alzheimers disease (ad) is by far the most common cause of dementia. definite diagnosis of ad is based on pathological findings. nincds-adrda criteria, published more than 25 years ago, are commonly used for the clinical diagnosis of ad. however, considering serious shortcomings of these criteria, new criteria have been proposed. according to these new criteria, ad can be diagnosed in predement...

this paper considers the search problem, introduced by srivastava cite{sr}. this is a model discrimination problem. in the context of search linear models, discrimination ability of search designs has been studied by several researchers. some criteria have been developed to measure this capability, however, they are restricted in a sense of being able to work for searching only one possible non...