Title of Document: BASELINE ADJUSTMENT FOR ORDINAL COVARIATES BY INDUCING A PARTIAL ORDERING IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS. Na An, Master of Arts, 2007 Directed By: Professor Paul J. Smith Department of Mathematics In two-armed randomized clinical trials (RCTs) designed to compare a new treatment with a control, a key endpoint is often measured and analyzed both at baseline and after treatment ...

UNLABELLED Provision of partial and complete dentures constructed from resin is commonplace and a satisfactory outcome requires the consideration of the properties of the resin, the oral tissues and prosthodontic principles. This second of a two-part series examines the advantages and disadvantages of flexible nylon denture base resins, which have found popularity for the provision of partial d...

Seasonal adjustment methods are used to process and publish thousands of time series across the world each month, judgement adequacy relies heavily upon seasonal diagnostics. This paper discusses tests for a adjustment, first reviewing broader background on seasonality then proceeding four that appropriate stationary forms seasonality. We contrast time-domain frequency-domain approaches, focusi...

Multi-view geometry theory is applied to atmospheric nuclear tests filmed in the 1950s and 1960s, to estimate the three-dimensional locations of fixed structures and radiological material during the detonation. Results show that using bundle adjustment, points can be estimated with an average uncertainty of 0.68 meters with 0.36, 0.28, and 0.37 meters of uncertainty in x-, y-, and z-directions ...

This study investigated the relation of friendship and emotional adjustment in adolescents. Both quantitative (popularity, mutual friendships, and number of friends) and qualitative dimensions (perceived positive friendship quality and conflict) of friendship were used. Participants were 618, mostly European American, 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. Structural equation modeling showed that posit...

This study aims to analyze the effect of imports, exports, inflation, and exchange rates with Indonesia's foreign reserves simultaneously partially a time limit 1996-2020. utilizes secondary data, namely series data period 25 years. Linear regression is an analytical method used in this Partial Adjustment Model (PAM) approach. The results indicate that there positive significant influence exist...

conclusions the research revealed that nonsmokers showed better mental health and dyadic adjustment than smokers, thus suggesting that smoking endangers and can impair the tranquility of families and that smoking also threatens the dyadic adjustment of couples. background the mental health and dyadic adjustment of smokers is a matter of serious concern which brings many demerits on mental healt...

This paper analyzes the interaction of direct and indirect risk selection in health insurance markets. It is shown that direct risk selection - using measures unrelated to the benefit package like selective advertising or 'losing' applications of high risk individuals - nevertheless has an influence on the distortions of the benefit package caused by indirect risk selection. Direct risk selecti...