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An easy and low cost option for economic statistical process control using Excel
(Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2009)
ENGLISH SUMMARY : In this paper, a user-friendly, Excel program is developed to search for the optimal values of the parameters in minimizing the total cost function in both economic and economic statistical designs of the ...
The implementation of noise addition partial least squares
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)
When determining the chemical composition of a specimen, traditional laboratory techniques are often both expensive and time consuming. It is therefore preferable to employ more cost effective spectroscopic techniques such ...
Estimating the window period and incidence of recently infected HIV patients.
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)
Incidence can be defined as the rate of occurence of new infections of a disease like HIV and
is an useful estimate of trends in the epidemic. Annualised incidence can be expressed as a
proportion, namely the number of ...
The epistemology of statistical science
(SUN PReSS, 2009)
BOOK BLURB: In this book four different schools of inference, namely, frequentist, Bayesian, likelihood and fiducial are introduced and then with appropriate examples and discussions, the gaps and holes in the traditional ...
Host markers in Quantiferon supernatants differentiate active TB from latent TB infection : preliminary report
(BioMed Central, 2009-05)
Background: Interferon gamma release assays, including the QuantiFERON® TB Gold In Tube (QFT) have been shown to be accurate in diagnosing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. These assays however, do not discriminate ...