Recent literature typically finds a U shaped relationship between life satisfaction and age. Age profiles, however, are not identified without forcing arbitrary restrictions on the cohort and/or time profiles. In this paper we report what can be identified about the relationship between life satisfaction and age without applying such restrictions. Also, we identify the restrictions needed to co...

In some statistical process control applications in the real world, quality of a process or a product is characterized by a relationship between two or more variables, which is referred to as profile. Understanding and checking the stability of process over time can be facilitated by monitoring the quality profile in phase I. Sometimes the quality characteristics may be linguistic, imprecise, v...

To investigate the comparative advantages of data from group as compared to individual profiles, 233 group MMPI profiles were used to construct both sequential and simultaneous classification procedures for psychiatric diagnosis. Virtually perfect separation of the group profiles was accomplished by both procedures, the results ranging from 93% correct (psychotic versus neurotic) to 99% correct...

Desorption electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) imaging was used to analyze unmodified human brain tissue sections from 39 subjects sequentially in the positive and negative ionization modes. Acquisition of both MS polarities allowed more complete analysis of the human brain tumor lipidome as some phospholipids ionize preferentially in the positive and others in the negative ion ...

Nonlinear simulation with a simple resistive magnetohydrodynamics model is used to investigate the stabilization of magnetic fluctuations in reversed-field pinch plasmas subject to pulsedparallel current drive (PPCD). Numerical results are diagnosed with computations of nonlinear power transfer and by evaluating sequences of profiles for linear stability. Results show that poloidal electric fie...

In recent years, effective profile monitoring for discrete response variables, such as binary, multinomial, ordinal or Poisson variables, has increasingly attracted interest of researchers in the area of statistical process control. Such quality characteristics are often modeled as special cases of generalized linear models. The objective of this paper is to try to provide a unified framework f...