We obtain a more flexible estimation procedure giving better estimates particularly when the auxiliary information is overly abundant or not fully appropriate to be completely used.
And Global Workplace Analytics, a research firm that investigates the business case for flexible work, estimates 80%-90 80%-90e United States workforce prefers to telecommute part-time.
Besides, our evaluation approach, which consists in comparing actual outcomes to predicted ones, is less parametric and more flexible than estimating treatment effects within a regression model.
This masked the important short-term increase in risk for patients with low baseline albumin, below 35 mg l 1, shown by the flexible spline estimate, for t=3 months, in Figure 3.
SloVAR obtains flexible, data-driven estimates of effective connectivity and hence is useful for building connectivity models when prior information on dynamic regional relationships is sparse.
On Morgan Stanley's estimates, "flexible" jobs, many of them in Internet-led services, could account for two-fifths of all employment in the euro area by 2007.Such has been the explosion of flexible jobs that, in France, last week's news that unemployment had fallen below 10% was greeted as a mixed blessing.
This paper presents a sensorless estimation algorithm for estimating flexible system parameters, dynamics and externally applied forces or torques due to system interaction with the environment.
The model is flexible enough to estimate some of the parameters required to estimate the cancer burden.
Multi-state models offer a flexible framework for estimating survival of individuals belonging to different states, and are particularly useful for estimating survival when the data contain missing observations (Letcher and Horton 2008).
Although Ebel's approach to estimating rating reliability is over 50 years old, it continues to provide an extremely flexible method for estimating the reliability of ratings that continues to useful today.
The results also show that reliability bounds based on linear programming provide a flexible way of estimating the range of possible failure probabilities, and that accurate estimations of the probability of failure are obtained when sufficient information is considered.
