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| alan karr: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Allen Carr, 2009 The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking - for good. 'If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.' That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as the world's leading and most successful quit smoking expert, Allen was right to boast! Reading this book is all you need to give up smoking. You can even smoke while you read. There are no scare tactics, you will not gain weight and stopping will not feel like deprivation. If you want to kick the habit then go for it. Allen Carr has helped millions of people become happy non-smokers. His unique method removes your psychological dependence on cigarettes and literally sets you free. Accept no substitute. Five million people can't be wrong. |
| alan karr: Point Processes and Their Statistical Inference Alan Karr, 2017-09-06 First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company. |
| alan karr: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol Allen Carr, 2009-11-03 READ ALLEN CARR'S EASY WAY TO CONTROL ALCOHOL AND BECOME A HAPPY NON-DRINKER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Allen Carr established himself as the world's greatest authority on helping people stop smoking, and his internationally best-selling Easy Way to Stop Smoking has been published in over 40 languages and sold more than 10 million copies. In this classic guide, Allen applies his revolutionary method to drinking. With startling insight into why we drink and clear, simple, step-by-step instructions, he shows you the way to escape from the 'alcohol trap' in the time it takes to read this book. • A UNIQUE METHOD THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE WILLPOWER • STOP EASILY, IMMEDIATELY AND PAINLESSLY • REMOVES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED TO DRINK • REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: The Allen Carr program was... nothing short of a miracle. Anjelica Huston It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from addiction. Sir Anthony Hopkins His skill is in removing the psychological dependence. The Sunday Times |
| alan karr: Probability Alan F. Karr, 1993-08-26 This book offers a straightforward introduction to the mathematical theory of probability. It presents the central results and techniques of the subject in a complete and self-contained account. As a result, the emphasis is on giving results in simple forms with clear proofs and to eschew more powerful forms of theorems which require technically involved proofs. Throughout there are a wide variety of exercises to illustrate and to develop ideas in the text. |
| alan karr: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Allen Carr, 2004 Presents the Easyway method for quitting smoking, based on a factual understanding of the harm of cigarette addiction and practical advice on how to successfully break the habit. |
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| alan karr: Allen Carr's Easyweigh to Lose Weight Allen Carr, 1999-12-02 Lose weight and feel great in 2020. __________ Allen Carr, international bestselling author of The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, helps you to take off the pounds in no time - without dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. His revolutionary eating plan allows you to enjoy food and savour flavours all while you're losing weight. You'll be able to: - Eat your favourite foods - Follow your natural instincts - Avoid guilt, remorse and other bad feelings - Avoid worrying about digestive ailments or feeling faint - Learn to re-educate your taste - Let your appetite guide your diet A happy reader says: 'I've found the answer I've been looking for for 20 years! I've done every diet you can think of. My sister urged me to buy the book - and I'm so glad I did! It isn't someone telling you what to do, it isn't a weird eating plan, IT ISN'T A DIET! There's no guilt... There's no stuggle... There's no restrictions... You just know what to do and you know you want to do it and why!' ___________ Allen Carr was an accountant who smoked 100 cigarettes a day until he discovered EASYWAY. Having cured his own addiction he went on to write a series of bestselling books, most famously The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. His books have sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. Allen's lasting legacy is a dynamic, ongoing, global publishing programme and an ever-expanding worldwide network of clinics which help treat a range of issues including smoking, weight, alcohol and drug addiction. |
| alan karr: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Allen Carr, 2006-01-05 Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is the one that really works. It is the world's bestselling book on how to give up smoking. And this is the original and still the best edition of his classic book on how to give up smoking the easy way. Over Nine Million Copies Sold Worldwide. 'It didn't take any willpower. I didn't miss it at all and I was free' Ruby Wax Read this book and you'll never smoke another cigarette again. THE unique method: No scare tactics No weight-gain The psychological need to smoke disappears as you read Feel great to be a non-smoker Join the 25 million men and women that Allen Carr has helped give up smoking. 'Achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle' Anjelica Huston 'Instantly I was freed from my addiction. I found it not only easy but unbelievably enjoyable to stay stopped' Sir Anthony Hopkins 'This guy's brilliant. And I haven't smoked since' Ashton Kutcher Special offer: Recover the cost of this book when you attend an Allen Carr Clinic. Allen Carr was an accountant who smoked 100 cigarettes a day until he discovered EASYWAY. Having cured his own addiction he went on to write a series of bestselling books, most famously The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. His books have sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. Allen's lasting legacy is a dynamic, ongoing, global publishing programme and an ever-expanding worldwide network of clinics which help treat a range of issues including smoking, weight, alcohol and other drug addiction. |
