This guide was commissioned by MoD through the Avionic Systems Standardisation Committee (ASSC). It compares the Def Stan 00-18 series of interface standards with several Electronic Industries Association (EIA) civil data transmission standards and two civil avionics data transmission standards developed by Air Radio Incorporated (ARINC) under the auspices of the Airlines Electrical Engineering...

The Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC) and cross-validation are methods for estimating pointwise out-of-sample prediction accuracy from a fitted Bayesian model. WAIC is based on the series expansion of leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO), and asymptotically they are equal. With finite data, WAIC and cross-validation address different predictive questions and thus it is useful to be a...

Research briefs: LIGO Project Status, Stan Whitcomb : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 General Relativity Survives another Test, Cli Will : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 8 Macroscopic deviations from Hawking radiation?, Lee Smolin : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 10 Toroidal Event Hor...

We study the asymptotic probability that a random walk with heavytailed increments crosses a high boundary on a random time interval. We use new techniques to extend results of Asmussen [Ann. Appl. Probab. 8 (1998) 354–374] to completely general stopping times, uniformity of convergence over all stopping times and a wide class of nonlinear boundaries. We also give some examples and counterexamp...

OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that the availability and selective use of STAN in conjunction with cardiotocography for intrapartum monitoring, lowers the incidence of operative deliveries for fetal distress. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Delivery suite of the National University Hospital, Singapore. METHODS The data regarding intrapartum cesarean se...

This special issue of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA) is dedicated to Dr. Stanley Azen, founding Editor and continuing Editor-in-Chief of CSDA for the past 20 years. The Special Issue consists of peer review papers from the Editorial Board members of CSDA. Dr. Azen has made innumerable contributions to biomedical research during his career as a researcher and educator. As a de...

The anecdote is famous. A mathematician, Stan Ulam, once challenged Paul Samuelson to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial. His reply was: ‘Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage’; see Paul Samuelson (1995, p. 22). Truth, however, in Samuelson’s reply refers to the fact that Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage is mathematically correct, not that...

Correction for 'The magnitude of lift forces acting on drops and bubbles in liquids flowing inside microchannels' by Claudiu A. Stan et al., Lab Chip, 2013, 13, 365-376.