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Models and estimation for repeated ordinal responses, with applications to telecommunications experiments
No full textResponses made on scales with ordered categories (ordinal responses) can be analysed using multinomial models which include 'threshold parameters'. These models have become established over the last 20 years, in which time research has focused on models with location terms which allow for a change in location of the threshold parameters. These location terms explain one type of difference between patterns of ordinal responses. Another type of difference can be explained by the inclusion of scaling terms in the model.Where ordinal responses are observed repeatedly on the same subject the analyst has a challenge to explain the correlation between these intra-subject responses. This thesis presents a new approach of this challenge which involves fitting one of the multinomial models, the cumulative logit model, with subject-specific location and scaling terms. These terms may be fixed effects or random effects and both cases are investigated. The approach is motivated by data from telecommunications experiments, and when used to analyse these data, it is found that the model gives a good explanation of the correlation between intra-subject responses. A new piece of general-purpose software is introduced which allows the fitting, by maximum-likelihood, of cumulative link models with both location and scaling terms.It is possible to fit the cumulative logit model by using generalized estimating equations (GEE). One particular type of GEE is discussed in detail and referred to as 'independent binomials'. An advantage to the use of this method of fitting the cumulative logit model is its straightforward implementation. Some theoretical comparisons are performed to compare the efficiency of independent-binomials estimation of model parameters with the efficiency of maximum-likelihood estimation. It is concluded that the loss of efficiency in independent-binomials cannot be considered too great to warrant its dismissal as a method of estimation.</p
Gene Wolfe: 06-29-1982
No full textScience fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe discusses The Book of the New Sun, his reasons for focusing on science fiction and fantasy, and the likelihood of our society\u27s realizing the potential of such stories.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1063/thumbnail.jp
Clark and Doreen Wolfe
No full textPhotograph - Doreen Wolfe (nee Loxam) signing the register at her wedding to Clark Wolfe, Fort McMurray, Alberta. The marriage of the two RCMP officers was performed by Reverend Rathbon
Thomas Wolfe
No full textThe first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional writer. Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe is best known for his vivid portrayal of life in the mountains during the twentieth century. Published in 1999, Thomas Wolfe: A Writer’s Life explores Wolfe’s life and career spanning from 1900 until his early death in 1938. The author, Ted Mitchell, was a historic site interpreter at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site in Asheville. An earlier edition of this work was published by the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site without the interpretation of Mitchell
Thomas Wolfe
No full textThe first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional writer. Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe is best known for his vivid portrayal of life in the mountains during the twentieth century. Published in 1999, Thomas Wolfe: A Writer’s Life explores Wolfe’s life and career spanning from 1900 until his early death in 1938. The author, Ted Mitchell, was a historic site interpreter at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site in Asheville. An earlier edition of this work was published by the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site without the interpretation of Mitchell
Classifying patients by their characteristics and clinical presentations; the use of latent class analysis
No full textIn this article, we introduce the general statistical analysis approach known as latent class analysis and discuss some of the issues associated with this type of analysis in practice. Two recent examples from the respiratory health literature are used to highlight the types of research questions that have been addressed using this approach
Thomas Wolfe and the Walk of Fame
No full textAmerican writer Thomas Wolfe, author of many classic novels, had his stone taken from Asheville, North Carolina. President Seymour (right) was responsible for bringing Wolf's stone to Rollins College. The stone reads: "Thomas Wolfe; 1900 - 1938; Author; Look Homeward, Angel.
The optimism of Thomas Wolfe.
No full textThis thesis is an analysis of the four novels of Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, with the view of pointing out that this American author had a philosophy which was ultimately optimistic in its implications. Because of the subjectivity of Wolfe's writings and the autobiographical elements throughout his novels, the development of his optimism has been traced chronologically, considering his four novels as one massive work. Through this plan, this thesis has sought to prove that Thomas Wolfe has a place in American literature as one of its most inspired optimists
sj-xlsx-5-opp-10.1177_10781552231180875 - Supplemental material for Infective complications in cancer patients treated with subcutaneous versus intravenous trastuzumab and rituximab: An individual patient data meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-5-opp-10.1177_10781552231180875 for Infective complications in cancer patients treated with subcutaneous versus intravenous trastuzumab and rituximab: An individual patient data meta-analysis by Marliese Alexander, Kim Jachno, Kelly-Anne Phillips and
John F Seymour, Monica A Slavin, Ada Cheung, Vivian Shen, Dana Maarouf, Rory Wolfe, Senthil Lingaratnam in Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice</p
sj-xlsx-3-opp-10.1177_10781552231180875 - Supplemental material for Infective complications in cancer patients treated with subcutaneous versus intravenous trastuzumab and rituximab: An individual patient data meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-3-opp-10.1177_10781552231180875 for Infective complications in cancer patients treated with subcutaneous versus intravenous trastuzumab and rituximab: An individual patient data meta-analysis by Marliese Alexander, Kim Jachno, Kelly-Anne Phillips and
John F Seymour, Monica A Slavin, Ada Cheung, Vivian Shen, Dana Maarouf, Rory Wolfe, Senthil Lingaratnam in Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice</p
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