In the first year at high school or college students are called “freshmen”, in the second they’re called “sophomores”, in the third year we call them “juniors” and in the fourth year they’re called “seniors”. Now a lot of high school graduates then go to college or university...
800 km2, about 2% of China's land area. As the province with the largest economy and fastest development in China, Guangdong's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has reached 11% of
Consumer electronic word of mouth (eWOM) adoption in the selection of tourist attractions differs between hotels and restaurants, for two main reasons. First, some attractions are free, whereas others require an entry fee. A research question arises: does the perceived helpfulness of online reviews...
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Not at all. What it does mean is that we need to apply care. One way of doing so is by thinking probabilistically: if gunpowder has exploded under these conditions every time in the past, it is very likely that gunpowder will explode under these conditions in the future; similarly, if ...
This occurs when a short-priced horse comes under starter's orders but does not start. The absence of an SP for the non-starter results in the probability-odds for that race totalling less than 1. The recorded odds do not then represent the complete market. These races have been excluded...
Graphical representations of speech generate powerful computational measures related to psychosis. Previous studies have mostly relied on structural relations between words as the basis of graph formation, i.e., connecting each word to the next in a sequ
But what does this mean? Partly, it means being able to properly evaluate the data and claims that bombard you every day. If you cannot distinguish good from faulty reasoning, then you are vulnerable to manipulation and to decisions that are not in your best interest. Statistics provides ...
Currently, at the country level, agricultural certification has poor representation in the world's 31 poorest countries (those classified by the World Bank as low income) and for staple crops of low export value (Tayleur et al., 2016). Analogously, within the forestry sector, certification has...
The argument is that the fractional model will represent the original system more closely by choosing some particular exponents of the fractional derivatives. However, the introduction of fractional derivatives is not trivial and should be considered carefully. Firstly, in some cases, there is no ...