OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine the reference interval of serum thyroid hormones (TSH, FT3, FT4) in healthy Korean adults. METHODS Health examination data from 1,591 healthy Korean adults who visited an university hospital were analyzed. Patients with specific health conditions capable of altering laboratory results were excluded from the study. Serum thyroid hormones were me...

To assess the performance of maximum-likelihood (ML) based Nakagami m parameter estimators, current methods rely on Monte Carlo simulation. In order to enable the analytical performance evaluation of ML-based m parameter estimators, we study the statistical properties of a parameter Δ, which is defined as the log-ratio of the arithmetic mean to the geometric mean for Nakagami-m fading power. Cl...

For fixed s 1 and t1,t2 ∈ (0,1/2) we prove that the inequalities G(t1a + (1− t1)b,t1b+(1− t1)a)A1−s(a,b) > AG(a,b) and G(t2a+(1− t2)b,t2b+(1− t2)a)A1−s(a,b) > L(a,b) hold for all a,b > 0 with a = b if and only if t1 1/2− √ 2s/(4s) and t2 1/2− √ 6s/(6s) . Here G(a,b) , L(a,b) , A(a,b) and AG(a,b) are the geometric, logarithmic, arithmetic and arithmetic-geometric means of a and b , respectively....