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Wald and admissible
A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference ( and hence of Bayesian probabilities ) was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every admissible statistical procedure is either a Bayesian procedure or a limit of Bayesian procedures.
A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every Bayesian procedure is admissible.

Wald and limits
The population again received a large boost on August 1, 1929 through the incorporation of Ohligs, Wald, Höhscheid, and Gräfrath into the city limits.
It is spread out on both banks of the Neckar on a fertile terrace and the highest spot inside city limits is the Schweinsberg with a height of 372 m. Heilbronn is located adjacent to the Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald State Park and is famous for the vineyards that surround it.

Wald and ),
* Penrose, Roger: " The Question of Cosmic Censorship ", Chapter 5 in Black Holes and Relativistic Stars, Robert Wald ( editor ), ( 1994 ) ( ISBN 0-226-87034-0 )
George Wald won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with retina pigments ( also called visual pigments ), which led to the understanding of the role of vitamin A in vision.
The Thuringian Forest ( Thüringer Wald in German ), running northwest to southeast, forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties in transit routing save through a few navigable passes in the southern reaches of the German state of Thuringia.
The highest elevation, at 546 metres ( 1, 791 ft ), is in the Balver Wald in the south of the city.
The district is located on the eastern rim of the Palatinate forest ( Pfälzer Wald ), called the Haardt.
A part of the Bavarian Forest belongs to the Bavarian Forest National Park ( Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald ) ( 240 km² ), established in 1970 as the first national park in Germany.
Another 3, 008 km² belong to the Bavarian Forest Nature Park ( Naturpark Bayerischer Wald ), established 1967, and 1738 km² to the Eastern Bavarian Forest Nature Park ( Naturpark Oberer Bayerischer Wald ), established 1965.
In 2006, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported a claim by former referee Karl Wald ( b. 1916 ), from Frankfurt am Main, that he had first proposed the shoot-out in 1970 to the Bavarian FA.
Experiments by George Wald and others showed that rods are most sensitive to wavelengths of light around 498 nm ( green-blue ), and insensitive to wavelengths longer than about 640 nm ( red ).
Putlitz made his debut as a writer with a volume of romantic fairy stories in verse, Was sich der Wald erzählt ( Tales told among the woods ; 1850 ), which attained great popularity ( fifty editions ) and found many imitators.
Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).

Wald and central
The Teutoburger Wald is a far northern extension of the central European uplands, extending east toward the Weser river, south from the town of Osnabrück and southeast to Paderborn.
In statistical theory, the central role of the loss function was renewed by the statistical decision theory of Abraham Wald.
* Hirschberg, the highest hill in the Kaufunger Wald, central Germany

Wald and such
Inspired by a lecture on settlement movements that chronicled the works of social reformers such as Lillian Wald and Jane Addams, Mary organized others to become involved in settlement work.
It can also be used in the formulation of test statistics, such as the Wald test.
Du Bois joined with other black leaders and white activists, such as Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Henry Moskowitz, Julius Rosenthal, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, and Stephen Wise to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 1909.
Birgte is a small village at the north edge of the Teutoburger Wald and is as such part of Riesenbeck which is part of the town Hörstel.

Wald and inference
The decision-theoretic approach to statistical inference was reinvigorated by Abraham Wald and his successors, and makes extensive use of scientific computing, analysis, and optimization ; for the design of experiments, statisticians use algebra and combinatorics.

Wald and parameter
Whenever a relationship within or between data items can be expressed as a statistical model with parameters to be estimated from a sample, the Wald test can be used to test the true value of the parameter based on the sample estimate.
Under the Wald statistical test, the maximum likelihood estimate of the parameter ( s ) of interest is compared with the proposed value, with the assumption that the difference between the two will be approximately normally distributed.

Wald and confidence
Usually the Wald test and the likelihood ratio test give very similar conclusions ( as they are asymptotically equivalent ), but very rarely, they disagree enough to lead to different conclusions: the researcher finds him / herself asking, or being asked, why the p-value is significant when the confidence interval includes 0, or why the p-value is not significant when the confidence interval excludes 0.

