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The multivariate autocorrelation function of the measured values compared with the highest randomly possible correlation value shows significant correlation up to Lag 7. So, the range of multivariate correlation is more extended than that of univariate correlation (see Section 9.1.3.3.1). This fact must be understood because the computation of the MACF includes the whole data matrix with all interactions between the measured parameters. For characterization of the multivariate heavy metal load of the test area only 14 samples in the screen are necessary. 

Randomization experiments were performed to compare our models with the random results. Thus, 50 random numbers were defined as a pseudo-y vector, as well as 18 vectors of 50 random numbers acting as pseudodescriptors. By searching all subsets, the best fitting combination of n pseudodescriptors was obtained. For a constant n, 100 such runs were performed, each on a fresh set of random numbers. The highest random F from each run was recorded. The mean highest random (mkrR ) and its standard deviation (stdev) were calculated and are as follows ... 

Assume that the table represents typical production-hne performance. The numbers themselves have been generated on a computer and represent random obseiwations from a population with I = 3.5 and a population standard deviation <7 = 2.45. The sample values reflect the way in which tensile strength can vary by chance alone. In practice, a production supervisor unschooled in statistics but interested in high tensile performance would be despondent on the eighth day and exuberant on the twentieth day. If the supeiwisor were more concerned with uniformity, the lowest and highest points would have been on the eleventh and seventeenth days. 

The random packing appears to have the highest capacity and efficiency, and structured packing the least capacity and efficiency. 

In summary, the selection procedure consists of three steps (1) compare each spectrum in X with all spectra already selected by applying eq. (34.14). Initially, when no spectrum has been selected, the spectra are compared with the average spectrum of matrix X (2) plot of the dissimilarity values as a function of the retention time (dissimilarity plot) and (3) select the spectrum with the highest dissimilarity value by including it as a reference in matrix Y,-. The selection of the spectra is finished when the dissimilarity plot shows a random pattern. It is considered that there are as many compounds as there are spectra. Once the purest spectra are available, the data matrix X can be resolved into its spectra and elution profiles by Alternating Regression explained in Section 34.3.1. 

The principle of Maximum Likelihood is that the spectrum, y(jc), is calculated with the highest probability to yield the observed spectrum g(x) after convolution with h x). Therefore, assumptions about the noise n x) are made. For instance, the noise in each data point i is random and additive with a normal or any other distribution (e.g. Poisson, skewed, exponential,...) and a standard deviation s,. In case of a normal distribution the residual e, = g, - g, = g, - (/ /i), in each data point should be normally distributed with a standard deviation j,. The probability that (J h)i represents the measurement g- is then given by the conditional probability density function Pig, f) ... 

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc. (USP) in 2000 issued the USP criteria for levels of evidence for botanical articles [117]. While issued for botanicals, the criteria have application to all therapeutic agents. The USP criteria rank evidence from I to IV, with Level I being the strongest. Within Level I, the randomized controlled clinical trial is ranked highest, followed by meta-analysis and epidemiological studies. Level II consists of the same designs, but with methodological flaws. Level III includes inconclusive studies, and Level IV is anecdotal evidence. 

The second fitness function, fstoch, is similar to fmal in all ways except that rather than apply external forces at the highest joint, the forces are applied randomly. Hence, three nonbase joints are selected at random, and at each a force of 5 kN is applied down and 500 N either right or left (with equal probability at each joint). 

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