A series of developments in the U.S. economic environment in the 1980s has resulted in major changes in prevalent thinking about how monetary policy affects economic activity. One important part of this change simply reflects the heightened awareness, following the experience of disinflation early in the decade, that monetary policy is not neutral-that is,,that actions taken by h e central bank...

This correspondence describes a new test for multivariate normality useful in pattern recognition. The test is based on the Friedman-Rafsky multivariate extension of the Wald-Wolfowitz runs test. We perform Monte-Carlo experiments to determine if the test is reliable in high dimensions with moderate sample size. We compare the test to some other tests mentioned in the literature.

OBJECTIVE Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) success rates in patients classified with Friedman stage 3 is reported as 8%. Surgical failure may result from persistent obstruction at the palate, which may be addressed by pharyngoplasty with palatal advancement (PA). The effectiveness of PA versus UPPP was evaluated by using polysomnographic outcomes in a retrospective cohort of patients classified...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.004 q Part of this research has been presented at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 (Friedman, Hasler, Brovman, & Tuchman, 2011). ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +972 54 524 2926; fax: +972 9 952 7650. E-mail addresse...

This study was conducted among health care personnel (registered nurses and nurse aides) in a public hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Work was organized in 12-hour daytime or nighttime shifts, followed by 36 hours off. The study aimed to evaluate how the nursing staff perceived the duration and quality of sleep both during and off work days, as well as their perception of alertness during working...

In cash-in-advance models, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium with zero nominal interest rates and Pareto optimal allocations place restrictions only on the very long-run, or asymptotic, behavior of the money supply. When these asymptotic conditions are satisfied, they leave the central bank with a great deal of flexibility to manage the money supply over an...

In this paper, we will present an explicit construction of Harvey Friedman which to every finitely generated group G associates a 2-generator subgroup KG 6 Sym(N) such that G embeds into KG and such that if G ∼= H, then KG = KH .

A fundamental task in machine learning is to compare the performance of multiple algorithms. This is usually performed by the frequentist Friedman test followed by multiple comparisons. This implies dealing with the well-known shortcomings of null hypothesis significance tests. We propose a Bayesian approach to overcome these problems. We provide three main contributions. First, we propose a no...