background: there is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. we estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in iranian population. methods: for measu...

We present a finite time local search (1 + δ)-approximation method finding the optimal solution with probability almost one with respect to a general measure of within group-dissimilarity. The algorithm is based on a finite-time Markov model of the simulated annealing. A dynamic cooling schedule, allows the control of the convergence. The algorithm uses as measure of within group dissimilarity ...

Global biodiversity change creates a need for standardized monitoring methods. Modelling and mapping spatial patterns of community composition using high-dimensional remotely sensed data requires adapted methods adequate to such datasets. Sparse generalized dissimilarity modelling is designed to deal with high dimensional datasets, such as time series or hyperspectral remote sensing data. In th...

Fuzzy sets theory has several applications in biomedicine. The dissimilarity of fuzzy sets is used for this purpose. In this paper, we present the generalized equation of the dissimilarity of fuzzy sets. This relation is based on the set theoretic point of view. The parameter of this generalized equation and also its relation to a recently introduced metric defined in fuzzy hypercube are discus...