Poisson approximations are important whenever interest is in some counting process. Barbour et al. (Poisson Approximation, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992), Barbour and Jensen (Scand. J. Statist. 16 (1989) 75), and Kathman and Terrell (J. Statist. Plann. Inference 104(2) (2002) 315) have...

The objective of this research is to show the utility ofroles and personality characteristics to the evaluation andformation of software development teams. The goals of thisresearch include demonstrating empirically that Belbin'steam roles can be used to form and evaluate software...

This research is motivated by an issue frequently encountered in water quality monitoring and ecological assessment. One concern for researchers and watershed resource managers is how the biological community in a watershed is affected by human activities. The conventional single model approach...

The biplot display is a graph of row and column markers obtained from data that forms a two-way table. The markers are calculated from the singular value decomposition of the data matrix. The biplot display may be used with many multivariate methods to display relationships between variables and...

This dissertation examines a number of issues related to Static and Dynamic Student t Regression Models. The Static Student t Regression Model is derived and transformed to an operational form. The operational form is then examined in a series of Monte Carlo experiments. The model is judged...