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This method, because it involves minimizing the sum of squares of the deviations xi — p, is called the method of least squares. We have encountered the principle before in our discussion of the most probable velocity of an individual particle (atom or molecule), given a Gaussian distr ibution of particle velocities. It is ver y powerful, and we shall use it in a number of different settings to obtain the best approximation to a data set of scalars (arithmetic mean), the best approximation to a straight line, and the best approximation to parabolic and higher-order data sets of two or more dimensions. 

That value for a set of ordered data, for which half of the data is larger in value and half is smaller in value (Xn,ed) ... 

Since there is a total of seven measurements, the median is the fourth value in the ordered data set thus, the median is 3.107. 

For those pesticides which are utilized as microbial growth substrates, sigmoidal rates of biodegradation are frequentiy observed (see Fig. 2). Sigmoidal data are more difficult to summarize than exponential (first-order) data because of their inherent nonlinearity. Sigmoidal rates of pesticide metabohsm can be described using microbial growth kinetics (Monod) however, four kinetics constants are required. Consequentiy, it is more difficult to predict the persistence of these pesticides in the environment. 

The values used in plotting Figs. 2-1 and 2-2 can be used to illustrate the method for first-order and second-order data. Plots of t/E versus time are shown in Fig. 2-9. The second-order data define a precise straight line, and those for n = 1 are linear to E < 0.4. The latter graph has a slope of 0.6, giving n = 1.2. 

Wilkinson s method for the estimation of the reaction order is illustrated for first-order (left) and second-order (right) kinetic data. The first-order reaction is the decomposition of diacetone alcohol (Table 2-3 and Fig. 2-4) data to about 50 percent reaction are displayed. The slope gives an approximate order of 1.2. The second-order data (Fig. 2-2) give a precise fit to Eq. (2-59) and an order of two exactly. 

Some analytical instruments produce a table of raw data which need to be processed into the analytical result. Hyphenated measurement devices, such as HPLC linked to a diode array detector (DAD), form an important class of such instruments. In the particular case of HPLC-DAD, data tables are obtained consisting of spectra measured at several elution times. The rows represent the spectra and the columns are chromatograms detected at a particular wavelength. Consequently, rows and columns of the data table have a physical meaning. Because the data table X can be considered to be a product of a matrix C containing the concentration profiles and a matrix S containing the pure (but often unknown) spectra, we call such a table bilinear. The order of the rows in this data table corresponds to the order of the elution of the compounds from the analytical column. Each row corresponds to a particular elution time. Such bilinear data tables are therefore called ordered data tables. Trilinear data tables are obtained from LC-detectors which produce a matrix of data at any instance during the... 

Despite obtaining all the ordered data from crystal structures, which give accurate structural information, and despite the removal of the unobserved (disordered) residues, it still cannot be assumed that the... 

The key to calculating the Durbin-Watson statistic is that prior to performing the calculation, the data must be put into a suitable order. The Durbin-Watson statistic is then sensitive to serial correlations of the ordered data. While the serial correlation is often thought of in connection with time series, that is only one of its applications. 

Figure 75-2 shows third-order data or a hyperspectral data cube where the spectral amplitude is measured at multiple frequencies (spectrum) with X and Y spatial dimensions included. Each plane in the figure represents the amplitude of the spectral signal at a single frequency for an X and Y coordinate spatial image. 

Figure 75-1 (a) Second order data (amplitude, multiple frequencies, time) (b) Second order data (amplitude at one frequency, with X and Y spatial dimensions). 

The software tool performs an optimal calculation of lot sizes incorporating uncertain demand from forecasts or history as well as up-to-date inventory and open order data. The effort for the regular user is negligible because of the interface to SAP R/3. Various technical constraints can be included. Specific training to use the software is not necessary because it looks like the familiar Excel format to the... 

The second chapter is devoted to computing the Betti numbers of Hilbert schemes of points. The main tool we want to use are the Weil conjectures. In section 2.1 we will study the structure of the closed subscheme of X which parametrizes subschemes of length nonl concentrated in a variable point of X. We will show that (X )rei is a locally trivial fibre bundle over X in the Zariski topology with fibre Hilbn( [[xi,... arj]]). We will then also globalize the stratification of Hilbn( [[xi,..., x ]]) from section 1.3 to a stratification of Some of the strata parametrize higher order data of smooth m-dimensional subvarieties Y C X for m < d. In chapter 3 we will study natural smooth compactifications of these strata. 

In [Le Barz (10)] these varieties are shown to be smooth for X a smooth variety over C. The Ei X) are irreducible divisors in H3(X). D (X) is the variety of second order data on X, which we want to study in more detail in chapter 3. 

In section 3.2 we consider the varieties of higher order data D X). Their definition is a generalisation of that of D X). We show that only the varieties of third order data of curves and hypersurfaces are well-behaved, i.e. they are locally trivial bundles over the corresponding varieties of second order data with fibre a projective space. In particular D X) is a natural desingularisation of. Then we compute the Chow ring of these varieties. As an enumerative application of the results of chapter 3 we determine formulas for the numbers of second and third order contacts of a smooth projective variety X C Pn with linear subspaces of P. ... 

In section 3.3 we introduce the Semple bundle varieties Fn(X), which parametrize higher order data of curves on X in a slightly different sense. We use them to show a general formula for the number of higher order contacts of a smooth projective variety X C Pjv with lines in P/v. 

Let X be a smooth projective variety of dimension d over an algebraically closed field k. In this section we want to define a variety D (X) of second order data of m-dimensional subvarieties of X for any non-negative integer m < d. A general point of D ln X) will correspond to the second order datum of the germ of a smooth m-dimensional subvariety Y C X in a point x X, i.e. to the quotient of Ox,x- Assume for the moment that the ground field is C and x Y C X, X is a smooth complex d-manifold and we have local coordinates zi,..., at x. Then Y is given by equations... 

Later we will see that D X) is reduced and even smooth. D2n(X) is called the variety of second order data of m-dimensional subvarieties of X. Analogously we define D n(X) as the closed subscheme of X x Xtm+1l that represents the functor given by... 

DlniX) is the variety of first order data of m-dimensional subschemes of X. As a set it is obviously given by... 

For a surface 5 the variety D2(S) is considered in the literature (using a slightly different definition). It is called the variety of second order data on S and denoted... 

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