Submitted by JOÃO RAFAEL DE CONTE CARVALHO DE ALENCAR (jralencar@gmail.com) on 2016-08-02T21:26:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Completa João 31-06-2016.pdf: 1972389 bytes, checksum: 65cb391e11ab0faad1c090aead364836 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-08-04T18:22:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 alencar_jrdcc_dr_jabo.pdf: 1972389 bytes, checksum: 65cb391e11ab0faad1c090aead364836 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-04T18:22:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 alencar_jrdcc_dr_jabo.pdf: 1972389 bytes, checksum: 65cb391e11ab0faad1c090aead364836 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A cana-de-açúcar é uma das principais culturas do Brasil em área e produção, lhe conferindo problemas fitossanitários em igual proporção. Dentre estes problemas os insetos-praga acabam por limitar a produtividade. Sphenophorus levis é conhecido como uma das principais pragas da cana-de-açúcar. O gorgulho-da-cana tem a amostragem e o controle difíceis de serem realizados devido ao seu hábito subterrâneo durante as fases iniciais de desenvolvimento. Este trabalho, portanto teve como objetivo estudar a dinâmica populacional. o padrão de distribuição e desenvolver um plano de amostragem sequencial de S. levis na cultura da cana-de-açúcar. Foram levantados dados da praga em uma área de 1,05 hectares entre o segundo e o terceiro corte da cultura, em duas safras seguidas 2013/2014 e 2014/2015. As áreas foram divididas em 100 parcelas onde se realizou a contagem de larvas, pupas e adultos, soma das formas biológicas e rizomas atacados pelo gorgulho da cana. Para isso, foram amostradas duas trincheiras por parcela de 0,5 x 0,5 x 0,5 m (largura, altura e profundidade) a cada duas semanas. E para os adultos também foi usado armadilhas com toletes tratados com melaço de cana. Com estes dados coletados foi possível verificar satisfatoriamente a praga e seus danos, e constatar que eles permanecem o ano inteiro presentes na área de cultivo. Além disso, foi determinado os períodos em que cada fase de desenvolvimento ocorram com maior e menor incidência, e correlacionar estes dados aos fatores do clima como a temperatura máxima, média e mínima, precipitação e umidade relativa do ar. Através do método “stepwise” foi constatado que a temperatura mínima, precipitação e umidade relativa do ar, são as variáveis climáticas que mais interferem no desenvolvimento de S. levis. Quanto à distribuição espacial, foi notório que tantos os índices de dispersão estudados, razão variância/média, índice de Morisita, coeficiente de Green e o expoente k da distribuição binomial negativa, indicaram que o gorgulho-da-cana e seus danos são altamente agregados. Este resultado foi confirmado com o melhor ajuste ao modelo probabilístico de distribuição pelo teste do qui-quadrado da distribuição binomial negativa. Além disso, foi estimado o k comum para desenvolver o plano de amostragem sequencial para os rizomas atacados por S. levis, utilizando-se os dados do teste da razão da máxima verossimilhança, com nível de controle de 10 e 5% de rizomas atacados, com número máximo de unidades amostrais esperado de 21 trincheiras. / The sugarcane is one of the main Brazilian crops in area as well in production. This fact ensures major phytosanitary problems associated too. Among these problems pests end up limiting production in several areas. Sphenophorus levis is known as one of the major pests of sugar cane. The sugarcane weevil sampling and control are difficult to done due their subterranean habit during the early stages of life. Therefore, this work aimed to study the population dynamics, the distribution pattern and to develop a sequential sampling plan for S. levis in sugarcane crops. Pest's data were raised from areas of 1.05 hectares between the second and third harvest cycle in two crops, 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. The areas were divided into 100 plots, where was held the counting of larval, pupae, adults and sum of biological forms from the weevil. The rhizomes attacked by this pest were also counted. For this, were sampled two trenches of 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 m (width, height and depth) every two weeks. Also, the adults were collected with pieces of sugarcane treated with molasses in traps. With these collected data was possible to check satisfactorily that the pest and its damage still present for all the crop. In Addition, it was Determined the periods of each development phase, occurring with greater and lesser incidence. Maximum, medial and minimal temperature, such as precipitation and relative humidity were correlated by stepwise method with the dynamics of the pest and its damage. It was found that the minimum temperature, precipitation and relative humidity, are climate variables that most affect the development of S. levis The dispersion indexes studied were variance/mean ratio, Morisita index, Green coefficient and the exponent k of the negative binomial distribution. They indicated that the sugarcane weevil and their damage are highly aggregated. This result was confirmed by the greater fit to the probabilistic distribution model, using the chi-square test for the negative binomial distribution adjustment. Also, it was estimated the common k to develop the sequential sampling plan for attacked rhizomes, using the ratio from the maximum likelihood test data , with 10 and 5 % level of control. The maximum number of sample units expected for Attacked rhizomes was 21 trenches.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-04-23T14:13:46Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tiago Carvalhais de Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 2283233 bytes, checksum: 6e0744d8d8b25db17ecedc5ed707eee8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-04-23T14:16:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tiago Carvalhais de Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 2283233 bytes, checksum: 6e0744d8d8b25db17ecedc5ed707eee8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-23T14:16:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Tiago Carvalhais de Oliveira - 2014.pdf: 2283233 bytes, checksum: 6e0744d8d8b25db17ecedc5ed707eee8 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Caterpillars defoliators of soybean occurs in different times and feed on different parts of the plant, mainly in flowers and pods. During the growing seasons of 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, soybean fields were sampled in different crop phenological stages with the objective of knowing the population fluctuation of the main species of