PROF. J. K. ROBERTSON, professor of physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, in his presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada de-livered on May 21, 1945, argues that the notions of ...

Variation is the differences between individuals of the same species, caused by genetic and environmental factors. Surveys into variation give data that are continuous, which means to come in a range, ...

For any species, a characteristic that changes gradually over a range of values shows continuous variation. Examples of such characteristics are: height weight hand span Height ranges from that of the ...

For nonparametric regression, where the regression function has discontinuity points, the kernel regression estimator and cross-validation are known to be affected by ...

Abstract: We present a principled way of deriving a continuous relaxation of a given discontinuous shrinkage operator, which is based on two fundamental results, proximal inclusion and conversion.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider the problem of efficient insurance contracts when the cost structure includes a fixed cost per claim. We prove existence of ...