| alan karr: The Easy Way to Stop Gambling Allen Carr, 2013-09-08 READ THIS BOOK AND BECOME A HAPPY NONGAMBLER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE Allen Carr's Easyway is a global phenomenon. It has helped millions of smokers from all over the world, and has also been successfully applied to a wide range of other issues, including drinking, overeating, and overspending. Here the method addresses the fastest growing social problem of modern times: gambling. Allen Carr explains how gamblers fall into the trap and why they keep gambling despite knowing that it's ruining their lives. By explaining the nature of the trap, he removes the desire to gamble and the fears that keep you hooked. Most important of all, you will not feel that you've made a sacrifice, you will not miss gambling, and you will enjoy life to the full without feeling in any way deprived. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle. Anjelica Huston It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction. Sir Anthony Hopkins His skill is in removing the psychological dependence. The Sunday Times |
| alan karr: Privacy in Statistical Databases Josep Domingo-Ferrer, 2006-11-27 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2006, held in December 2006 in Rome, Italy. The 31 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on methods for tabular protection, utility and risk in tabular protection, methods for microdata protection, utility and risk in microdata protection, protocols for private computation, case studies, and software. |
| alan karr: An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling Mark Pinsky, Samuel Karlin, 2011 Serving as the foundation for a one-semester course in stochastic processes for students familiar with elementary probability theory and calculus, Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Fourth Edition, bridges the gap between basic probability and an intermediate level course in stochastic processes. The objectives of the text are to introduce students to the standard concepts and methods of stochastic modeling, to illustrate the rich diversity of applications of stochastic processes in the applied sciences, and to provide exercises in the application of simple stochastic analysis to realistic problems. New to this edition: Realistic applications from a variety of disciplines integrated throughout the text, including more biological applications Plentiful, completely updated problems Completely updated and reorganized end-of-chapter exercise sets, 250 exercises with answers New chapters of stochastic differential equations and Brownian motion and related processes Additional sections on Martingale and Poisson process Realistic applications from a variety of disciplines integrated throughout the text Extensive end of chapter exercises sets, 250 with answers Chapter 1-9 of the new edition are identical to the previous edition New! Chapter 10 - Random Evolutions New! Chapter 11- Characteristic functions and Their Applications |
| alan karr: Church Turned Inside Out Linda Bergquist, Allan Karr, 2009-10-19 A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders. Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world. Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides Offers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills |
| alan karr: Forensic Analysis National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Committee on Scientific Assessment of Bullet Lead Elemental Composition Comparison, 2004-03-26 Since the 1960s, testimony by representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in thousands of criminal cases has relied on evidence from Compositional Analysis of Bullet Lead (CABL), a forensic technique that compares the elemental composition of bullets found at a crime scene to the elemental composition of bullets found in a suspect's possession. Different from ballistics techniques that compare striations on the barrel of a gun to those on a recovered bullet, CABL is used when no gun is recovered or when bullets are too small or mangled to observe striations. Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence assesses the scientific validity of CABL, finding that the FBI should use a different statistical analysis for the technique and that, given variations in bullet manufacturing processes, expert witnesses should make clear the very limited conclusions that CABL results can support. The report also recommends that the FBI take additional measures to ensure the validity of CABL results, which include improving documentation, publishing details, and improving on training and oversight. |