caterpillar defoliating soybeans and to determine the within field spatial distribution of the species of the Plusiinae complex, to describe how species colonize the soybean field. Five commercial fields submitted to different management practices were monitored. Sampling meshes were fabricated with equidistant points 50 meters. The areas were sampled weekly from the occurrence of the first defoliating caterpillars, until close to harvest. The sampling method used was ground cloth, with one row-meter. It was quantified all caterpillars. Data were submitted to statistical analysis using the following SAS procedures: Proc Univariate, Proc Means, Proc Freq. To test what statistical distribution fit to caterpillars population the procedure Proc Genmode was used. Maps representing the localization of samples of caterpillars in soybean fields were constructed. The species of Plusiinae predominated in the area, corresponding to 52, 04% in 2011/2012 e 48, 53% in 2012/2013 of the total of caterpillars found in the reproductive phase of soybean. The distribution of the complex of Plusiinae within field is random and do not present border effect. In this study, while the population fits the negative binomial distribution maps clearly indicate that the caterpillars are randomly dispersed in soybean fields. / As lagartas desfolhadoras da soja ocorrem em épocas distintas e atacam várias partes da planta, principalmente as folhas, flores e frutos. Durante os anos agrícolas de 2011/2012 e 2012/2013, campos de soja foram amostrados em diversos estádios fenológicos da planta com o objetivo de conhecer a flutuação populacional das principais espécies de lagartas desfolhadoras da cultura, e determinar a distribuição espacial em lavoura, espécies pertencentes ao complexo de Plusiinae, para compreender a forma que este complexo coloniza os campos de soja. Foram monitoradas cinco lavouras comerciais, submetidas a diferentes condições de manejo. Foram confeccionadas malhas de amostragem, com pontos eqüidistantes de 50 metros. As áreas foram amostradas semanalmente a partir da ocorrência das primeiras lagartas desfolhadoras, até próximo à colheita. O método de amostragem utilizado foi o pano de batida, com o qual um metro linear foi amostrado. Foram quantificadas todas as lagartas presentes nas amostragens dos campos selecionados. Para a realização das inferências, dos dados foram submetidos á análises estatísticas descritivas utilizando os seguintes procedimentos dos Sas, Proc Univariate, Proc Means e Proc Freq. Para verificar qual a distribuição estatística a que a população de lagartas melhor se ajustava foi utilizado o procedimento Proc Genmode. Mapas representativos da localização das lagartas do complexo Plusiinae no campo foram confeccionados. As espécies de Plusiinae foram as lagartas predominantes, compondo 52,04% em 2011/12 e 48,53% em 2012/13, do total de lagartas encontradas. As flutuações populacionais demonstraram que o pico das lagartas desfolhadoras ocorre principalmente na fase reprodutiva da cultura da soja. A distribuição de lagartas do complexo Plusiinae em lavoura é aleatória, não apresentando efeitos de bordas. Neste estudo, enquanto a população se ajusta à distribuição binomial negativa os mapas indicam claramente que as lagartas estão aleatoriamente dispersas nos campos de soja.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg 2016 / Quantifying risk in the absence of hard data presents a significant challenge. Onshore mining of the diamondiferous linear beach deposit along the south western coast of Namibia has been ongoing for more than 80 years. A historical delineated campaign from the 1930s to 1960s used coast perpendicular trenches spaced 500 m apart, comprising a total of 26 000 individual samples, to identify 6 onshore raised beaches. These linear beaches extend offshore and are successfully mined in water depths deeper than 30 m. There is, however, a roughly 4 km wide submerged coast parallel strip adjacent to the mostly mined out onshore beaches for which no real hard data is available at present. The submerged beaches within the 4 km coast parallel strip hold great potential for being highly diamondiferous. To date hard data is not yet available to quantify or validate this potential. The question is how to obtain sufficient hard data within the techno economic constraints to enable a resource with an acceptable level of confidence to be developed. The work presented in this thesis illustrates how virtual orebodies (VOBs) are created based on geological proxies in order to have a basis to assess and rank different sampling and drilling strategies. Overview of 4 papers Paper I demonstrates the challenge of obtaining a realistic variogram that can be used in variogram-based geostatistical simulations. Simulated annealing is used to unfold the coastline and improve the detectable variography for a number of the beaches. Paper II shows how expert opinion interpretation is used to supplement sparse data that is utilised to create an indicator simulation to study the presence and absence of diamondiferous gravel. When only the sparse data is used the resultant simulation is unsuitable as a VOB upon which drilling strategies can be assessed. Paper III outlines how expert opinion hand sketches are used to create a VOB. The composite probability map based on geological proxies is adjusted using a grade profile based on adjacent onshore data before it is seeded with stones and used as a VOB for strategy testing. Paper IV illustrates how the Nachman model based on a Negative Binomial Distribution (NBD) is used to predict a minimum background grade by considering only the zero proportions (Zp) of the grade data. v Conclusions and future work In the realm of creating spatial simulations that can serve as VOBs it is very difficult to attempt to quantify uncertainty when no hard data is available. In the absence of hard data, geological proxies and expert opinion are the only inputs that can be used to create VOBs. Subsequently these VOBs are used as a base to be analysed in order to evaluate and rank different sampling and drilling strategies based on techno economic constraints. VOBs must be updated and reviewed as hard data becomes available after which sampling strategies should be reassessed. During early stage exploration projects the Zp of sample results can be used to predict a minimum background grade and rank different targets for further sampling and valuation. The research highlights the possibility that multi point statistics (MPS) can be used. Higher order MPS should be further investigated as an additional method for creating VOBs upon which sampling strategies can be assessed. / MT2017

