State estimation and filtering techniques form the backbone of modern control, signal processing and data fusion methodologies. These techniques are employed to infer the internal states of a dynamic ...

One of the first tasks when managing a project is the cost estimate. A cost estimate must be accurate, transparent and reliable. These factors are particularly important for a small business because ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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Imagine you're cooking a new recipe. You have the ingredients, the instructions and the tools. Yet, as you cook, you run into problems: some ingredients need more prep time, the oven heats unevenly ...

Though conceptually appealing, it is impossible to fully account in practice for all the individual decisions and behaviors that constitute the nation’s water use. Nevertheless, statistical sampling ...

Health planning agencies have long had a need for local area data on issues such as health status, utilization, and preventive care. Synthetic estimation and regression techniques have been advanced ...

The network autocorrelation model has been the workhorse for estimating and testing the strength of theories of social influence in a network. In many network studies, different types of social ...