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| alan karr: Good Sugar Bad Sugar Allen Carr, John Dicey, 2016-08-01 READ GOOD SUGAR BAD SUGAR AND BE THE WEIGHT YOU WANT TO BE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Good Sugar Bad Sugar tackles the biggest dietary threat to the modern world: The addiction to refined sugar and processed carbohydrates, which is causing epidemics in obesity and Type 2 diabetes on a global scale. Sugar and carb consumption is an addiction that begins at birth, but once you free yourself with Easyway, you'll enjoy better health, higher levels of energy, dramatically improved body shape, and a happier, healthier lifestyle. Allen Carr has helped millions worldwide and he can do the same for you. His books have sold over 16 million copies worldwide while countless more people have been helped through his network of clinics. Allen Carr's Easyway has spread all over the world for one reason alone: BECAUSE IT WORKS. • A UNIQUE METHOD THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE WILLPOWER • REMOVES ADDICTION TO REFINED SUGAR AND PROCESSED CARBOHYDRATES • STOP EASILY, IMMEDIATELY AND PAINLESSLY • REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle. Anjelica Huston It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction. Sir Anthony Hopkins His skill is in removing the psychological dependence. The Sunday Times |
| alan karr: Church Plantology Peyton Jones, 2021-04-20 The first comprehensive textbook on effective church planting from a veteran church planter. The Apostle Paul was a veteran church planter who laid a foundation like a wise and master builder and there is much we can learn from his example. Paul indicated that there were basic skills and experiences required to successfully plant a church. Church Plantology examines the wide variety of church planting methods and ideologies in contemporary pastoral practice and outlines a biblical model based on the New Testament. During his time in prison, Paul spent much of his time writing to Titus, Timothy, and others who'd served alongside him in the trenches to complete their training as church plantings. We can continue to apply these time-tested, proven methods, following the pioneering example of the early church. Today, the casualty rate in is high. What if we could reduce the odds of failing? Church Plantology by Peyton Jones is a robust guide to planting that will help planters to provide the foundation necessary to survive beyond the initial first years so that they don't end up a walking statistic. |
| alan karr: Statistical Inference from Stochastic Processes Narahari Umanath Prabhu, 1988 Comprises the proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference on Statistical Inference from Stochastic Processes, held at Cornell University in August 1987. This book provides students and researchers with a familiarity with the foundations of inference from stochastic processes and intends to provide a knowledge of the developments. |
| alan karr: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating Allen Carr, 2019-11-01 Do you eat when you're not hungry? Or when you're angry and upset? Do you eat to control your feelings? Allen Carr's Easyway is the most successful self-help stop-smoking method of all time. It has helped millions of smokers all over the world to quit, and has since been used to treat other addictions such as drinking and gambling. Allen Carr's Easyway method works by unravelling the brainwashing that leads us to desire the very thing that is harming us, meaning that we are freed from the addiction rather than merely restricting our behavior. The Easyway method has now been applied to the problem of emotional eating. With Allen Carr's Easyway method, you can eat as much of your favorite foods as you want, whenever you want, as often as you want, and be the exact weight you want to be, without dieting, special exercise, using willpower or feeling deprived. Do you find that difficult to believe? Read this book. What people say about Allen Carr's Easyway method: The Allen Carr program was nothing short of a miracle. Anjelica Huston His skill is in removing the psychological dependence. The Sunday Times I know so many people who turned their lives around after reading Allen Carr's books. Sir Richard Branson |
| alan karr: Business Experiments with R B. D. McCullough, 2021-02-24 BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS with R A unique text that simplifies experimental business design and is dedicated to the R language Business Experiments with R offers a guide to, and explores the fundamentals of experimental business designs. The book fills a gap in the literature to provide a text on the topic of business statistics that addresses issues such as small samples, lack of normality, and data confounding. The author—a noted expert on the topic—puts the focus on the A/B tests (and their variants) that are widely used in industry, but not typically covered in business statistics textbooks. The text contains the tools needed to design and analyze two-treatment experiments (i.e., A/B tests) to answer business questions. The author highlights the strategic and technical issues involved in designing experiments that will truly affect organizations. The book then builds on the foundation in Part I and expands the multivariable testing. Since today’s companies are using experiments to solve a broad range of problems, Business Experiments with R is an essential resource for any business student. This important text: Presents the key ideas that business students need to know about experiments Offers a series of examples, focusing on a specific business question Helps develop the ability to frame ill-defined problems and determine what data and analysis would provide information about that problem Written for students of general business, marketing, and business analytics, Business Experiments with R is an important text that helps to answer business questions by highlighting the strategic and technical issues involved in designing experiments that will truly affect organizations. |
