Construction material prices (CMP) variations have become a major issue in properly budgeting construction projects. Inability to accurately forecast CMP volatility can also lead price overestimation or underestimation. Enhancing the accuracy of predictions enhance total costs. The purpose this study is present model for predicting that assist decision-makers make better decisions over life cyc...

In the context of ridge regression, the estimation of ridge (shrinkage) parameter plays an important role in analyzing data. Many efforts have been put to develop skills and methods of computing shrinkage estimators for different full-parametric ridge regression approaches, using eigenvalues. However, the estimation of shrinkage parameter is neglected for semiparametric regression models. The m...

In a multiple linear regression model, there are instances where one has to update the regression parameters. In such models as new data become available, by adding one row to the design matrix, the least-squares estimates for the parameters must be updated to reflect the impact of the new data. We will modify two existing methods of calculating regression coefficients in multiple linear regres...

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is widely used in soil and rock engineering. In a variety of conditions, it is necessary to estimate the torque required for performing the reaming operation. Nevertheless, there is not presently a convenient method to accomplish this task. In this paper, to overcome this difficulty based on the basic concepts of rock engineering systems (RES), a model for ...

the impact of climatic variations on basal area growth of basswood (ba) (tilia americana l.), american beech (be) (fagus grandifolia enrh.), bitternut hickory (bh) (caria cordiformis (wang.) k. koch), largetooth aspen (la) (populus grandidentata michx.), red maple (rm) (acer rubrum l.), red oak (ro) (quercus rubra l.), sugar maple (sm) (acer saccharum marsh.), and white ash (wa) (fraxinus a...