Highway safety has been a priority for many years now. A system-wide crash analysis is a practical solution when only a limited budget is available for improving safety of highways. A systematic approach, in contrast to a hotspot analysis, allows for a widespread installation of lower-cost countermeasures across the highway network. This study focuses on the safety evaluation of a particular facility type, urban freeway off-ramps, in terms of its geometric and traffic characteristics. 144 off-ramp segments in Richmond, VA were evaluated based on the crash data available from 2011 to 2015. A statistical model was developed that relates crashes to the geometric and traffic characteristics of each off-ramp segment. A test for independence was performed to identify if a statistically significant difference existed between type of collision and severity of crashes with respect to ramp geometry and traffic control. Significant geometric and traffic variables were then identified from the model and independence test to assist in the selection of low-cost countermeasures. AADTs of both freeways and off-ramps were found to be the most statistically significant variables. Installation of advance warning signs for better traffic management near the freeway diverge area and clearing roadsides of fixed objects to reduce rear-end collisions are low-cost solutions for crashes on urban off-ramps in the study area. The results of this study demonstrate an approach to safety evaluations that could support transportation planners and agencies in identifying system-wide locations to install or apply appropriate low-cost countermeasures. / Master of Science

We examine some of the methodologies implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) BioSense program. The program uses data from hospitals and public health departments to detect outbreaks using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS). The EARS method W2 allows one to monitor syndrome counts (W2count) from each source and the proportion of counts of a particular syndrome relative to the total number of visits (W2rate). We investigate the performance of the W2r method designed using an empiric recurrence interval (RI) in this dissertation research. An adaptive threshold monitoring method is introduced based on fitting sample data to the underlying distributions, then converting the current value to a Z-score through a p-value. We compare the upper thresholds on the Z-scores required to obtain given values of the recurrence interval for different sets of parameter values. We then simulate one-week outbreaks in our data and calculate the proportion of times these methods correctly signal an outbreak using Shewhart and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) charts. Our results indicate the adaptive threshold method gives more consistent statistical performance across different parameter sets and amounts of baseline historical data used for computing the statistics. For the power analysis, the EWMA chart is superior to its Shewhart counterpart in nearly all cases, and the adaptive threshold method tends to outperform the W2 rate method. Two modified W2r methods proposed in the dissertation also tend to outperform the W2r method in terms of the RI threshold functions and in the power analysis. / Ph. D.

