A nurse educator is interested in finding out the academic and non-academic predictors of success nursing students. Given complexity educational clinical learning environments, demographic, factors (age, gender, previous training, personal stressors, demands, motivation, assignment workload, etc) influencing students’ success, she was able to list various potential contributing towards relative...

In the linear regression setting, we propose a general framework, termed weighted orthogonal components (WOCR), which encompasses many known methods as special cases, including ridge and principal regression. WOCR makes use of monotonicity inherent in to parameterize weight function. The formulation allows for efficient determination tuning parameters hence is computationally advantageous. More...

Bangladesh is still a low urbanized country although it experienced a rising trend in the level of urbanization throughout the twentieth century and had a remarkably high urban growth immediately after its independence in 1971. The country recorded the highest ever annual average growth rate (9.04) and percentage of interval variation (137.57%) in an urban population in 1974; thereafter, growth...