Nonparametric statistics; Estimation theory; Distribution (Probability theory)
Multistate models are a type of multi-variate survival data which provide a framework for describing a complex system where individuals transition through a series of distinct states. This research focuses on nonparametric inference for general...
Practical nursing--Examinations, questions, etc.; Practical nursing--Study and teaching; Nursing students; Prediction of scholastic success
Nursing is one of the most frequently chosen programs by those entering postsecondary institutions in preparation for a career. This is in part due to the job opportunities available, interest in healthcare, and a pending shortage of nurses in...
College dropouts--Indiana; Educational attainment--Indiana; College freshmen--Indiana; Community college students--Indiana
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if student background variables (age, gender, race, academic preparation); student status (part/full-time student), and student circumstances (commuting distance, independent/dependent...
A common research interest in medical, biological, and engineering research is determining whether certain independent variables are correlated with the survival or failure times. Standard statistical techniques cannot usually be applied for...
In this dissertation research, we aim to solve problems of two types of survival data, clustered survival data with potentially informative cluster size and sojourn time data. The methods for these two types of data are different. However, both...
This thesis is an examination of the viability of a low pH hydrogen peroxide scrubbing process for removing H 2 S acid gas present in typical biogas streams generated from dairy farm anaerobic digesters. Biogas ranges in composition based on the...
Sovereign wealth funds; International economic relations
The famous oil baron' John Paul Getty once defined his secret to success in three parts, "Rise early, work hard, strike oil." This recipe, however, has not lead to political and economic success for oil-reliant, emerging market states....
Wind power has the potential to provide access to electricity to areas lacking the resources to create industrial power plants, as well as supplement residential energy supplies. The low resource investment and ease of installation make it ideal...
Buildings; Cultural facilities; Theaters; Auditoriums
Inside Municipal War Memorial Auditorium looking toward exit, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Louisville, Kentucky. Vertical photograph of aisle leading toward auditorium exit under "Exit" sign, a hall visible beyond. Above the exit is the...
Students; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Miller Information Technology Building (Louisville, Ky.); Student unions
View looking south at the north side of the University Center as University of Louisville students exit in September, 1968. The University Center is now the Miller Information Technology Building. People: Mike Kelly.
Address: 431 W. Liberty Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Two men exit the Louisville Tuberculosis Association building carrying boxes adorned with posters. The posters show a Santa Claus face, the double-barred cross symbol of the Tuberculosis...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Children
Two groups of children and a few women pictured in front of two adjacent buildings, possibly a school, in Anchorage, Kentucky. At left, children and women exit across the lawn of a two-story brick building; at right, boys and girls sit and stand on...
Buildings; Vehicles; Airplanes; Airports; American Airlines, inc.; Biplanes; Bowman Field (Ky.)
Passengers, mostly men wearing suits and white hats with black bands, are greeted as they exit a large American Airlines biplane on the tarmac at Bowman Field, Louisville, Kentucky. The airfield, established in 1919 by Abram H. Bowman, is still in...
Buildings; Sports & recreation facilities; Country clubs; Swimming pools
Louisville Country Club swimming pool. Two lifeguards watch the pool from a stand as bathers dangle their feet in the water, exit the pool, or stand alongside the pool, where a man with outspread arms supports another man on his shoulders.
Mezzanine lounge at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. View includes part of a carpeted, curvy interior room situated in front of a partition mostly encompassed by two archways and one rectangular...
Toll booths on Louisville Municipal Bridge (now George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge), which spans the Ohio River and connects Louisville, Kentucky to Indiana. Vehicles enter and exit, and toll workers stand beside the booths. Handwritten on back of...
Large electric motor with freight cars filled with coal attached to it inside a mineshaft. . A man stands between the motor and first car, possibly on the back of the motor. Wires run across the ceiling. The shaft is supported by large wood...
Three men stand in a mineshaft in front of a car filled with coal while four more stand behind it. They are each wearing caps with headlamps. Title: 7057 Loading Cage with Car of Coal at Bottom of Shaft, Scranton, Pa. Text on left: Keystone View...
Grawemeyer Hall (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville--Buildings
Administration Building, now Grawemeyer Hall, seen from across Third Street. The brick gates by the entrance and exit to the Oval can be seen in the left and right extremes of the image. The Music Building can be seen on the left. The...