The sequential-touching procedure is employed by researchers studying nonlinguistic categorization in toddlers. TouchStat 3.00 is introduced in this article as an adjunct to the sequential-touching procedure, allowing researchers to compare children’s actual touching behavior to what might be expected by chance. Advantages over the Thomas and Dahlin (2000) framework include ease of use, and fewer assumptive limitations. Improvements over TouchStat 1.00 include calculation of chance probabilities for multiple “special cases” and for immediate intercategory alternations. A new feature for calculating mean run length is also included.

Multidimensional frequency models can be used for modeling number of claims from different branches which are somehow dependent on each other. As in the one-dimensional case Poisson distribution and negative binomial distribution are primarily used for modeling multidimensional claim counts data, only they are extended to higher dimensions. The generalization of multi- dimensional distributions is often done using so-called shock variables, where one random variable is included in all dimensions of a random vector which models claim counts. The more comprehensive approach to modeling dependence uses copulas. Comparison of these models is done on a simulated data of number of claims from two different car insurance guarantees.

We study the properties of thinning and Markov chain thinning of renewal processes. Among others, we investigate whether some special renewal processes can be obtained through Markov chain thinning.

In this work were considered the maxima and minima structures. Where number of value is random and is distributed by negative binomial distribution. There were theorems that were improved in this work, that helped to find the limit distribute function of this standard structures. These theorems generalize propositions, when set size is geometric random number. Also, there was the concrete distribution analysis done and such distributions were chosen: exponential, general logistic and uniform.

Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή διατριβή εντάσσεται ερευνητικά στην περιοχή της Στατιστικής θεωρίας Αποφάσεων και ειδικότερα στη μελέτη της αρνητικής διωνυμικής κατανομής καθώς επίσης και στην εκτίμηση των παραμέτρων της. Στο Κεφάλαιο 1 παρουσιάζονται κάποιοι χρήσιμοι, για την πορεία της μελέτης μας, ορισμοί και θεωρήματα. Στο Κεφάλαιο 2 μελετάται το μοντέλο της αρνητικής διωνυμικής κατανομής, δίνονται τα χαρακτηριστικά μεγέθη αυτής και παρουσιάζονται οι διαφορετικές παραμετρικοποιήσεις της. Στο Κεφάλαιο 3, εξετάζεται το πρόβλημα εκτίμησης των παραμέτρων της αρνητικής διωνυμικής κατανομής και πιο ειδικά η εκτίμηση για τις διάφορες παραμετρικοποιήσης της. Για περισσότερη ανάλυση χρησιμοποιούνται η εκτίμηση μέγιστης πιθανοφάνειας, η εκτίμηση με τη μέθοδο των ροπών και πιο εξειδικευμένες υπολογιστικές μέθοδοι εκτίμησης. Στο Κεφάλαιο 4, και για το ίδιο πρόβλημα εκτίμησης που πραγματεύεται το προηγούμενο κεφάλαιο, επιλέγεται ο βέλτιστος εκτιμητής των παραμέτρων της αρνητικής διωνυμικής κατανομής και παρουσιάζεται ένα παράδειγμα για την κατανόηση των μεθόδων εκτίμησης. / The master thesis we are going to introduce takes place in the region of Statistical Decision Theory and particularly in studying the Negative Binomial Distribution and the estimation of its parameters. In Chapter 1 some useful definitions and theorems are presented. In Chapter 2 the model of negative binomial distribution is studied and its different parameterizations are discussed. In Chapter 3 we examine the problem of estimating the parameters of our model and for its parameterizations. In particular we give the method of Maximum Likelihood Estimation, the Method of Moments and more specified Estimation Methods. In Chapter 4 and for the same estimation problem, as in previous chapter, it’s been chosen the best estimator of the parameters in our model and it’s been derived an example for the better understanding of the above methods.