BACKGROUND Adaptive, context-dependent control of locomotion requires modulation of centrally generated rhythmic motor patterns through peripheral control loops and postural reflexes. Thus assuming that the modulation of rhythmic motor patterns accounts for much of the behavioural variability observed in legged locomotion, investigating behavioural variability is a key to the understanding of c...

BACKGROUND An unknown input function can be determined by deconvolution using the systemic bolus input function (r) determined using an experimental input of duration ranging from a few seconds to many minutes. The quantitative relation between the duration of the input and the accuracy of r is unknown. Although a large number of deconvolution procedures have been described, these routines are ...

The general properties of the gamma distribution, which has several applications in meteorology, are discussed. A short review of the general properties of good statistical estimators is given. This is applied to the gamma distribution to show that the maximum likelihood estimators are jointly sufficient. A new, simple approximation of the likelihood solutions is given, and the efficiency of th...

A method is presented for estimating relative mutation rates or relative effective population sizes, under the hypothesis of adaptively neutral allelic variation. This method was applied to seven surveys of electrophoretic variation. It was observed that electrophoretic mutation rates so obtained follow the gamma distribution and, in Drosophila, are positively correlated with the molecular weig...

A series repairable system not only is one of the classical reliability models but is also the usually used model in practice. In this paper, a method for calculating system availability for series repairable system is studied. From the states of components, this methodology uses a gamma distribution to model the material degradation, and the impact of imperfect maintenance actions on the syste...

in this paper, we consider admissible estimation of the parameter ?r in the gamma distribution with truncated parameter space under entropy loss function. we obtain the classes of admissible estimators. the result can be applied to estimation of parameters in the normal, lognormal, pareto, generalized gamma, generalized laplace and other distributions.

The paper studies changes in daily precipitation records at the National Observatory, Athens, during the period 1891–2004. This is the longest available time series of precipitation for Greece. The results show that both the shape and scale parameter of a fitted two parameter gamma distribution for the last two decades do show a significant difference of these parameters, when compared to any p...

It is well known that unobserved heterogeneity can produce misleading estimates in survival analysis (see for example, Allison, 1995, p.233). The goal of this paper is to show how to estimate and apply a single event timing model with heterogeneity to real data with SAS. We consider three different models: An Exponential-gamma model, when individual-level time-to-event is exponentially distribu...

Nowadays, the search for a distribution capable of modeling the probability density function (PDF) of irradiance data under all conditions of atmospheric turbulence in the presence of aperture averaging still continues. Here, a family of PDFs alternative to the widely accepted Log-Normal and Gamma-Gamma distributions is proposed to model the PDF of the received optical power in free-space optic...