One of the first tasks when managing a project is the cost estimate. A cost estimate must be accurate, transparent and reliable. These factors are particularly important for a small business because ...

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State estimation and filtering techniques form the backbone of modern control, signal processing and data fusion methodologies. These techniques are employed to infer the internal states of a dynamic ...

The Weibull distribution remains an indispensable tool in reliability engineering and lifetime analysis, offering flexibility for modelling diverse failure behaviours. Modern parameter estimation ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 1352-1362 (11 pages) This paper uses resampling estimation techniques to develop a statistical mathematical programming ...

Drilling costs can be estimated with a combination of established, analytic techniques. This article, concluding a three-part series, presents a general framework to estimate costs with a formalized ...

Though conceptually appealing, it is impossible to fully account in practice for all the individual decisions and behaviors that constitute the nation’s water use. Nevertheless, statistical sampling ...

The network autocorrelation model has been the workhorse for estimating and testing the strength of theories of social influence in a network. In many network studies, different types of social ...

Several states with extensive water use databases rely upon the census approach. That is, data are collected for all water users withdrawing amounts greater than a specified threshold that varies from ...