A statistical methodology for automatically determining whether a pair of documents, a known and a questioned, were written by the same individual is proposed. First, several writing elements, e.g., characters, are extracted from each document. Second, differences between corresponding elements from each document are computed. Third, using conditional probability estimates of each difference, t...

Choosing a probability distribution to represent the precipitation depth at various durations has long been a topic of interest in hydrology. Early study into the distribution of wet-day daily rainfall has identified the 2-parameter Gamma (G2) distribution as the most likely candidate distribution based on traditional goodness of fit tests. This paper uses probability plot correlation coefficie...

A resource selection probability function is a function that gives the probability that a resource unit (e.g., a plot of land) that is described by a set of habitat variables X1 to Xp will be used by an animal or group of animals in a certain period of time. The estimation of a resource selection function is usually based on the comparison of a sample of resource units used by an animal with a ...