Wald and ref
According to the classification of the major natural regions of Germany it is part of the Rear Bavarian Forest ( Hinterer Bayerischer Wald )< ref >

characterized and procedures
In general, Bayesian methods are characterized by the following concepts and procedures:
Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties ; proclamation of a state of emergency ; rule by decree ; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures ; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.
Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was characterized by its emphasis on the scientific basis of linguistics, adherence to behaviorism especially in his later work, and emphasis on formal procedures for the analysis of linguistic data.
Note: Net operations ( a ) allow participants to conduct ordered conferences among participants who usually have common information needs or related functions to perform, ( b ) are characterized by adherence to standard formats and procedures, and ( c ) are responsive to a common supervisory station, called the " net control station ", which permits access to the net and maintains net operational discipline.
Debate is fairly common about whether the use of these terms should be restricted, and generally reflects an awareness of the distinction made by Burns ( 1978 ) between " transactional " leadership ( characterized by e. g. emphasis on procedures, contingent reward, management by exception ) and " transformational " leadership ( characterized by e. g. charisma, personal relationships, creativity ).
A scientific instrument can be any type of equipment,, apparatus or device as is specifically designed, constructed and often, through trial and error, ingeniously refined to apply utmost efficiency in the utilization of well proven physical principle, relationship or technology to facilitate or enable the pursuit, acquisition, transduction and storage of repeatable, verifiable data, usually consisting of sets numerical measurements made upon otherwise unknown, unproven quantities, properties, phenomena, materials, forces or etc., preferably as those characterized over time by an increasing degree of accuracy and precision and, typically, those initially derived as isolated or dependent variable results from, or empirical observations made during, the course of such experimental procedures as are firmly based upon the scientific method and long accepted tenants of experimental design.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is also in part characterized by a form of pedantry that is overly concerned with the correct following of rules, procedures and practices.
Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being " characterized by extremely strict, even rigid technical procedures ( canonic structures ), which are often worked out with unusual musical materials ( glissandi )".
The first direction of invention aims toward deriving heuristic procedures or systematic strategies that will aid students in discovering and generating ideas about which they might write ; the second direction of invention is characterized by how writers establish " voice " in writing and realize individual selves in discourse ( Glenn and Goldthwaite 153 ).
Unsurprisingly, it did not follow the laws and procedures of regular German trials, being easily characterized as a " kangaroo court ".

characterized and Bayesian
This is because MAP estimates are point estimates, whereas Bayesian methods are characterized by the use of distributions to summarize data and draw inferences: thus, Bayesian methods tend to report the posterior mean or median instead, together with credible intervals.

characterized and limits
For this closure is characterized in terms of limits of filter bases: if Y is a subset of X and z is a point of X, then z is in the closure of Y if and only if there exists a filter base B consisting of subsets of Y which converges to z.
Montessori education is characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child ’ s natural psychological development, as well as technological advancements in society.
Miller recognized that the correspondence between the limits of one-dimensional absolute judgment and of short-term memory span was only a coincidence, because only the first limit, not the second, can be characterized in information-theoretic terms ( i. e., as a roughly constant number of bits ).
It is a specific language impairment characterized by an ability to use expressive spoken language that is markedly below the appropriate level for the mental age, but with a language comprehension that is within normal limits.
Nonetheless, this prohibition limits an eruv to including only neighborhoods and streets that can be characterized as " private " or " semi-private ".
City proper is defined as a " locality with legally fixed boundaries and an administratively recognized urban status that is usually characterized by some form of local government ", or the area within the corporate limits.
An analysis of the isotopes produced, performed at the National Institute of Radioactive Elements in Belgium has shown that the Mo-99 samples produced at ARGUS are characterized by an extreme radiochemical purity, i. e. the impurity content in them is lower than the allowable limits by 2 – 4 orders of magnitude.

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