The Dirichlet distribution is often used as a prior distribution for the parameters of a multinomial distribution. Because this distribution has support on the simplex 0[less-than-or-equals, slant]xi[less-than-or-equals, slant]1, [summation operator]xi=1, it does not serve as the prior for a...

Fe73.7Si15.3Cu1Nb3B7 nanocrystalline alloy was subjected to longitudinal magnetic field(LMF) annealing treatment, and the influence of different magnetic field strengths(MFS) on the magnetic properties and microstructure of the nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy were investigated. The results...

The high cost of medical care and its association with poverty have given rise to a growing concern for developing countries, but how insurance plans affect household income and alleviate poverty has been rarely discussed. This study aims to bridge this research gap by examining a medical...

Abstract The increasing availability of passively observed data has yielded a growing interest in “data fusion” methods, which involve merging data from observational and experimental sources to draw causal conclusions. Such methods often require a precarious tradeoff between the unknown...

Rankings based on counts are often presented to identify popular items, such as baby names, English words, or Web sites. This article shows that, in some examples, the number of correctly identified items can be very small. We introduce a standard error versus rank plot to diagnose possible...