In the last decade, image quality indices have received considerable attention to quantify the dissimilarity between two images. The codispersion coefficient, commonly used in spatial statistics to address the association ...

Several accounts put forth to explain the flash-lag effect (FLE) rely mainly on either spatial or temporal mechanisms. Here we investigated the relationship between these mechanisms by psychophysical and theoretical ...

Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. Empirical evidence in ...

Identification and categorization of geological, geotechnical, or geometallurgical domains is a common practice in the modeling of mineral deposits, in order to account for the controls exerted by categorical variables ...

Computing the agree ment betwee n 2 con tinuous sequences is of grea t interest in statistics when comparing 2 instruments or one instrument with a gold standard. The probability of agree ment quantifies the similarity ...