Publications

On the Statistical Estimation of Parametric Frontier Production Functions

Direct and Cross Demand Elasticities in a Model with Many Sectors, Econometrica (Apr. 1959). Goldberger, A. S., Econometric Theory (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1964). Jor...

The Phusion Assembler

The Phusion assembler has assembled the mouse genome from the whole-genome shotgun (WGS) dataset collected by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, at ∼7.5× sequence coverage,...

An empirical examination of the amortized spread1Prior versions of this paper were entitled, `Bid–ask spreads, holding periods, and realized transaction costs.' We are grateful for many helpful comments from Yakov Amihud, Jennifer Conrad, Larry Dann, Diane Del Guercio, Dave Denis, Diane Denis, Craig Dunbar, Ed Dyl, Roger Edelen, Rob Hansen, Mark Huson, Raman Kumar, Chris Lamoureux, John McConnell, Wayne Mikkelson, Megan Partch, Henri Servaes, Vijay Singal, Mike Weisbach, Marc Zenner, and an anonymous referee. In addition, we appreciate the comments from seminar participants at the 1997 American Finance Association meetings, the University of Arizona, Kansas State University, the University of North Carolina, the 1996 Pacific Northwest Finance Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Wisconsin. This work has been partially supported by a summer research grant from the Pamplin College of Business.1

Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers

Journal Article Minimal homology requirements for PCR primers Get access Ralf Sommer, Ralf Sommer Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie der Univcrsiät MünchenMaria-Wardstrasse ...

An emerging consensus on grading recommendations?

Clinical practice guidelines have improved in quality over the past 10 years by adhering to a few basic principles, such as conducting thorough systematic reviews of relevant ev...

Empirical graph Laplacian approximation of Laplace–Beltrami operators: Large sample results

Let ${M}$ be a compact Riemannian submanifold of ${{\\bf R}^m}$ of dimension\n$\\scriptstyle{d}$ and let ${X_1,...,X_n}$ be a sample of i.i.d. points in ${M}$\nwith uniform dist...

Archiving next generation sequencing data

Next generation sequencing platforms are producing biological sequencing data in unprecedented amounts. The partners of the International Nucleotide Sequencing Database Collabor...

A systematic review of the clinical effectiveness of first-line chemotherapy for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Our aim was to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments currently licensed in Europe and recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellen...

Secular Trends in Mortality From Common Cancers in the United States by Educational Attainment, 1993–2001

The recent declines in death rates from major cancers in the United States mainly reflect declines in more highly educated individuals.

Reactivity of Thiols with Superoxide Radicals

Journal Article Reactivity of Thiols with Superoxide Radicals Get access Kozi Asada, Kozi Asada The Research Institute for Food Science, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611, Japan ...

A New Method of Predicting US and State-Level Cancer Mortality Counts for the Current Calendar Year

Every January for more than 40 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has estimated the total number of cancer deaths that are expected to occur in the United States and indiv...

Observer Reliability and Agreement

Abstract The terms observer reliability and observer agreement represent different concepts. Reliability coefficients express the ability to differentiate between subjects. Agre...