The Delphi technique is a unique survey method that involves an iterative process to gain consensus when challenging establish. Survey participants typically rate variety of statements using specified rating scale. repeated for several rounds, and at each round do not reach predefined level are advanced the next while giving information about responses other their comparison. final then ranked ...

In classification problems when multiples algorithms are applied to different benchmarks a difficult issue arises, i.e., how can we rank the algorithms? In machine learning it is common run the algorithms several times and then a statistic is calculated in terms of means and standard deviations. In order to compare the performance of the algorithms, it is very common to employ statistical tests...

Recent research on Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has proven that Poincare Plot is a powerful tool to mark Short Term and Long Term Heart Rate Variability. This study focuses a comprehensive characterization of HRV among the Tea Garden Workers of the Northern Hilly Regions of West Bengal. The characterization, as available from the data sets, projects the average values of SD1 characteristics, th...

The goal of this study was to analyse perceptually and acoustically the voices of patients with Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis (UVFP) and compare them to the voices of normal subjects. These voices were analysed perceptually with the GRBAS scale and acoustically using the following parameters: mean fundamental frequency (F0), standard-deviation of F0, jitter (ppq5), shimmer (apq11), mean harmo...

We introduce the ε-Gini-contamination multiple priors model in which the set of priors are those probability measures that are ‘close’ to a central P with respect to the relative Gini concentration index. We show that such preferences can be represented by a linear-mean-standard-deviation utility function on a restricted domain. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.