The initial purpose of this study was to develop a reliable method
for the determination of vitamin B₆ in blood. At the present time
microbiological assays have demonstrated greater sensitivity and
specificity than other methods for the of vitamin B₆ in
pure solution and many foodstuffs. However, adetermination pplication of...
Laboratory experiments and simulated field conditions were
utilized to gain a better understanding of the ecology of the clouded
salamander.
Animals collected in western Oregon were utilized for studies
in habitat selection, where it was shown that there was a significant
pattern of selection of litter types (rock, bark, and...
A study of the Pacific coast Band-tailed pigeon (Columbia fasciata Say) was conducted from August 1966 to September 1968. Bands recovered from 14,787 pigeons banded in the Pacific Coast states, 1929-65, were used to determine distribution, migration, and mortality. Data on the age structure of populations were obtained from 3,596...
Thermal oxidation of methyl oleate was studied over a range of temperatures from 50 C to 150 C for periods of time up to 30 min. Degradation was quantitatively followed by gas liquid chromatography (GLC) and liquid scintillation counting of the products of methyl oleate-U-14C heated under a stream of...
The exponential family of probability distributions is obtained
from σ-finite measures on the real line. We choose the parameter
space to be one-dimensional and the exponent to be linear. Relationships
between the measure, its spectrum, and the parameter space
are examined, moments of the exponential family are studied, and
the...
The purpose of this thesis is to construct several stochastic
process models for combined statistical dynamic prediction of the
500-millibar pressure surface for the northern hemisphere. To
achieve this, a random forcing function is added to the spectral form
of the nondivergent vorticity equation. Three models, one linear and
two...
An iterative approach is suggested for the estimation
of the error covariance matrix [sigma] to find approximate BLUE
estimators in linear regression models.
It is shown through
experimental studies how the variances can be estimated in
the simple general linear regression model, in the linear
regression model sequenced over time,...