| alan karr: A Sampling-based Computational Strategy for the Representation of Epistemic Uncertainty in Model Predictions with Evidence Theory Jon C. Helton, J. D. Johnson, William L. Oberkampf, C. B. Storlie, 2006 |
| alan karr: Survey of Sampling-based Methods for Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Jon C. Helton, C. B. Storlie, 2006 |
| alan karr: Behavioural and Network Impacts of Driver Information Systems Richard Emmerink, Peter Nijkamp, 2018-03-28 Originally published in 1999, this volume contains a systematic collection of both theoretical and applied studies on user information systems for road users. It is generally expected that reliable information offered to road users will improve the use of scarce capacity on transport networks but from a research perspective the question arises whether the provision of such hard and software will influence the behaviour of road users to such an extent that a more desirable traffic situation will emerge. The book contains European, American and Asian contributions and presents advances and findings in the field of theoretical, simulation and empricial models on driver information systems and behaviour, whilst also paying attention to the design of such systems. |
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| alan karr: General Concepts for Experimental Validation of ASCI Code Applications Timothy G. Trucano, Martin Pilch, William L. Oberkampf, 2002 This report presents general concepts in a broadly applicable methodology for validation of Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) codes for Defense Programs applications at Sandia National Laboratories. The conncepts are defined and analyzed within the context of their relative roles in an experimental validation process. Examples of applying the proposed methodology to three existing experimental validation activities are provided in appendices, using an appraisal technique recommended in this report. |
| alan karr: Analytic Combinatorics for Multiple Object Tracking Roy Streit, Robert Blair Angle, Murat Efe, 2020-11-26 The book shows that the analytic combinatorics (AC) method encodes the combinatorial problems of multiple object tracking—without information loss—into the derivatives of a generating function (GF). The book lays out an easy-to-follow path from theory to practice and includes salient AC application examples. Since GFs are not widely utilized amongst the tracking community, the book takes the reader from the basics of the subject to applications of theory starting from the simplest problem of single object tracking, and advancing chapter by chapter to more challenging multi-object tracking problems. Many established tracking filters (e.g., Bayes-Markov, PDA, JPDA, IPDA, JIPDA, CPHD, PHD, multi-Bernoulli, MBM, LMBM, and MHT) are derived in this manner with simplicity, economy, and considerable clarity. The AC method gives significant and fresh insights into the modeling assumptions of these filters and, thereby, also shows the potential utility of various approximation methods that are well established techniques in applied mathematics and physics, but are new to tracking. These unexplored possibilities are reviewed in the final chapter of the book. |
| alan karr: Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, 2011-07-27 On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of the topics considered at that symposium was the health of innovation in the federal statistical system. A consequence of the symposium was an agreement by the Committee on National Statistics to hold a workshop on the future of innovation in the federal statistical system. This workshop was held on June 29, 2010. The original statement of task for the workshop focused on three challenges to the statistical system: (1) the obstacles to innovative, focused research and development initiatives that could make statistical programs more cost effective; (2) a gap between emerging data visualization and communications technologies and the ability of statistical agencies to understand and capitalize on these developments for their data dissemination programs; and (3) the maturation of the information technology (IT) discipline and the difficulties confronting individual agencies in keeping current with best practice in IT regarding data confidentiality. This report, Facilitating Innovation in the Federal Statistical System, is a descriptive summary of what transpired at the workshop. It is therefore limited to the views and opinions of the workshop participants. However, it does not strictly follow the agenda of the workshop, which had four sessions. Instead, it is organized around the themes of the discussions, which migrated across the four sessions. |
| alan karr: Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program, 2005-05-29 The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a large, linked database of patient information that was developed jointly by CDC and several private managed care organizations in 1991. It includes data on vaccination histories, health outcomes, and characteristics of more than 7 million patients of eight participating health organizations. Researchers from CDC and the managed care groups have used VSD information to study whether health problems are associated with vaccinations. The subsequent VSD data sharing program was launched in 2002 to allow independent, external researchers access to information in the database. In this report, the committee that was asked to review aspects of this program recommends that two new oversight groups are needed to ensure that the policies and procedures of the VSD and its data sharing program are implemented as fairly and openly as possible. |
