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Analysis of Bootstrap Techniques for Loss Reserving
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Insurance companies must have an appropriate method of estimating future reserve amounts. These values will directly influence the rates that are charged to the customer. This thesis analyzes stochastic reserving techniques ...
A Study of Influential Statistics Associated with Success in the National Football League
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This dissertation considers the most important aspects of success in the National Football League (NFL). Success is defined, for this paper, as winning individual games in the short term, and making the playoffs over the ...
Comparing Several Modeling Methods on NCAA March Madness.
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This year (2015), according to the AGA’s (American Gaming Association) research, nearly about 40 million people filled out about 70 million March Madness brackets (Moyer, 2015). Their objective is to correctly predict the ...
Drug Treatment Comparison for Total Knee Replacement Surgery
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this study, we aim to better understand how spinal block, anticoagulant, and antifibrinolytic drug treatments are associated with hospital costs, lengths of stay, prevalence of early readmissions, and prevalence of blood ...
Comparing Total Hip Replacement Drug Treatments for Cost and Length of Stay
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The objective of this study is to identify the potential effect anticoagulants, spinal blocks, and antifibrinolytics have on overall cost, length of stay, and re-admission rates for total hip replacement patients. We use ...
Identifying Significant Factors Influencing Metabolic Syndrome In China
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Metabolic Syndrome occurs when a person’s body does not properly use and store energy. The disease has five criteria: abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and impaired glucose regulation. The ...
Boundary Estimation
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The existing statistical methods do not provide a satisfactory solution to determining the
spatial pattern in spatially referenced data, which is often required by research in many areas
including geology, agriculture, ...
Where do the Differences Lie?: An Analysis of Distance Road Running Populations
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Recently, much research has been focused on the gap in performance between male and female runners. Our research is focused on examining the gap between these two running populations in depth to determine where the specific ...
Effortful Control Moderates the Association Between Emotional Instability and Binge Eating
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
We hypothesized that (H1) emotional instability would be associated with an
increased likelihood of a binge episode, and that (H2a) this relationship would be
potentiated among individuals with low cognitive control and ...
Tykes and Tenure: Navigating the University from the Standpoint of Faculty Mothers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the unique challenges faculty mothers face while navigating North Dakota State University (NDSU), and the implications their experiences have intra/interpersonally. ...