In many evolutionary games, such as parental care games, the length of time spent playing a realisation of the game is dependent on the strategy of an individual. Also, the payoff of a deserting male cannot be defined ...

We develop a Smooth Lasso for sparse, high dimensional, contingency tables and compare its performance with the usual Lasso and with the now classical backwards elimination algorithm. In simulation, the usual Lasso had ...

Latent variable models have been used extensively in the social sciences. In this work a latent class analysis is used to identify syndromes within Alzheimer's disease. The fitting of the model is done in a Bayesian framework, ...

A single nucleotide polymorphism or SNP is a site of the genome where variation occurs within a population. Almost all SNPs have only two alleles (variants). In this work, we consider a statistical method based on a ...

We give a counterexample of an anisotropic triangulation on which the exact solution has a second-order error of linear interpolation, while the computed solution obtained using linear finite elements is only first-order ...

The near non-identifiability of one of the parameters in the Generalized Time-Dependent Logistic (GTDL) Survival Model (MacKenzie, 1996, 1997) is discussed. A new canonical 3-parameter logistic model survival model, in ...

Objectives Rates of burnout and stress in healthcare practitioners are steadily increasing. Emergency department (ED) staff are particularly susceptible to such poor outcomes. Mantra meditation (MM) may contribute to ...

In the first part of this thesis, mathematical models describing solvent and drug diffusion in glassy polymers are investigated using both numerical and approximate methods. These models are analysed using formal ...

A semilinear second-order parabolic equation is considered in a regular and a singularly perturbed regime. For this equation, we give computable a posteriori error estimates in the maximum norm. Semidiscrete and fully ...