| alan karr: Particles and Waves Peter Achinstein, 1991-04-18 This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. How, if at all, is it possible to confirm scientific hypotheses about unobservables? Achinstein examines this question as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the electron. The book contains three parts, each devoted to one of these topics, beginning with an essay presenting the historical background of the episode and an introduction to the philosophical issues. There is an illuminating evaluation of various scientific methodologies, including hypothetico-deductivism, inductivism, and the method of independent warrant which combines features of the first two. Achinstein assesses the philosophical validity of both nineteenth-century and modern answers to questions about unobservables, and presents and defends his own solutions. |
| alan karr: General Equilibrium Economics Robert E. Kuenne, 1992-06-18 A collection of published papers in general equilibrium that explore the basic problems of extensive interdependence in models incorporating oligopoly, space, time and money. Robert E. Kuenne has also written The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium. |
| alan karr: Extension of Latin Hypercube Samples with Correlated Variables C. J. Sallaberry, Jon C. Helton, S. C. Hora, 2006 |
| alan karr: Statistical Validation of Engineering and Scientific Models Richard G. Hills, Ian H. Leslie, Kevin J. Dowding, 2004 |
| alan karr: The Good Doctor Kenneth Brigham, Michael M. E. Johns, 2020-07-07 What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine. Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't everything, someone who is able to change her mind as the information changes. For too long we've clung to the myth of the infallible doctor--one who assuredly tells us this is what's wrong and here is how I will cure you--and our health has suffered for it. Brigham and Johns propose a new model of medicine, one that is comfortable with ambiguity and that centers on an equal partnership between patient and doctor. Uncertainty, properly embraced, opens a new universe of possibilities. |
| alan karr: Case Study for Model Validation Kevin J.. Dowding, Richard G. Hills, Ian Leslie, Martin Pilch, Brian M. Rutherford, Michael L. Hobbs, 2004 |
| alan karr: Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models Chong Gu, 2013-03-09 Nonparametric function estimation with stochastic data, otherwise known as smoothing, has been studied by several generations of statisticians. Assisted by the recent availability of ample desktop and laptop computing power, smoothing methods are now finding their ways into everyday data analysis by practitioners. While scores of methods have proved successful for univariate smoothing, ones practical in multivariate settings number far less. Smoothing spline ANOVA models are a versatile family of smoothing methods derived through roughness penalties that are suitable for both univariate and multivariate problems. In this book, the author presents a comprehensive treatment of penalty smoothing under a unified framework. Methods are developed for (i) regression with Gaussian and non-Gaussian responses as well as with censored life time data; (ii) density and conditional density estimation under a variety of sampling schemes; and (iii) hazard rate estimation with censored life time data and covariates. The unifying themes are the general penalized likelihood method and the construction of multivariate models with built-in ANOVA decompositions. Extensive discussions are devoted to model construction, smoothing parameter selection, computation, and asymptotic convergence. Most of the computational and data analytical tools discussed in the book are implemented in R, an open-source clone of the popular S/S- PLUS language. Code for regression has been distributed in the R package gss freely available through the Internet on CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network. The use of gss facilities is illustrated in the book through simulated and real data examples. |
| alan karr: Verification, Validation, and Predictive Capability in Computational Engineering and Physics William L. Oberkampf, Timothy Guy Trucano, Ch Hirsch, 2003 Developers of computer codes, analysts who use the codes, and decision makers who rely on the results of the analyses face a critical question: How should confidence in modeling and simulation be critically assessed? Verification and validation (V & V) of computational simulations are the primary methods for building and quantifying this confidence. Briefly, verification is the assessment of the accuracy of the solution to a computational model. Validation is the assessment of the accuracy of a computational simulation by comparison with experimental data. In verification, the relationship of the simulation to the real world is not an issue. In validation, the relationship between computation and the real world, i.e., experimental data, is the issue. This paper presents our viewpoint of the state of the art in V & V in computational physics. (In this paper we refer to all fields of computational engineering and physics, e.g., computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, structural dynamics, shock wave physics, computational chemistry, etc., as computational physics.) We do not provide a comprehensive review of the multitudinous contributions to V & V, although we do reference a large number of previous works from many fields. We have attempted to bring together many different perspectives on V & V, highlight those perspectives that are effective from a practical engineering viewpoint, suggest future research topics, and discuss key implementation