These lecture notes present some basic intuitions underlying structural equations modeling (SEM). If you find this technique useful in your research, I suggest that you take a semester-long course on SEM and/or hierarchical linear model (HLM). It turns out that SEM and HLM are essentially the same technique but some things are easier to implement in one versus the other so disciplines tend to f...

this paper concerns with the modeling and construction of a fifth order method for two dimensional acoustic wave equation in heterogenous media. the method is based on a standard discretization of the problem on smooth regions and a nonstandard method for nonsmooth regions.the construction of the nonstandard method is based on the special treatment of the interface using suitable jump condition...

the pupose of this paper is modeling of partial digest problem (pdp) as a mathematical programming problem. in this paper we present a new viewpoint of pdp. we formulate the pdp as a continuous optimization problem and develope a method to solve this problem. finally we constract a linear programming model for the problem with an additional constraint. this later model can be solved by the simp...

In several applications, e.g., in control and systems modeling theory, Drazin inverses and matrix pencil methods for the study of generalized (descriptor) linear systems are used extensively. In this paper, a relation between the Drazin inverse and the Kronecker canonical form of rectangular pencils is derived and fully investigated. Moreover, the relation between the Drazin inverse and the Wei...