Ce mémoire s'intéresse à l'étude des comportements dynamiques dans les systèmes d'électronique de puissance. La nature des cycles définis par les variables d'état du système peut être établie soit grâce à un diagramme de bifurcation soit grâce aux multiplieurs de Floquet obtenus par le modèle discret du convertisseur. Cependant, pour certaines structures de convertisseur statique, un modèle discret ne peut être obtenu sans introduire de fortes hypothèses. Les bifurcations de type flip (à l'échelle des hautes fréquences) ne peuvent pas être prédites par le modèle moyen alors qu'elles apparaissent dans de nombreux convertisseurs statiques. Une nouvelle formulation d'un modèle moyen continu permettant d'estimer le premier point de bifurcation (flip, Hopf...) a été présentée. La méthodologie proposée a été appliquée à un convertisseur boost, en mode de conduction continu, contrôlé en courant par différents types de contrôleur à fréquence fixe de commutation. Ensuite, ce modèle moyen a été utilisé pour le dimensionnement des paramètres du régulateur de courant associé à un système de filtrage actif. Les résultats obtenus par le modèle proposé ont été validés par simulation numérique ainsi que par des résultats expérimentaux.Les méthodes d'analyse des cycles limites ont été étendues pour étudier la stabilité des réseaux DC lorsque la fréquence de coupure du filtre LC reliant la source de tension avec le convertisseur statique est proche de la fréquence apparente de commutation des convertisseurs utilisés. Différents modèles discrets ont été développés pour pouvoir considérer ou non le caractère échantillonné de la commande des convertisseurs / This thesis discusses the study of dynamic behavior in power electronics systems. The nature of cycles defined by the state variables of the system can be settled either by a bifurcation diagram or by Floquet multipliers obtained from the discrete model of the converter. However, for certain structures of static converters, a discrete model cannot be obtained without introducing large assumptions. The flip bifurcations (fast-scale) cannot be predicted by the averaged model whereas they appear in many statics converters. A new formulation of a continuous averaged model is presented to estimate the first bifurcation point (flip, Hopf ...). The proposed methodology is applied to a boost converter, operated in continuous conduction mode, controlled by different types of fixed frequency switching current controllers. Then, this averaged model is used for the design of the current controller parameters associated with an active filter system. The variables obtained by the proposed model have been validated by numerical simulation and experimental results. Methods of analysis of limit cycles are extended to study the stability of DC networks when the cutoff frequency of the LC filter between the voltage source and the converter is close to the switching frequency of converters. Different discrete-time models have been developed in order to consider whether to use sampled or no-sampled converter control

This thesis consists of four papers, three papers about modelling animal populations and one paper about an area integral estimate for solutions of partial differential equations on non-smooth domains. The papers are: I. Å. Brännström, Single species population models from first principles. II. Å. Brännström and D. J. T. Sumpter, Stochastic analogues of deterministic single species population models. III. Å. Brännström and D. J. T. Sumpter, Coupled map lattice approximations for spatially explicit individual-based models of ecology. IV. Å. Brännström, An area integral estimate for higher order parabolic equations. In the first paper we derive deterministic discrete single species population models with first order feedback, such as the Hassell and Beverton-Holt model, from first principles. The derivations build on the site based method of Sumpter & Broomhead (2001) and Johansson & Sumpter (2003). A three parameter generalisation of the Beverton-Holtmodel is also derived, and one of the parameters is shown to correspond directly to the underlying distribution of individuals. The second paper is about constructing stochastic population models that incorporate a given deterministic skeleton. Using the Ricker model as an example, we construct several stochastic analogues and fit them to data using the method of maximum likelihood. The results show that an accurate stochastic population model is most important when the dynamics are periodic or chaotic, and that the two most common ways of constructing stochastic analogues, using additive normally distributed noise or multiplicative lognormally distributed noise, give models that fit the data well. The latter is also motivated on theoretical grounds. In the third paper we approximate a spatially explicit individual-based model with a stochastic coupledmap lattice. The approximation effectively disentangles the deterministic and stochastic components of the model. Based on this approximation we argue that the stable population dynamics seen for short dispersal ranges is a consequence of increased stochasticity from local interactions and dispersal. Finally, the fourth paper contains a proof that for solutions of higher order real homogeneous constant coefficient parabolic operators on Lipschitz cylinders, the area integral dominates the maximal function in the L2-norm.

