This study employed a three-phase empirical method to identify competency indicators for mechatronics technology according to industry-oriented criteria. In Phase I, a list of required competencies was compiled using Behavioral Event Interviews (BEI) with three engineers specializing in the field of mechatronics technology. In Phase II, the Delphi technique was performed with ten experts in mec...

A theme of recent side-channel research has been the quest for distinguishers which remain e ective even when few assumptions can be made about the underlying distribution of the measured leakage traces. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test is a well known nonparametric method for distinguishing between distributions, and, as such, a perfect candidate and an interesting competitor to the (already m...

In this paper, we are interested in extending the classical KolmogorovSmirnov homogeneity test to compare two samples of interval-valued observed measurements. In such a case, the test result is interval-valued, and one major difficulty is to find the bounds of this set. We propose a very efficient computational method for approximating these bounds by using a p-box (pairs of upper and lower cu...

When a reliability analysis, survival analysis, or discrete-event simulation input modeling analysis is performed, it is typically the case that a modeler collects data associated with some system under consideration. Although this raw data provides an initial insight into the stochastic elements of the system, often it is desirable to construct a model of the system which is tractable for math...

The properties of vehicle time headways are fundamental in many traffic engineering applications, such as capacity and level of service studies on highways, unsignalized intersections, and roundabouts. The operation of modern vehicle-actuated traffic signals is based on the measurement of time headways in the arriving traffic flow. In addition, the vehicle generation in traffic flow simulation ...

This study aims to describe the STEM approach improve student learning outcomes in Voltaic Cell which was carried out form of action research. The research subjects were 27 students class XII MIPA SMAN 2 Takengon, Central Aceh. data obtained from competency test at end each cycle. Study result analyzed using statistical tests (data normality test, Kolmogorov Smirnov), and comparative tests. res...

We prove the following conjecture of Narayana: there are no nontrivial dominance refinements of the Smirnov two-sample test if and only if the two sample sizes are relatively prime. We also count the number of natural significance levels of the Smirnov two-sample test in terms of the sample sizes and relate this to the Narayana conjecture. In particular, Smirnov tests with relatively prime samp...

Researchers sometimes use informal judgment for statistical model diagnostics and assumption checking. Informal might seem more desirable than formal because of a paradox: Formal hypothesis tests assumptions appear to become less useful as sample size increases. We suggest that this paradox can be resolved by evaluating both via simplified signal detection framework. In 4 studies, we used appro...