The total area coverage by starspots is of interest for a variety of reasons, but direct techniques only provide estimates of this important quantity. Sunspot areas exhibit a lognormal size distribution irrespective of the phase of the activity cycle, implying that most sunspots are small. Here we explore the consequences if starspot areas were similarly distributed. The solar data allow for an...

PURPOSE To find the most accurate mathematical description of the intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT) distribution in the general male population. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the fitness of various well-known mathematical distributions with the IELT distribution of two previously published stopwatch studies of the Caucasian general male population and a stopwatch study of Dutch...

This paper presents two main results. The first result indicates that in materials with broadly distributed microscopic heterogeneities, the fracture strength distribution corresponding to the peak load of the material response does not follow the commonly used Weibull and (modified) Gumbel distributions. Instead, a lognormal distribution describes more adequately the fracture strengths corresp...

February 15, 2013 Type Package Title Poisson lognormal and bivariate Poisson lognormal distribution Version 0.4 Date 2008-04-29 Author Vidar Grøtan and Steinar Engen Maintainer Vidar Grøtan Description Functions for obtaining the density, random deviates and maximum likelihood estimates of the Poisson lognormal distribution and the bivariate Poisson lognormal distribu...

Concentration ratios (CR(wo-media)) are used in most radioecological models to predict whole-body radionuclide activity concentrations in wildlife from those in environmental media. This simplistic approach amalgamates the various factors influencing transfer within a single generic value and, as a result, comparisons of model predictions with site-specific measurements can vary by orders of ma...

Code Division Multiple Access Communications Sang Wu Kim1 and Andrea Goldsmith Dept. of Electrical Engineering California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 Abstract We analyze the performance of the truncated power control scheme in code division multiple access communication systems, which compensates for fading above a certain cuto fade depth. We investigate the power gain as well as...

The oft-used log-normal distribution for sol®ing many population-balance problems is in fact a degenerate case of a Hermite function expansion of the solution in log particle-size coordinate. Correcti®e capabilities of such an expansion constitute ®ast impro®ements not only o®er those using the log-normal distribution, but also o®er discretization methods in that moments other than those design...

Estimation of the mean of the lognormal distribution has received much attention in the literature beginning with Finney (1941). The problem is of significant practical importance because of the ubiquitous use of log-transformation. In this paper we consider estimation of a parametric function associated with the lognormal distribution of which the mean, median and moments are special cases. We...

Metagenomes present assembly challenges, when assembling multiple genomes from mixed reads of multiple species. An assembler for single genomes can't adapt well when applied in this case. A metagenomic assembler, Genovo, is a de novo assembler for metagenomes under a generative probabilistic model. Genovo assembles all reads without discarding any reads in a preprocessing step, and is therefore...