This article uses ARIMA and Tobit analysis to examine the impact on officer behavior of changes in a policy governing "hot" pursuits of fleeing suspects. Using a 2-year time series, aggregated by week, we calculated the impact on pursuit behavior of two changes in pursuit policy: a requirement...

The UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines recommend routine prescription of antidepressants for moderate to severe depression. While many patients accept a prescription, one in three do not complete treatment. We carried out a meta-ethnography of published...

Distributions of triplets in some genetic sequences are examined and found to be well described by a two-parameter Markov process with a sparse transition matrix. The standard deviations of all the relevant parameters are not large, indicating that most sequences gather in a small region in the...