In this paper we test the statistical probability models for breast cancer survival data for race and ethnicity. Data was collected from breast cancer patients diagnosed in United States during the years 1973-2009. We selected a stratified random sample of Black Hispanic female patients from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database to derive the statistical probability mode...

This study investigated students’ learning behaviors in a fully online psychology course which offered 76 streaming lecture videos and supplementary resources, as well as individual and group activities. This paper focuses on students’ use of lecture videos. Data collection included students’ real usage of data on Blackboard Learn 9.1, a course survey, and students’ final grades. The analysis a...

How can we teach graduate-level students the principles of hypothesis testing in order to improve their skills in application and interpreting hypothesis test results? This was one of the main challenges in our course Applied Statistics. Although most students, all potentially future researchers in social and behavioural sciences, were not specifically interested in statistics, it seemed a good...

Initial experiments in learning valence (subcategorisation) frames of Polish verbs from a morphosyntactically annotated corpus are reported here. The learning algorithm consists of a linguistic module, responsible for very simple shallow parsing of the input text (nominal and prepositional phrase recognition) and for the identification of valence frame cues (hypotheses), and a statistical modul...

We present the application of a recently introduced nonparametric predictive inferential method to compare two groups of data, consisting of observed event times and right-censoring times. Comparison is based on imprecise probabilities concerning one future observation per group.

introduction: human resources are one of the factors most effective on the success or failure of an organization and service motivation is a factor which affects the quality and quantity of activity of an organization. the present study aimed to determine the motivating potential score (mps) of medical record staff of training hospitals in isfahan, iran, over the years of 2011-2012. methods: th...