The Continuum of Care System

Abstract

The Continuum of Care System is a Decision Support System designed to assist social workers responsible for identifying and selecting alternative living arrangements for children unable to remain in their own families. The Continuum of Care System consists of two software packages called MATCH and PROFILE. MATCH produces a rank-ordered list of prospective placement alternatives by statistically comparing an individual child to groups of children previously admitted into different residential facilities. PROFILE summarizes the characteristics and problems of children at each facility in the system.     

A generalization of the compound rayleigh distribution: using a bayesian method on cancer survival times

In this paper the generalized compound Rayleigh model, exhibiting flexible hazard rate, is high¬lighted. This makes it attractive for modelling survival times of patients showing characteristics of a random hazard rate. The Bayes estimators are derived for the parameters of this model and some survival time parameters from a right censored sample. This is done with respect to conjugate and discrete priors on the parameters of this model, under the squared error loss function, Varian's asymmetric linear-exponential (linex) loss function and a weighted linex loss function. The future survival time of a patient is estimated under these loss functions. A Monte Carlo simu¬lation procedure is used where closed form expressions of the estimators cannot be obtained. An example illustrates the proposed estimators for this model.     

基于正交试验的长条薄壁板件注塑工艺参数优化与定量分析

针对塑件成型过程中体积收缩率对成型塑件尺寸精度的影响,文章选取长条薄壁板件作为研究对象,利用AMI有限元分析软件对长条薄壁板注塑成型过程进行数值模拟,采用多因素交互正交试验的方法获得常用ABS塑料在不同的工艺参数下成型薄壁件的体积收缩率。以体积收缩率为研究目标,对试验结果进行定量分析,对比分析每一个工艺参数对研究目标的贡献率,并计算得到最优的工艺参数组合,依据实验结果优化塑件成型工艺。该方法的应用为注塑成型工艺参数优化提供了定量的数据参考,是一种快速而实用的方法。     

食品检测咀嚼机器人工作空间研究

为了提高食品检测效率,改善食品检测精度,增加食品检测的客观性,文章介绍了一种基于6-UPS机构的咀嚼机器人,介绍了咀嚼机器人的结构原理,求解了机构的运动学逆解,分析了机构的工作空间影响因素,利用MATLAB编程求得机构在定姿态下的工作空间。空间轮廓图表明,该机构在定姿态下能到达人类全部真实咀嚼空间,机构设计可靠,能够模拟人类咀嚼行为对食品进行检测。     

A Comparison of Some Methods for the Selection of a Common Eigenvector Model for the Covariance Matrices of Two Groups

Two new nonparametric common principal component model selection procedures based on bootstrap distributions of the vector correlations of all combinations of the eigenvectors from two groups are proposed. The performance of these methods is compared in a simulation study to the two parametric methods previously suggested by Flury in 1988, as well as modified versions of two nonparametric methods proposed by Klingenberg in 1996 and then by Klingenberg and McIntyre in 1998. The proposed bootstrap vector correlation distribution (BVD) method is shown to outperform all of the existing methods in most of the simulated situations considered.     

Probability Generating Function Based Jeffrey's Divergence for Statistical Inference

Statistical inference procedures based on transforms such as characteristic function and probability generating function have been examined by many researchers because they are much simpler than probability density functions. Here, a probability generating function based Jeffrey's divergence measure is proposed for parameter estimation and goodness-of-fit test. Being a member of the M-estimators, the proposed estimator is consistent. Also, the proposed goodness-of-fit test has good statistical power. The proposed divergence measure shows improved performance over existing probability generating function based measures. Real data examples are given to illustrate the proposed parameter estimation method and goodness-of-fit test.     

基于自组织的大型建筑企业控制力协同进化研究

针对大型建筑企业控制力动态协同的定量化仿真问题,基于复杂系统视角,应用自组织理论分析大型建筑企业控制力自组织耦合网络作用关系,选择有效朗之万方程构建大型建筑企业控制力系统的自组织协同进化模型,通过线性近似法的性态稳定求解非线性方程的稳定性,得出大型建筑企业控制力系统协同进化演化过程的四个决定性参数,并通过MATLAB软件进行参数枚举取值,具体分析企业控制力协同演化。案例验证该模型可对大型建筑企业控制力协同演化最佳状态实现更加精确的参数取值,并发现大型建筑企业控制力协同演化最佳状态的充要条件,以及一种新的大型建筑企业控制力协同演化状态。     

空间面板杜宾模型的Bootstrap Wald-COMFAC检验研究

将共同因子约束(COMFAC)的Wald检验问题引入到空间面板模型中,讨论空间面板杜宾模型与空间面板误差模型的识别问题。蒙特卡洛模拟表明:在有限样本下,基于渐近临界值的Wald检验有着良好的检验功效,但存在着较为严重的尺度扭曲。进一步采用残差Bootstrap方法,在不损失检验功效的前提下,能够显著地降低检验的尺度扭曲。因此,残差Bootstrap方法是更为有效的检验方法。     

船舶反弯扭螺旋桨水力特性的数值模拟与分析

运用计算流体力学方法(CFD)对船舶反弯扭螺旋桨的水力特性进行数值模拟计算,获得了螺旋桨的推力系数、扭矩系数及敞水效率等水力特性参数,与试验结果进行了比较,两者吻合良好.模拟计算提供了详细的三维流场分布,可对反弯扭桨叶的工作特性和叶梢涡、尾涡及气蚀的分布状态进行深入的分析.在叶面邻近区域采用层叠式的半结构网格以适应边界层的计算要求,在边界层外的流动区域采用非结构网格,取得了较高的计算精度.     

Multivariate process dispersion monitoring without subgrouping

The memory-type adaptive and non-adaptive control charts are among the best control charts for detecting small-to-moderate changes in the process parameter(s). In this paper, we propose the Crosier CUSUM (CCUSUM), EWMA, adaptive CCUSUM (ACCUSUM) and adaptive EWMA (AEWMA) charts for efficiently monitoring the changes in the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal process without subgrouping. Using extensive Monte Carlo simulations, the length characteristics of these control charts are computed. It turns out that the ACCUSUM and AEWMA charts perform uniformly and substantially better than the CCUSUM and EWMA charts when detecting a range of shift sizes in the covariance matrix. Moreover, the AEWMA chart outperforms the ACCUSUM chart. A real dataset is used to explain the implementation of the proposed control charts.