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Optoelectronics is a relatively new and fast-growing industry with many applications. Thin-film processes, such as reactive sputtering, molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE), and particularly MOCVD, play a major part in their production. Equipment and materials are similar to those used in the semiconductor industry and many companies manufacture both types of products. In fact the distinction between the two areas is often blurred. Statistics generally do not single out optoelectronics as such and, for that reason, it is difficult to define the scope of the industry accurately. 

The tabulated value of the test statistics, generally at the 95% confidence level... 

Department of Statistics, General Report of the Population Census 1980, Government Printer, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1983. 

Government chemical statistics generally can be used to advantage by both large and small manufacturers. They form the base for analysis of trends and survey of markets without such a base, chemical market research would be much more difficult to accomplish and results much more open to question. 

Since radioactive decay follows Poisson statistics, a lower limit to the precision of an analysis can be obtained by a single measurement. In practice, counting statistics generally is the limiting uncertainty, since chi-squared tests often show that the single-measurement precision is an excellent predictor of sample-to-sample repeatability. 

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Thus, some sort of adjustment for sequential analysis would be indicated. In medical statistics, or indeed in statistics generally, this is an extremely controversial topic (see Chapter 19). Sequential methods is the field in which the distinction between Bayesian methods and frequentist approaches is sharpest. Bayesian approaches do not appear to require adjustment for repeated testing, whereas frequentist approaches do. 

Parallel to, and often independent of, the correspondence-based approach, optical flow-based structure and motion estimation algorithms have flourished for more than two decades. Although robust dense optical flow estimates are still elusive, the field has matured to the extent that systematic characterization and evaluation of optical flow estimates are now possible. Methods that use robust statistics, generalized motion models, and filters have all shown great promise. Significant work that uses directly observable flow ( normal flow ) provides additional insight into the limitations of traditional approaches. An example of depth estimation using optical flow is shown in Fig. 8. 

Statistics General Aviation, http //www.btre.gov.au/statisties/aviation/general aviation, aspx, Aeeessed on Mareh 2005. 

Statistical generalization of empirical data installs a following relation-... 

Safety incentive programs that are based on outcomes (such as reduced injuries) are easy to administer and are a popular choice. With these programs, injury statistics generally decrease, sometimes markedly. 

In statistical terms, a perceptual improvement is therefore obtained if the amplitude distribution in the filtered signal (image) is more concentrated around zero than in the raw data (contrast enhancement). A more concentrated amplitude distribution generally means smaller entropy. Thus, from an operator perception point of view, interesting results should be obtained if the raw data can be filtered to yield low entropy amplitude distributions. However, one should note that the entropy can be minimized by means of a (pathological) filter which always outputs zero or another constant value. Thus, appropriate restrictions must be imposed on the filter construction process. 

The topic of capillarity concerns interfaces that are sufficiently mobile to assume an equilibrium shape. The most common examples are meniscuses, thin films, and drops formed by liquids in air or in another liquid. Since it deals with equilibrium configurations, capillarity occupies a place in the general framework of thermodynamics in the context of the macroscopic and statistical behavior of interfaces rather than the details of their molectdar structure. In this chapter we describe the measurement of surface tension and present some fundamental results. In Chapter III we discuss the thermodynamics of liquid surfaces. 

On compression, a gaseous phase may condense to a liquid-expanded, L phase via a first-order transition. This transition is difficult to study experimentally because of the small film pressures involved and the need to avoid any impurities [76,193]. There is ample evidence that the transition is clearly first-order there are discontinuities in v-a plots, a latent heat of vaporization associated with the transition and two coexisting phases can be seen. Also, fluctuations in the surface potential [194] in the two phase region indicate two-phase coexistence. The general situation is reminiscent of three-dimensional vapor-liquid condensation and can be treated by the two-dimensional van der Waals equation (Eq. Ill-104) [195] or statistical mechanical models [191]. 

We have considered briefly the important macroscopic description of a solid adsorbent, namely, its speciflc surface area, its possible fractal nature, and if porous, its pore size distribution. In addition, it is important to know as much as possible about the microscopic structure of the surface, and contemporary surface spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, discussed in Chapter VIII, provide a good deal of such information (see also Refs. 55 and 56 for short general reviews, and the monograph by Somoijai [57]). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFT) are now widely used to obtain the structure of surfaces and of adsorbed layers on a molecular scale (see Chapter VIII, Section XVIII-2B, and Ref. 58). On a less informative and more statistical basis are site energy distributions (Section XVII-14) there is also the somewhat laige-scale type of structure due to surface imperfections and dislocations (Section VII-4D and Fig. XVIII-14). 

In general, it seems more reasonable to suppose that in chemisorption specific sites are involved and that therefore definite potential barriers to lateral motion should be present. The adsorption should therefore obey the statistical thermodynamics of a localized state. On the other hand, the kinetics of adsorption and of catalytic processes will depend greatly on the frequency and nature of such surface jumps as do occur. A film can be fairly mobile in this kinetic sense and yet not be expected to show any significant deviation from the configurational entropy of a localized state. 

On the other hand, in the theoretical calculations of statistical mechanics, it is frequently more convenient to use volume as an independent variable, so it is important to preserve the general importance of the chemical potential as something more than a quantity GTwhose usefulness is restricted to conditions of constant temperature and pressure. 

As we have seen, the third law of thermodynamics is closely tied to a statistical view of entropy. It is hard to discuss its implications from the exclusively macroscopic view of classical themiodynamics, but the problems become almost trivial when the molecular view of statistical themiodynamics is introduced. Guggenlieim (1949) has noted that the usefiihiess of a molecular view is not unique to the situation of substances at low temperatures, that there are other limiting situations where molecular ideas are helpfid in interpreting general experimental results ... 

By the standard methods of statistical thermodynamics it is possible to derive for certain entropy changes general formulas that cannot be derived from the zeroth, first, and second laws of classical thermodynamics. In particular one can obtain formulae for entropy changes in highly di.sperse systems, for those in very cold systems, and for those associated, with the mixing ofvery similar substances. 

Thus many aspects of statistical mechanics involve techniques appropriate to systems with large N. In this respect, even the non-interacting systems are instructive and lead to non-trivial calculations. The degeneracy fiinction that is considered in this subsection is an essential ingredient of the fonnal and general methods of statistical mechanics. The degeneracy fiinction is often referred to as the density of states. 

We first consider tlnee examples as a prelude to the general discussion of basic statistical mechanics. These are (i) non-mteracting spin-i particles in a magnetic field, (ii) non-interacting point particles in a box,... 

Andersen H C and Chandler D 1970 Mode expansion in equilibrium statistical mechanics I. General theory and application to electron gas J. Chem. Phys. 53 547... 

Pople J 1954 Statistical mechanics of assemblies of axially symmetric molecules I. General theory Proc. R. Soc. A 221 498... 

Within this general framework there have been many different systems modelled and the dynamical, statistical prefactors have been calculated. These are detailed in [42]. For a binary mixture, phase separating from an initially metastable state, the work of Langer and Schwartz [48] using die Langer theory [47] gives the micleation rate as... 

These equations lead to fomis for the thermal rate constants that are perfectly similar to transition state theory, although the computations of the partition functions are different in detail. As described in figrne A3.4.7 various levels of the theory can be derived by successive approximations in this general state-selected fomr of the transition state theory in the framework of the statistical adiabatic chaimel model. We refer to the literature cited in the diagram for details. 

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