Solid oxide fuel cell/gas turbine (SOFC/GT) hybrid systems harness the capability to operate nearly 15 to 20 percentage points more efficiently than standard natural gas or pulverized coal power plants. Though the performance of these systems is quite promising, a number of system integration challenges, primarily with regards to thermal transport, still remain. It is for that reason that the Hybrid Performance Project (HyPer) facility, a Hardware-in-the-Loop SOFC/GT hybrid simulator, was built at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, WV. The HyPer facility couples an actual gas turbine with a combination of hardware and software that are used to simulate an actual SOFC. The facility is used to empirically address the system integration issues associated with fuel cell/gas turbine hybrids. Through this dissertation project, the software component of the SOFC simulator was upgraded from a 0-D lumped SOFC model to a 1-D, distributed, real-time operating SOFC model capable of spatio-temporal characterization of a fuel cell operating with a gas turbine in a hybrid arrangement. Once completed and verified, the upgraded HyPer facility was used to characterize the impact of cold air by-pass and initial fuel cell load on electrochemical start-up in an SOFC/GT hybrid environment. The impact of start-up on fuel cell inlet process parameters, SOFC performance and SOFC distributed behavior are presented and analyzed in comparative manner. This study represents the first time that an empirical parametric study, characterizing system operation during electrochemical start-up has been conducted.

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Le premier objectif de la thèse est de présenter un test d'ajustement pour les modèles paramétriques couramment utilisés en l'analyse de survie, la fiabilité, les sciences sociales, l'ingénierie, la santé publique et la démographie, en présence de censure à droite. Nous développons un logiciel en langue R pour les modèles paramétrique. Le modèle de Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) est utilisé pour la test d'ajustement pour les modèles AFT paramétriques et en analyse de système redondant. L'autre contribution porte sur l'analyse de système redondant composé avec une composante en état hot et l'autre en réserve fonctionnent en état warm pour augmenter la fiabilité de systeme. Nous calculons la fiabilité du système en termes de Fonction de répartition et nous donnons l'intervalle de confiance asymptotique. / This is an increasing importance in survival analysis and reliability to select a suitable basic model for further inquiries of the data. Little deviation in basic model can cause serious problems in final results. The presence of censoring and accelerated stresses make this task more difficult. Chi-square type goodness of fit tests are most commonly used for model selection. Many modifications in chi-square tests have been proposed by various researcher. The first aim of the thesis is to present a goodness of fit test for wide rage of parametric models (shape-scale families) commonly used in survival analysis, social sciences, engineering, public health and demography, in presence of right censoring. We give the explicit forms of the quadratic form of the test statistic (NRR test) for various models and apply the test on real data. We develop a computer program in R-language for all models. A separate section is dedicated for the test in demography. We focus on the Birnbaum-Saunders (BS) distribution for goodness of fit test for parametric AFT-model and analysis of redundant system.The other purpose of the thesis is to give the analysis of redundant system. To ensure high reliability of the main components of the systems, standby units are used. The main component is replaced by the standby unit automatically, if it fails. The standby unit can be in warm, hot, or cold state. We give the procedure of one main and (n-1) standby units placed in hot state, and give the detailed analysis of one main and one standby unit using BS parametric family. We use Sedyakin's physical principal and the approach of accelerated failure time model for the analysis of redundant system. This approach is different from the traditional ones in the literature but difficulties in calculations. We calculate the reliability of the system in terms of distribution function (unreliability function) and asymptotic confidence interval.

Denna uppsats har undersökt tid-till-försäljning på Uppsala kommuns bostadsmarknad för lägenheter under året 2021. För att analysera tid-till-försäljning har metoder från överlevnadsanalys använts. Överlevnadsfunktionen och den kumulativa hasardfunktionen har skattats med Kaplan-Meier-skattningen och Nelson-Aalen-skattningen. Därutöver har tre modeller skattats; en Cox proportionell hasardmodell och två 'Accelerated Failure Time'-modeller varav en var en Weibullmodell och en var en Loglogistiskmodell. Resultaten indikerar att tid-till-försäljning har en hög hasard efter två veckor på marknaden varefter en avtagande hasard. Resultaten indikerar att kovariat har en statistisk signifikant effekt på tid-till-försäljning. Grafiska tester indikerar att antagandet om proportionalitet för Cox proportionella hasardmodell och antagandet om den underliggande hasardfunktionen för Weibullmodellen är orimliga. Antagandet om den underliggande hasardfunktionen för loglogistiskamodellen verkar rimlig. Goodness-of-fit indikerar att Weibullmodellen och loglogistiskamodellen var mer välanpassade till datamaterialet än Cox proportionella hasardmodell. / This bachelor's thesis has investigated time-to-sale on the Uppsala municipality property market for apartments during 2021. Analysis has been performed utilising methods from survival analysis. Both the survival function and cumulative hazard function were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier estimate and the Nelson-Aalen estimate respectively. Furthermore, three models were estimated; a Cox Proportional Hazards model as well as two Accelerated Failure Time models of which one was a Weibullmodell and the other was a loglogistic model. The results indicate that time-to-sale has a high hazard after two weeks on the market followed by a decreasing hazard. The results also indicate that covariates have a statistically significant effect on time-to-sale. Graphical tests indicate that the assumption of proportionality for the Cox Proportional Hazards model and the assumption of the underlying hazard function for the Weibullmodell are unreasonable. The assumed hazardfunction of the loglogistic model was found to be reasonable. Goodness of fit indicates that the Weibull model and loglogistic model were a better fit to the data than the Cox proportional Hazardsmodel.

