In this article, an attribute control chart has been proposed using the accelerated hybrid censoring logic for the monitoring of defective items whose life follows a Weibull distribution. The product can be tested by introducing the acceleration factor based on different pressurized conditions such as stress, load, strain, temperature, etc. The control limits are derived based on the binomial d...

1.1 Background Since Steven Abney's 1987 MIT dissertation, The English Noun Phrase in Its Sentential Aspect, the socalled DP Hypothesis has gained acceptance in the eld of Government and Binding (GB) syntax. This hypothesis proposes that a nominal expression is headed by a determiner that takes a noun phrase as its complement. The preexisting NP Hypothesis, on the other hand, diagrams nominal e...

Since Bolinger’s [1] discovery that pitch cues accentual prominence in English, a tension has arisen between two strategies: equating accent with pitch excursions and relying on perception for identifying accented words. This paper investigates the relation between prominence judgments from untrained listeners and accentual labels produced by trained transcribers. Naïve speakers of English, Spa...

We performed a cognitive experiment in order to obtain evidence that prosody is used for the segmentation of continuous speech for understanding in real time. We assume that the cognitive unit in Japanese speech is the accentual phrase (AP) which is represented by low and high pitch patterns according to the Japanese accent rule. Meaningless speech which consisted of two APs was used as the exp...

Multinomial Choice: Data consists of consumer choices of various goods, along char­ acteristics. Let there be J choices and y = (y1, . . . , yJ ) where yj = 1 if good j is chosen and yj = 0 otherwise. Let x be observed characteristics of the goods and choices. Here a conditional density for y corresponds to conditional choice probabilities P (j|x, β), one for each j, with �J j=1 P (j|x, β) = 1 ...

Identification in censored regression analysis and hazard models of duration outcomes relies on the condition that censoring points are independent of latent outcomes, an assumption which may be questionable in many settings. This note proposes a test for this assumption based on a Kolmogorov-Smirnov-like test statistic comparing two different nonparametric estimators for the latent outcome cdf...

When a spatial pattern is observed through a bounded window, inference about the pattern is hampered by sampling eeects known as \edge eeects". This chapter identiies two main types of edge eeects: size-dependent sampling bias and censoring eeects. Sampling bias can be eliminated by changing the sampling technique, or`corrected' by weighting the observations. Censoring eeects can be tackled usi...

Real estate data are often characterized by irregularities, e.g., missing data, censoring or truncation, measurement error, etc. Practitioners often discard missing or censored data cases and ignore measurement error concerns. We argue here that we can remedy these irregularity problems through simulation based model tting using the Gibbs sampler. The method is described in the context of these...

It is proposed here that basic Farsi intonation structure consists of three levels, in increasing hierarchical order: the Accentual Phrase (AP), the intermediate phrase (ip), and the Intonation Phrase (IP). The end of the AP is often marked by a high tone, Ha, and rarely a low tone, La (La occurs vacuously utterance finally, marked by L-L%. In this paper, this type of La is not labeled). An AP ...