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Creator:: Maurer, Joseph D.
Abstract:: Turbines at wind projects pose a threat to birds and bats flying at altitudes within the rotor swept area. These animals die from colliding with the turbine blades. Estimating mortality, or the total number of bird or bat fatalities at a wind project, is critical to understanding environmental impacts of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: plot displays the name of the distribution used to assign distance, f (r) (Figure 3.7). “Rate” refers

Creator:: Totty, Njesa
Abstract:: In this dissertation we present a compilation of the research conducted during the author’s doctoral program. In the first part, we discuss a case study regarding the impact of scholar-ships on student success at Oregon State University (OSU). Specifically, we look at the grad-uation and retention rates and aim to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Education: Contributions to Teaching and Data Analysis Abstract approved: Claudio Fuentes James Molyneux

Creator:: Brintz, Benjamin J.
Abstract:: N-mixture models provide a structure for making inference about a local population size while accounting for imperfect detection. Using a binomial likelihood, they assume prior distributions on the size parameters and then integrate those parameters out of the full likelihood. For large population sizes, the established frequentist methods have exhibited...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: }) = R ∏ i=1 { ∞ ∑ Ni=maxtnit [ S ∏ t=1 Bin(nit ;Ni, p) ] f (Ni;θ) } . (1.3) where θ is the

Creator:: Biswas, Arpan
Abstract:: Practical engineering design problems are generally multi-disciplinary with limited budget and high risk in terms of life loss, economic resources, etc. In the early phase of such problems, selection of true efficient designs is desired while minimizing overall design cost by avoiding expensive search processes. However, the task is difficult...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . To my advisors Dr. Christopher Hoyle and Dr. Claudio Fuentes for showing such faith in me to work

Creator:: Dumelle, Michael J.
Abstract:: We describe spatio-temporal random processes using linear mixed models and discuss estimation, inference, and prediction under this formulation. We show how many commonly used covariances are special cases of this more general framework and pay special attention to the separable and product-sum covariances. The linear mixed model formulation facilitates straightforward...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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