"In the oil spill, greens have been given an accident--of unprecedented size in American history--that demonstrates the environmental and human consequences of our need for oil".
A humiliating week for English cricket hit a new low on Thursday lunchtime as James Whitaker, the new national selector, gave an accident-prone and occasionally toe-curling interview to Sky Sports News following the announcement of a squad for the World Twenty20 from which the absence of Kevin Pietersen was always going to be a far bigger story than any of the 15 players included.
As already seen, the negative binomial distribution can be given a an accident proneness and a "spells" interpretation in the context of accident theory in terms of a gamma mixed Poisson distribution and a Poisson distribution generalized by a logarithmic distribution (Kemp [1967]).
To determine if the participants noticed and remembered the status of the obvious clues that they failed to report in their recalls, the participants were also given a multiple choice accident questionnaire asking about various conditions and behaviors observed in the witnessed accidents.
"About two seconds later, we got another call from headquarters that said there had been a mistake, and our opponent had momentarily been given an extra 2,000 votes by accident.
In this publication, we have given an overview of the diving accidents in the Netherlands presented to our ED.
Neither was he given a map showing accident-prone signals.
"A detective there would be able to give us an accident report, and we would be able to get our son's personal effects".
When I checked out of the hotel, I was given a receipt, but by accident, the hotel gave me a receipt with the rate it had charged Priceline for my room, rather than what Priceline had charged me.
This fact is itself is very interesting as far as establishing the presence of spells is concerned, as it implies the following: if an observed accident distribution of the UGWD type has arisen from the spells model, the time intervals (0, t i ), i = 1, 2, …, n, given a total of n accidents, will be jointly distributed with the above density function.
