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... analysis methods, suchas descriptive statistics and crosstabulations, and more specialized marketingresearch methods. Thischapter discusses two families of specialized marketingresearch methods, ... discusses these methods and their implementationin SAS.∗Introduction Marketing research is an area of applied data analysis whose purpose is to support marketing decisionmaking. Marketing researchers ... apreference of 6.∗Also see pages 1231 and 1263. Marketing Research: Uncovering Competitive AdvantagesWarren F. KuhfeldAbstractSAS provides a variety ofmethods for analyzing marketing data...
... and M.J. Burge, Principles of Digital Image Processing: Advanced Methods, PrefaceThis is the 3rdvolume of the authors’ textbook series on Principles of DigitalImage Processing that is predominantly ... are available in manyimage processing systems but are often used without a thorough understanding of their inner workings. This particularly applies to the contents of the firstfive chapters on ... taking the mean or the median of the whole image. This splits theset of pixels into a background and a foreground set, both of which should benon-empty. Next, the means of both sets are calculated...
... thefamily of random processes”) is a fixed subset of RL,forsomefixed integer L.Forafixedq∈ Q, we think of {xq(t), t ∈ Z}as a random process in discrete time, and we assume that this process ... the family of enveloped chirp processes.3.3. A Family of Chirp Processes. In this example, we willstudy measurements of heart rate variability (HRV), [16].Such measurements are often modeled ... estimation of the Wigner-Ville spectrum of Gaussianlocally stationary processes,” IEEE Transactions on SignalProcessing, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 73–84, 2007. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing...
... FFT(a)Radix-4butterflyPE4Commutator4-channelMDCSDF3N/42N/4N/4N/4-point FFT(b)Figure 1: (a) Architecture of an FFT processor with parallelismdegree of two. (b) Architecture of an FFT processor with parallelismdegree of four.by the radix-2/22/23single-path ... Architecture of FFT Processors with MIMOConfiguration and Parallel ProcessingIn Ta ble 1 , we have listed some essential parameters in severalrecent OFDM standards/drafts. Note that in UWB usingMB-OFDM ... WiMAXOFDM mode,” in Proceedings of the International Symposiumon Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems,December 2006.[6] Y. W. Lin and C. Y. Lee, “Design of an FFT/IFFT processorfor...
... pagesdoi:10.1155/2009/586487 Research ArticleThe Methodsof Hilbert Spaces and Structure of the Fixed-Point Set of Lipschitzian MappingJarosław G´ornickiDepartment of Mathematics, Rzesz´ow University of Technology, ... techniques of asymptotic centers and the methodsof Hilbert spaces, we establish some result on thestructure of fixed point sets for mappings with lipschitzian iterates in a Hilbert space. Theclass of ... structure of fixed-point sets of uniformly Lipschitzian mappings,”Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 345–350, 2007.7 J. G´ornicki, “Remarks on the structure of the...
... 1:Base-2logarithmofthevariancesofthewaveletcoefficients (a) of the process x(t)(withγ = 1), (b) of white noise (γ = 0), (c) of the compound signal, (d) the difference sequence of the logarithm of the variances of ... superposition of 1/fγnoise (time-correlated) and white noise (time invariant)processes [2–5]. The estimations of GPS noise characteristics(i.e., the spectral exponent of the 1/fγ process, the ... he 1/ffamily of fractal processes,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 81,no. 10, pp. 1428–1450, 1993.[2] D. C. Agnew, “The time-domain behavior of power-lawnoises,” Geophysical Research Letters,...
... The receiver operating characteristics of the greatest of (GO) and the smallest of (SO) CFAR processors are also determined. The performance characteristics of distributed systemsarepresentedandcomparedinbothhomogeneousandinpresenceofinterfering ... 13000.20.40.60.81GSNR (dB)Probability of detectionCAGOSOFigure 3: Probability of detection of CA, CAGO, and CASO CFARprocessors in homogeneous Pearson background as a function of GSNR= 20 log(σs/γ). ... 12000.20.40.60.81GSNR (dB)Probability of detectionCACASOCAGOFigure 4: Probability of detection of CA, CAGO, and CASO CFARprocessors in homogeneous Pearson background and in presence of three interfering...
... business-to-business marketing. ”Phylis Mansfield, PhDAssistant Professor of Marketing, Penn State, Erie“This book provides an excellent,state -of- the-art overview of thefield of business marketing research. ... business-to-business marketing. ”Christian Homburg, PhDProfessor of Marketing and Chair ofMarketing Department,Director of the Institute for Market-OrientedManagement,University of Mannheim, Germany CONTENTSAbout ... 0-7890-2312-1 (soft : alk. paper)1. Industrial marketing Research. 2. Marketing research. I. Reid, David A. (David Alan) II.Plank, Richard E. III. Journal of business-to-business marketing. IV....
... Business Marketing The international aspects of business marketing have a fairly ex-tensive research history. Research in this area can be grouped into •that “a remarkable degree of parallel research, ... final area ofresearch takes a more macro view of cross-functionalefforts in organizations. Lim and Reid (1992), Cespedes (1994), and Hutt(1995) are all examples of this type of research. Of these, ... studies/models of OBB.Johnston. Johnston’s (1981) review begins with an examination of the breadth of OBB research. He suggests that the complexity of theorganizational buying process has limited research...