Health technology assessment: case study on breast carcinoma treatment in the Czech Republic Bc. Lenka Šlegerová January 4, 2019 Abstract This thesis proposes an original method for assessing total costs of med- ical treatment. It defines the semi-Markov model with four states that are associated with specific costs of the treatment, and not with patients' health statuses. This method is applied to individuals' treatment data drawn from the Czech clinical practice in the treatment of the metastatic HER2+ breast cancer. The aim is to assess the cost-effectiveness of adding medication per- tuzumab to the combination of trastuzumab+docetaxel within first-line therapy and to examine whether using individual data on Czech patients and the economic conditions leads to different results from foreign stud- ies. Furthermore, employing censored data from the clinical practice in the thesis complicates the estimation of patients' overall survival in compari- son to clinical-trials data that form random samples. Therefore, survival functions were not only estimated by the Kaplan-Meier estimator but also using the Cox proportional hazard model and the Accelerated failure time model that both control for the effects of included covariates. The addition of pertuzumab does not result in significantly longer pa- tients'...

本文針對路徑相依選擇權(path dependent option)商品，提供一個一般化且有效率評價方法。由於路徑相依選擇權的種類很多，而大部分的美式路徑相依選擇權都沒有封閉解(closed-form)，或是封閉解的數學計算過於複雜，而造成評價的困難。此時，透過數值方法可以對路徑相依選擇權定出理論價值。但是選定一個有效率的數值方法是主要的困難，理論上，樹狀模型及蒙地卡羅的數值方法都可以評價路徑相依選擇權，而蒙地卡羅法在評價美式選擇權時較困難，相對而言，使用樹狀模型可以評價美式的選擇權的一個不錯的方法。 自從CRR(Cox, Ross and Rubinstein, 1979)發展二項樹模型(Binomial Tree model)來評價選擇權後，二項樹模型一直被廣泛的應用，此方法基本的概念假設股價的變動為間斷(Discrete)的，且股價呈現上漲或下跌兩種情形，這樣可以容易地來評價歐式及美式的選擇權。之後Boyle(1988)更發展三元樹模型(Trinomial Tree)，股價比CRR更多了持平的情形，這樣比CRR多考慮了一種股價行為的模式，實證得知三元樹在穩定性及收斂度上比二項樹表現較佳。 上述二項樹模型及三元樹模型受到節點重合(recombined)的特性，而路徑相依選擇權同一個節點若由不同歷史路徑所產生時，其報酬(payoff)是不同的，報酬可能因為歷史路徑的不同產生很多的情形，所以當路徑相依選擇權的條件越複雜時，要評價一個路徑相依選擇權有其困難性。 本文分別以二項樹模型及三元樹模型來評價路徑相依的選擇權，而為了解決節點可能存在之前的路徑問題，放鬆條件使得節點不再結合一起(non-recombined)，如此所有的節點將可以被紀錄，不會有不能評價路徑相依選擇權的問題，但在此情況下會產生另一個問題，節點數隨著切割期數的上昇呈指數成長，使得電腦計算較無效率。 針對路徑選擇權本文提出一個有效率的路徑相依選擇權方法，稱為動態樹狀法(Dynamic Tree Model, DTM)，此評價方法建構在風險中立定價(risk-neutral)的理論基礎上。在每一期時間點檢查是否有相同的路徑資訊和標的物現價，若發生路徑資訊和標的物的現價相同且有重複的節點時，可以預期的，這些節點未來長出的子股價樹也會相同，因此不必重複節點，浪費電腦記憶體空間及運算時間，而將此節點予以合併，以達到減少節點個數目的。若遇到不同的路徑資訊或不同標的物現價的節點時，則予以產生。 動態樹狀法將真正需要的節點加以產生，其目的能降低節點數目，改善計算效率，而將此方法廣泛地應用在其他不同的路徑相依選擇權上。而根據不同路徑相依選擇權，我們必須將有用的路徑資訊存在節點上。本文將提出一般化的模型，使用policy設計樣式，以二項樹及三元樹為例，並選擇不同的路徑相依選擇權產品－障礙選擇權、回顧選擇權、亞式選擇權為例，求其理論價值，而實務上通常是間斷(discrete)觀察，我們將討論間斷觀測的情形，比較其觀察點、效率、精確度、節點數目、允許誤差之探討，並提出建議，也能夠廣泛應用在其它路徑相依選擇權上。

