Purpose: Partial least squares (PLS) has been introduced as a “causal-predictive” approach to structural equation modeling (SEM), designed to overcome the apparent dichotomy between explanation and prediction. However, while researchers using PLS-SEM routinely stress the predictive nature...

type="main" xml:id="rssa12007-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We define the concept of information quality ‘InfoQ’ as the potential of a data set to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal by using a given empirical analysis method. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but...</p>

While many methods have been proposed for detecting disease outbreaks from pre-diagnostic data, their performance is usually not well understood. We argue that most existing temporal detection methods for biosurveillance can be characterized as a forecasting component coupled with a...

We introduce a general theoretical framework, based on the Markov chain imbedding approach, that leads to the run-length distribution for a multitude of control charts that are based on a simple rule or on a compound set of rules.