issues that are necessary to improve the effectiveness of V & V. We describe our view of the framework in which predictive capability relies on V & V, as well as other factors that affect predictive capability. Our opinions about the research needs and management issues in V & V are very practical: What methods and techniques need to be developed and what changes in the views of management need to occur to increase the usefulness, reliability, and impact of computational physics for decision making about engineering systems? We review the state of the art in V & V over a wide range of topics, for example, prioritization of V & V activities using the Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table (PIRT), code verification, software quality assurance (SQA), numerical error estimation, hierarchical experiments for validation, characteristics of validation experiments, the need to perform nondeterministic computational simulations in comparisons with experimental data, and validation metrics. We then provide an extensive discussion of V & V research and implementation issues that we believe must be addressed for V & V to be more effective in improving confidence in computational predictive capability. Some of the research topics addressed are development of improved procedures for the use of the PIRT for prioritizing V & V activities, the method of manufactured solutions for code verification, development and use of hierarchical validation diagrams, and the construction and use of validation metrics incorporating statistical measures. Some of the implementation topics addressed are the needed management initiatives to better align and team computationalists and experimentalists in conducting validation activities, the perspective of commercial software companies, the key role of analysts and decision makers as code customers, obstacles to the improved effectiveness of V & V, effects of cost and schedule constraints on practical applications in industrial settings, and the role of engineering standards committees in documenting best practices for V & V. |
| alan karr: Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16 Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta, Paul De Hert, 2024-05-02 This book explores the complexity and depths of our digital world by providing a selection of analyses and discussions from the 16th annual international conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP): Ideas that Drive Our Digital World. The first half of the book focuses on issues related to the GDPR and data. These chapters provide a critical analysis of the 5-year history of the complex GDPR enforcement system, covering: codes of conduct as a potential co-regulation instrument for the market; an interdisciplinary approach to privacy assessment on synthetic data; the ethical implications of secondary use of publicly available personal data; and automating technologies and GDPR compliance. The second half of the book shifts focus to novel issues and ideas that drive our digital world. The chapters offer analyses on social and environmental sustainability of smart cities; reconstructing states as information platforms; stakeholder identification using the example of video-based Active and Assisted Living (AAL); and a human-centred approach to dark patterns. This interdisciplinary book takes readers on an intellectual journey into a wide range of issues and cutting-edge ideas to tackle our ever-evolving digital landscape. |
| alan karr: On the Role of Code Comparisons in Verification and Validation Timothy G. Trucano, Martin Pilch, William L. Oberkampf, 2003 This report presents a perspective on the role of code comparison activities in verification and validation. We formally define the act of code comparison as the Code Comparison Principle (CCP) and investigate its application in both verification and validation. One of our primary conclusions is that the use of code comparisons for validation is improper and dangerous. We also conclude that while code comparisons may be argued to provide a beneficial component in code verification activities, there are higher quality code verification tasks that should take precedence. Finally, we provide a process for application of the CCP that we believe is minimal for achieving benefit in verification processes. |
| alan karr: Quantitative Studies in the Geological Sciences H. Timothy Whitten, 1975-01-01 |
| alan karr: Seminar on Integrating Federal Statistical Information and Processes , 2001 |
| alan karr: Proceedings of a Workshop on Statistics on Networks Scott T. Weidman, 2007-10-30 A large number of biological, physical, and social systems contain complex networks. Knowledge about how these networks operate is critical for advancing a more general understanding of network behavior. To this end, each of these disciplines has created different kinds of statistical theory for inference on network data. To help stimulate further progress in the field of statistical inference on network data, the NRC sponsored a workshop that brought together researchers who are dealing with network data in different contexts. This book - which is available on CD only - contains the text of the 18 workshop presentations. The presentations focused on five major areas of research: network models, dynamic networks, data and measurement on networks, robustness and fragility of networks, and visualization and scalability of networks. |
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More subtly (Oganian, Reiter, and Karr 2009), it is also an issue of query interaction: by comparing the results of two queries on subsets of the data differing by one subject, …