Cette thèse a été conçu pour explorer les modèles dynamiques de régression, d’évaluer les inférences statistiques pour l’analyse des données de survie et de fiabilité. Ces modèles de régression dynamiques que nous avons considérés, y compris le modèle des hasards proportionnels paramétriques et celui de la vie accélérée avec les variables qui peut-être dépendent du temps. Nous avons discuté des problèmes suivants dans cette thèse.Nous avons présenté tout d’abord une statistique de test du chi-deux généraliséeY2nquiest adaptative pour les données de survie et fiabilité en présence de trois cas, complètes,censurées à droite et censurées à droite avec les covariables. Nous avons présenté en détailla forme pratique deY2nstatistique en analyse des données de survie. Ensuite, nous avons considéré deux modèles paramétriques très flexibles, d’évaluer les significations statistiques pour ces modèles proposées en utilisantY2nstatistique. Ces modèles incluent du modèle de vie accélérés (AFT) et celui de hasards proportionnels (PH) basés sur la distribution de Hypertabastic. Ces deux modèles sont proposés pour étudier la distribution de l’analyse de la duré de survie en comparaison avec d’autre modèles paramétriques. Nous avons validé ces modèles paramétriques en utilisantY2n. Les études de simulation ont été conçus.Dans le dernier chapitre, nous avons proposé les applications de ces modèles paramétriques à trois données de bio-médicale. Le premier a été fait les données étendues des temps de rémission des patients de leucémie aiguë qui ont été proposées par Freireich et al. sur la comparaison de deux groupes de traitement avec des informations supplémentaires sur les log du blanc du nombre de globules. Elle a montré que le modèle Hypertabastic AFT est un modèle précis pour ces données. Le second a été fait sur l’étude de tumeur cérébrale avec les patients de gliome malin, ont été proposées par Sauerbrei & Schumacher. Elle a montré que le meilleur modèle est Hypertabastic PH à l’ajout de cinq variables de signification. La troisième demande a été faite sur les données de Semenova & Bitukov, à concernant les patients de myélome multiple. Nous n’avons pas proposé un modèle exactement pour ces données. En raison de cela était les intersections de temps de survie.Par conséquent, nous vous conseillons d’utiliser un autre modèle dynamique que le modèle de la Simple Cross-Effect à installer ces données. / This thesis was designed to explore the dynamic regression models, assessing the sta-tistical inference for the survival and reliability data analysis. These dynamic regressionmodels that we have been considered including the parametric proportional hazards andaccelerated failure time models contain the possibly time-dependent covariates. We dis-cussed the following problems in this thesis.At first, we presented a generalized chi-squared test statisticsY2nthat is a convenient tofit the survival and reliability data analysis in presence of three cases: complete, censoredand censored with covariates. We described in detail the theory and the mechanism to usedofY2ntest statistic in the survival and reliability data analysis. Next, we considered theflexible parametric models, evaluating the statistical significance of them by usingY2nandlog-likelihood test statistics. These parametric models include the accelerated failure time(AFT) and a proportional hazards (PH) models based on the Hypertabastic distribution.These two models are proposed to investigate the distribution of the survival and reliabilitydata in comparison with some other parametric models. The simulation studies were de-signed, to demonstrate the asymptotically normally distributed of the maximum likelihood estimators of Hypertabastic’s parameter, to validate of the asymptotically property of Y2n test statistic for Hypertabastic distribution when the right censoring probability equal 0% and 20%.n the last chapter, we applied those two parametric models above to three scenes ofthe real-life data. The first one was done the data set given by Freireich et al. on thecomparison of two treatment groups with additional information about log white blood cellcount, to test the ability of a therapy to prolong the remission times of the acute leukemiapatients. It showed that Hypertabastic AFT model is an accurate model for this dataset.The second one was done on the brain tumour study with malignant glioma patients, givenby Sauerbrei & Schumacher. It showed that the best model is Hypertabastic PH onadding five significance covariates. The third application was done on the data set given by Semenova & Bitukov on the survival times of the multiple myeloma patients. We did not propose an exactly model for this dataset. Because of that was an existing oneintersection of survival times. We, therefore, suggest fitting other dynamic model as SimpleCross-Effect model for this dataset.