A very simple and practical resampling test is offered as an alternative to inference based on Kmaladzation, as developed in in Koenker and Xiao (2002a). This alternative has competitive or better power, accurate size, and does not require estimation of non-parametric sparsity and score functions. It applies not only to iid but also time series data. Computational experiments and an empirical e...

The Permanente Journal / Summer 1999/Volume 3. No. 2 To assess use of complementary and alternative therapies and interest in including them among member services, questionnaires were mailed to randomly selected clinicians and adult Health Plan members of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Region in Spring 1996. Responses were received from 61% (n=624) of adult primary care (APC) ...

This paper presents a distributed architecture for automating data mining processes using standard languages. Data mining is a difficult task that relies on an exploratory and analytic process of processing large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns. The increasing heterogeneity and complexity of available data requires some expert knowledge on how to combine the multiple...

Despite evidence that vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza is effective in limiting community-level transmission, the United States has had a long-standing government strategy of recommending that vaccine be concentrated primarily in high-risk groups and distributed to those people who keep the health system and social infrastructure operating. Because of this year's influenza vaccine s...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a growing field that has started to integrate itself into the management of many diseases and disorders, including cancer. As more patients continue to incorporate the use of CAM into their treatment plans, it is important to understand the mechanism and clinical effectiveness of CAM. This review focuses on the role of CAM in lung cancer, includin...

In this paper we propose a Petri net within a diagnosis system for construction design. We assimilate the construction process with an assembly process that composes parts and/or subassemblies into a unique product. We assume that the assembly supervisor (AS) system is distributed, and it solves several local AS attached to the nodes of the Petri net model of the assembly process. The research ...

in 2002, david alexander wrote principles of emergency planning and management. long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. he based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...

This article reports the results of an analysis of the relationship between supplemental benefits offered by Medicare+Choice (M+C) plans and their plan performance ratings. We examined two measures of plan performance: (1) plan ratings as reported in the Medicare Managed Care (MMC) Consumer Assessment of Health Care Study (CAHPS), and (2) disenrollment rates. The results of our analysis indicat...

We present an approach for automatically generating complete process plans, including xturing and CNC code, from high level shape feature part descriptions. The demonstration system is targeted at a broadly useful class of machined prismatic parts which includes sculpted exterior pro les and features requiring four and ve axis indexing for manufacture. The approach introduces a set of process p...