Deming, data and observational studies - niss.org
Some have suggested that the scientific method is failing, that nature itself is playing tricks on us. But it is our way of studying nature that is broken and that urgently needs mending, say S. …
NISS and Duke Receive Five-Year Grant from NSF for Triangle …
Alan Karr, Director of NISS, was faculty who have served at least a year at elected into membership in the Johns Johns Hopkins and thereafter gained marked Hopkins Society of …
report.dvi - NISS
Alan Karr: Web-Based Systems for Disclosure–Limited Analysis of Confidential Data. This talk described the NISS Digital Government project, which is building prototype systems to …
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realization that there should be two closely linked institutes: • A m NISS, addressing cross-disciplinary, cross-sector statistical challenges arising in government and industry. Alan Karr, …
Integer Prim-Read Solutions to a Class of Target Defense …
We go on to compute the optimal defense for all values of r in the range [1/10, 1). Table 2 contains the results. In [4], Karr derives the optimal total -5,n((|)! In q when 1/r is an integer …
A Generalized Stochastic Lanchester Attrition Process
In this paper we present a stochastic Lanchester-type mathematical model of the attrition suffered in a combat between two heterogeneous forces. The model is based on a four-category …
Statistical Disclosure Limitation and Edit Imputation
How should one integrate statistical disclosure limitation and edit-imputation? Agency seeks to disseminate microdata on individual records. We work with data that are all continuous, …
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Dec 7, 2006 · Numerical Data: Broad Measures Distance measures Kullback-Liebler(Karr, et al., TAS, 2006) Only feasible (approximately) for normal data Distribution functions (Woo, et al., …
What Can Research on Data Confidentiality Teach Us about …
My World View From Karr et al. (2006): Data quality is the capability of data to be used effectively, economically and rapidly to inform and evaluate decisions. Put differently, DQ measures the …
Alan Karr Takes Position at RTI, Search for New Director …
Alan Karr, Director of NISS since 2000, has announced that he will leave NISS at the end of August. In September, he will become Director of the Center of Excellence for Complex Data …
2012-30180 - ptab.illinois.gov
The parties of record before the Property Tax Appeal Board are Alan Karr, the appellant(s), by attorney Stephanie Park, of Park & Longstreet, P.C. in Rolling Meadows; and the Cook County …
Probability Theory
Alan F. Karr, “Probability,” Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1993, 282pp. A lucid, graduate-level introduction to the subject. George Casella and Roger L. Berger, “Statistical Inference,” 2nd …
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In general, measuring, let alone improving, data quality is expensive and/or impossible. In our experiments we employ the strategy articulated in A. F. Karr, et al. (2022), Measuring quality …
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Solution Probability By Alan F Karr ; JR Anderson Full PDF vols
Their ability to kindle emotions, provoke contemplation, and ignite transformative change is actually awe-inspiring. Enter the realm of "Solution Probability By Alan F Karr," a mesmerizing …
RTI International Presentations at Joint Statistical Meetings 2017
CC-Halls A&B Public Use vs. Restricted Use: A Case Study Using the American Community Survey Saki Kinney, Alan Karr
Launching the Society for Privacy and Confidentiality Research …
We are confident and excited that this transition places JPC on a sound path forward. To review the history briefly, JPC was founded in 2008 by Cynthia Dwork, the late Stephen Fienberg and …
Stochastic Attrition Models of Lanchester Type
The purpose of the research effort summarized in this paper is to give a careful, rigorous, and unified structure to a class of stochastic attrition models originated by F. W. Lanchester.
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4.3 Alan Karr: Principled Cost-Quality Trade-offs The presentation outlined an abstract—until data and specifics are present—framework for comparing deci-sions at the design, intervention or …
National Institute of Statistical Sciences Data …
More subtly (Oganian, Reiter, and Karr 2009), it is also an issue of query interaction: by comparing the results of two queries on subsets of the data differing by one subject, …
Deming, data and observational studies - niss.org
Some have suggested that the scientific method is failing, that nature itself is playing tricks on us. But it is our way of studying nature that is broken and that urgently needs mending, say S. …
NISS and Duke Receive Five-Year Grant from NSF for Triangle …
Alan Karr, Director of NISS, was faculty who have served at least a year at elected into membership in the Johns Johns Hopkins and thereafter gained marked Hopkins Society of …
report.dvi - NISS
Alan Karr: Web-Based Systems for Disclosure–Limited Analysis of Confidential Data. This talk described the NISS Digital Government project, which is building prototype systems to …
A quarterly newsletter from the National Institute of Statistical ...
realization that there should be two closely linked institutes: • A m NISS, addressing cross-disciplinary, cross-sector statistical challenges arising in government and industry. Alan Karr, …
Integer Prim-Read Solutions to a Class of Target Defense …
We go on to compute the optimal defense for all values of r in the range [1/10, 1). Table 2 contains the results. In [4], Karr derives the optimal total -5,n((|)! In q when 1/r is an integer …
