Members of the conjugate family of distributions arising in bioassay experiments do not have moments. In particular the posterior mean of the ED50 fails to exist under a conjugate prior.

Proportional fair scheduling (PFS) is a widely used scheduling algorithm in the wireless networks which utilizes the network resources efficiently while maintaining a balance with the fairness among the users. It is a channel aware scheduling algorithm that allocates resources to the users with...

While most research concerning thermoelectrics has focused on the enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, the $/W is a direct indication of its practical use. It is suggested that in the conventional device architecture, it is better to reduce thermoelectric material consumption...

The use of hierarchical Bayesian spatial models in the analysis of ecological data is increasingly prevalent. The implementation of these models has been heretofore limited to specifically written software that required extensive programming knowledge to create. The advent of WinBUGS provides...