Abstract Number line estimation has been found to be strongly related mathematical reasoning concurrently and longitudinally. However, the relationship between number might differ according children’s level of performance. This study investigates whether findings from previous studies that show significantly predicting replicate, this holds across several points distribution. Participants inclu...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of customer participation in the service delivery process by designing and testing an empirical model with the customers’ point of view in mind. Data are collected in the context of professional financial insurance services. The proposed model is analyzed with partial least squares (PLS) path modeling in SmartPLS 2.0 software. The results of th...

Companies’ interest in customer relationship modelling and key issues such as customer lifetime value and churn has substantially increased over the years. However, the complexity of building, interpreting and applying these models creates obstacles for their implementation. The main contribution of this paper is to show how domain knowledge can be incorporated in the data mining process for ch...

Ž . Ž PLS-regression PLSR is the PLS approach in its simplest, and in chemistry and technology, most used form two-block . predictive PLS . PLSR is a method for relating two data matrices, X and Y, by a linear multivariate model, but goes beyond traditional regression in that it models also the structure of X and Y. PLSR derives its usefulness from its ability to analyze data with many, noisy, ...

A total of 1628 human plasma samples from Cycle 1 of the Canadian Health Measures Survey were assayed for total 25-hydroxyvitamin D using the DiaSorin RIA method and the Diasorin “LIAISON 25 OH Vitamin D Total” method. Bland-Altman comparison showed an average bias of 4.8 ± 16.7 nmol/L (6.3%: P<0.001) with the LIAISON method giving higher values. The relationship was investigated using linear a...