The test of homogeneity for intraclass correlation coefficients has been one of the active topics in statistical research. Several chi-square tests have been proposed to test the homogeneity of intraclass correlations in the past few decades. The big concern for them is that these methods are seriously biased when sample sizes are not large. In this thesis, data driven approaches are proposed t...

This paper introduces a simple index that helps to assess the degree of aging or rejuvenation of repairable systems and non-repairable systems (components). The index ranges from –1 to 1. It is negative for the class of decreasing failure rate distributions and point processes with decreasing ROCOF and is positive for the increasing failure rate distributions and point processes with increasing...

Introduction: The functionality and quality of any treatment planning system (TPS) strongly depends on the type of Algorithm which is used by it. Obviously, the role of dose distribution algorithms in calculation of prescribed dose inside the tumor in modern radiotherapy techniques has more important than past to achieve the best clinical outcomes, especially in tumors which ar...

OBJECTIVE To compare treatment plans obtained with the CyberKnife (CK) (Accuray, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) with those of other commonly used radiosurgical modalities, such as the gamma knife (GK), linear accelerator multiple arcs, conformally shaped static fields, and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). METHODS An ellipsoidal simulated target was chosen centrally located in a three-dimensiona...

abstract natural disasters threatening and endangering human communities has resulted in the study and research of such disasters through the related sciences and present methods of forecasting their behavior with time and place and also from a qualification and quantity viewpoint. to this end, numerous methods for the determination of the maximum flood in various return period has been made av...

The concept of extended Euler homogeneity of potential fields is examined with respect to all variables of length dimension in their analytical expressions. This reveals the possible existence of positive degrees of homogeneity or corresponding negative structural indices considered as extensions of the Thompson’s structural indices in Euler deconvolution. This approach is implemented for a con...

hydrological drought analysis using sdi index in halilrud basin of iran abstract nowadays, drought is considered as damaging environmental phenomenon which affects natural resources and social communities. therefore it will be an important issues that magnitude and effects of these phenomena to be considered. to do this we used l-moment method for regional homogeneity testing. the streamflow dr...

PURPOSE To present the results of dose homogeneity analysis for breast cancer patients treated with image-based conformal interstitial brachytherapy, and to investigate the usefulness of the ICRU recommendations. MATERIAL AND METHODS Treatment plans of forty-nine patients who underwent partial breast irradiation with interstitial brachytherapy were analyzed. Quantitative parameters were used ...

Determining the variability of observed relationships is a critical step in quantitative research synthesis, requiring the estimation of 2 ˆ ρ σ , variance due to moderator effects. When observed variance is less than expected by sampling error, the estimated residual variance is negative, which most traditional techniques recode to zero. We review an alternative technique for estimating 2 ˆ ρ ...