Search for dissertations about: "sampling theories"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words sampling theories.
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1. On the Application of the Bootstrap : Coefficient of Variation, Contingency Table, Information Theory and Ranked Set Sampling
Abstract : This thesis deals with the bootstrap method. Three decades after the seminal paper by Bradly Efron, still the horizons of this method need more exploration. The research presented herein has stepped into different fields of statistics where the bootstrap method can be utilized as a fundamental statistical tool in almost any application. READ MORE
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2. Efficient sampling of Bayesian posteriors and predictive distributions in χEFT
Abstract : In this thesis I employ Bayesian statistics to quantify parametric and epistemic uncertainties in chiral effective field theories (χEFT) and propagate these forward to predictions of observables in low-energy nuclear physics. Two primary sources of uncertainty---experimental errors and the theoretical error induced by the truncation of the EFT at up to next-to-next-to-leading-order---are modelled and accounted for in the posterior distributions of the unknown low-energy constants (LECs) that govern interaction strengths in χEFT. READ MORE
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3. Nitriles in Prebiotic Chemistry and Astrobiology
Abstract : Life appeared on Earth within a billion years of the planet’s formation. How? - no one knows. Theories regarding the origin of life involve reactions of molecules predicted to have existed on early Earth in what is called prebiotic chemistry. READ MORE
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4. Extending the reach of uncertainty quantification in nuclear theory
Abstract : The theory of the strong interaction—quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—is unsuited to practical calculations of nuclear observables and approximate models for nuclear interaction potentials are required. In contrast to phenomenological models, chiral effective field theories (χEFTs) of QCD grant a handle on the theoretical uncertainty arising from the truncation of the chiral expansion. READ MORE
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5. The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process : Testing a Signaling Model
Abstract : Most theories of ethnic conflict explain ethnic war by reference to the factors that motivate and enable ethnic groups to rebel. To rebel is to rise up against or challenge government authority; but for war to be the outcome of a challenge the government must attempt to forcefully reassert its authority. READ MORE
