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We propose a diagnostic to assess the influence of a unit ui in the sample s, selected from a finite population U={u1,....,uN} using a sampling design D, on θ^(s) as an estimator of a population parameter θ=θ(Y1,...,YN). We adjust the definition of conditional bias (Muñoz-Picardo et al., 1995), in order to obtain an influence diagnostic in survey sampling. Conditional bias as an influence measure of unit ui (ui∈s) on θ^(s), depends on Yi and on the sampling design, D. This is a distinctive feature of sample surveys. Only in particular cases is the proposed influence measure a case-deletion diagnostic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Performance feature extraction is the primary problem in equipment performance degradation assessment. To handle the problem of high-dimensional performance characterization and complexity of calculating the performance indicators in flexible material roll-to-roll processing, this paper proposes a PCA method for extracting the degradation characteristic of roll shaft. Based on the analysis of the performance influencing factors of flexible material roll-to-roll processing roller, a principal component analysis extraction model was constructed. The original feature parameter matrix composed of 10-dimensional feature parameters such as time domain, frequency domain, and time-frequency domain vibration signal of the roll shaft was established; then, we obtained a new feature parameter matrix Z org ∗ by normalizing the original feature parameter matrix. The correlation measure between every two parameters in the matrix Z org ∗ was used as the eigenvalue to establish the covariance matrix of the performance degradation feature parameters. The Jacobi iteration method was introduced to derive the algorithm for solving eigenvalue and eigenvector of the covariance matrix. Finally, using the eigenvalue cumulative contribution rate as the screening rule, we linearly weighted and fused the eigenvectors and derived the feature principal component matrix F of the processing roller vibration signal. Experiments showed that the initially obtained, 10-dimensional features of the processing rollers' vibration signals, such as average, root mean square, kurtosis index, centroid frequency, root mean square of frequency, standard deviation of frequency, and energy of the intrinsic mode function component, can be expressed by 3-dimensional principal components F 1 , F 2 , and F 3 . The vibration signal features reduction dimension was realized, and F 1 , F 2 , and F 3 contain 98.9% of the original vibration signal data, further illustrating that the method has high precision in feature parameters' extraction and the advantage of eliminating the correlation between feature parameters and reducing the workload selecting feature parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the consequences of assuming a wrong model for multinomial data when using minimum penalized φ-divergence, also known as minimum penalized disparity estimators, to estimate the model parameters. These estimators are shown to converge to a well-defined limit. An application of the results obtained shows that a parametric bootstrap consistently estimates the null distribution of a certain class of test statistics for model misspecification detection. An illustrative application to the accuracy assessment of the thematic quality in a global land cover map is included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A test approach to the model selection problem based on characteristic functions (CFs) is proposed. The scheme is close to that proposed by Vuong (Econometrica 57:257-306, ), which is based on comparing estimates of the Kullback-Leibler distance between each candidate model and the true population. Other discrepancy measures could be used. This is specially appealing in cases where the likelihood of a model cannot be calculated or even, if it has a closed expression, it is either not easily tractable or not regular enough. In this work, the closeness is measured by means of a distance based on the CFs. As a prerequisite, some asymptotic properties of the minimum integrated squared error estimators are studied. From these properties, consistent tests for model selection based on CFs are given for separate, overlapping and nested models. Several examples illustrate the application of the proposed methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research team measured the enterprise web accessibility levels of the Forbes 250 largest enterprises using the fully automatic accessibility evaluation tool Sortsite, and presented the compliance of the evaluated websites to WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 accessibility levels. Given the recent attention to organizational leaders having ethical duties towards their dedicated employees, we propose that 'societal citizenship behaviour' concerns ethical duties of organizational leaders towards society in general and in particular to those who have less means to assert their needs. In effect, we found enterprise website accessibility levels to be in need of significant improvement. An interpretation of a positive path forward to better enterprise website accessibility levels is put forth based on a focus-group interaction and using BNML-a novel Business Narrative Modelling Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]