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A Comparison of False Discovery Rate Method and Dunnett's Test for a Large Number of Treatments
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
It has become quite common nowadays to perform multiple tests simultaneously in order to detect differences of a certain trait among groups. This often leads to an inflated probability of at least one Type I Error, a ...
Model Validation and Diagnostis in Right Censored Regression
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
When censored data are present in the linear regression setting, the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and the Buckley and James (BJ) method are two algorithms that can be implemented to fit the regression model. We ...
Modeling the Winners of NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Tournament Games
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This thesis first presents a least squares regression model to identify the in-game statistics that help explain the variation in point spread for NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Tournament games. Then a logistic ...
The Impact of Automated Requisitioning Systems on the Effectiveness of Emergency Supply Chains
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This research examines the relevance of an automated requisitioning system on an emergency supply chain's performance. In this context, "automated requisitioning" refers to the ability to transmit requisitions through an ...
Medical Respite Care for Fargo-Moorhead Homeless Population: A Needs Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Homelessness continues to increase in the Fargo-Moorhead community, and little is known about the health needs of its chronically homeless population. An informal needs assessment completed in 2010 gathered feedback from ...
Form and Functionality of Additively Manufactured Parts with Internal Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The tool-less additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing processes (3DP) use incremental consolidation of feed-stock materials to construct part. The layer by layer AM processes can achieve spatial material distribution ...
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness of Rural Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Healthcare systems have a legal and moral duty to provide competent care to all consumers whom seek treatment even when natural disasters, terrorism events, pandemics, widespread chemical/radiologic exposure and other ...
Improving Adolescent Friendly Healthcare Services: Implementing Comprehensive Psychosocial Histories into Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Adolescence is a unique period of rapid physical and psychosocial growth and development. Adolescents are most often physically healthy, but as a normal part of adolescent development the population commonly experiments ...
Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Primary Care: Recommendations for Practice
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) increase the risk of childhood injury as well as long-term negative mental and physical health outcomes. ACE are defined as potentially traumatic events occurring during childhood and ...
Screening and Brief Intervention for 12-15 Year Olds in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Alcohol is a widely enjoyed, misused, and abused legal substance consumed in the United States. Although alcohol is a legal substance in the United States, the consumptions does not come without risks. Alcohol is known to ...