Event-Related Potential (ERP) signals obtained from EEG recordings are widely used for studying cognitive processes in spoken language processing. The computation of ERPs involves averaging over multiple participants and multiple stimuli. Especially with speech stimuli, which also evoke substantial exogenous excitation, even averaging within conditions results in pooling many sources of varianc...

genetic parameters for birth weight (bw), weaning weight (ww), 6 months weight (6mw), 9 months weight (9mw) and yearling weight (yw) in baluchi sheep were estimated using data collected during a 26-year period (1984-2010). estimates of (co)variance components were obtained by reml procedures by fitting a linear mixed animal model. significant random effects for each trait were explored by fitti...

the mode of agronomic traits inheritance was investigated in safflower (carthamus tinctorius l.) in drought stress as a new report. five generation including p1, p2, f1, f2 and f3 that derived from the cross of il.111 (drought sensitive) ×mex.22-191 (drought tolerance) were used in a randomized complete block design with two replications. generation mean analysis was used to estimate genetic pa...

This paper is concerned with estimating the mean of a random variable Y conditional on a vector of covariates X under weak assumptions about the form of the conditional mean function. Fully nonparametric estimation is usually unattractive when X is multidimensional because estimation precision decreases rapidly as the dimension of X increases. This problem can be overcome by using dimension red...

There are situations that Decision Making Units (DMU’s) have uncertain information and their inputs and outputs cannot alter redially. To this end, this paper combines the rough set theorem (RST) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and proposes a non-redial Rough-DEA (RDEA) model so called additive rough-DEA model and illustrates the proposed model by a numerical example.  

influence of maternal and sire-generation interaction effects on day-old chick' weight was investigated in two commercial broiler sire and dam lines, and in mazandaran native fowls. the data were analysed through restricted maximum likelihood (reml) procedures, using asreml software. ten different animal models were implemented and compared with likelihood ratio test. all models consisted ...

the aim of the present study was the estimation of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for body weight of moghani sheep, using random regression models based on b-splines functions. the data set included 9165 body weight records from 60 to 360 days of age from 2811 moghani sheep, collected between 1994 to 2013 from jafar-abad animal research and breeding institute, ardabil province,...

This study describes a new graphical method for assessing and characterizing e$ect modi%cation by a matching covariate in matched case–control studies. This method to understand e$ect modi%cation is based on a semiparametric model using a varying coe2cient model. The method allows for nonparametric relationships between e$ect modi%cation and other covariates, or can be useful in suggesting para...