health warnings and decreasing the promotional appeal of packaging--among adult smokers. DESIGN Serial cross-sectional study with weekly telephone surveys (April 2006-May 2013). Interrupted time-series analyses using ARIMA modelling and linear ...

This article reviews the practical aspects of the use of ARIMA (autoregressive, integrated, moving average) modelling of time series as applied to the surveillance of reportable infectious diseases, with special reference to the widely available SSS1 package, produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The main steps required by ARIMA modelling are the selection of the time seri...

As to the established gray model based on the linear time-variant and individual prediction model of ARIMA, this article constructs the combined forecasting model based on the gray model and the time series model by means of relative error weighing. This prediction indicates that both the gray model and ARIMA model exert efficient function on the Torpedo development cost prediction, and the com...

Traditionally, the autoregressivemoving average (ARMA)model has been one of themost widely used linear models in time series prediction. Recent research activities in forecasting with artificial neural networks (ANNs) suggest that ANNs can be a promising alternative to the traditional ARMA structure. These linear models and ANNs are often compared with mixed conclusions in terms of the superior...

Extended Thermodynamics of dense gases is characterized by two hierarchies of field equations, which allow one to overcome some restrictions on the generality of the previous models. This idea has been introduced by Arima, Taniguchi, Ruggeri and Sugiyama. In the case of a 14-moment model, they have found the closure of the balance equations up to second order with respect to equilibrium. Here, ...

This paper presents an overview of and introduction to some of the standard time series modeling and forecasting techniques as implemented in SAS with PROC ARIMA and PROC AUTOREG, among others. Examples are presented to illustrate the concepts. In addition to a few initial ARIMA examples, more sophisticated modeling tools will be addressed. Included will be regression models with time series er...

This paper presents the use of times series AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average ARIMA(p,d,q) model with interventions, and neural network back-propagation model in analyzing the behavior of sales in a medium size enterprise located in Rio Grande do Sul Brazil for the period January 1984 – December 2000. The forecasts obtained using the neural network back-propagation model were found to be...

We briefly review various mappings of fermion pairs to bosons, including those based on mapping operators, such as Belyaev-Zelevinskii, and those on mapping states, such as Marumori; in particular we consider the work of Otsuka-Arima-Iachello, aimed at deriving the Interacting Boson Model. We then give a rigorous and unified description of state-mapping procedures which allows one to systematic...