Improving attainment across a whole district: peer tutoring in a randomised controlled trial.
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The Importance of Districts. (2006)
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Changes in Children's Cognitive Development at the Start of School 2000-2006. (2007)
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Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants (2007)
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We investigate design-weighted local smoothing and show that the optimal (bias-minimizing) weights have similar form and interpretation as the optimal weights given by the Horvitz-Thompson theorem known from sampling theory. We set forth that the haz... Read More about Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants.
Making the EM algorithm for NPML estimation less sensitive to tuning parameters (2005)
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Random Effect Modelling for Regression Models with Gamma-distributed response (2006)
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Analyzing Irish suicide rates with mixture models (2006)
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In the analysis of morbidity and mortality data, variance component models are commonly used to provide an improvement in the estimation of rates for small regions which typically show large variability. This article investigates Irish suicide data u... Read More about Analyzing Irish suicide rates with mixture models.
The fitting of multifunctions: an approach to nonparametric multimodal regression (2006)
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In the last decades a lot of research has been devoted to smoothing in the sense of nonparametric regression. However, this work has nearly exclusively concentrated on fitting regression functions. When the conditional distribution of y|x is multimod... Read More about The fitting of multifunctions: an approach to nonparametric multimodal regression.
Cross County Comparisons of Progress in the First Year of School. (2006)
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Leadership matters: A commentary by Professor P. Tymms and Dr. C. Merrell. (2006)
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Model free endurance markers based on the second derivative of blood lactate curves (2005)
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Blood lactate assessment is used regularly by exercise physiologists as a predictor of endurance performance. Typically fingertip blood samples are collected at selected running speeds on a treadmill and a plot of lactate concentration against worklo... Read More about Model free endurance markers based on the second derivative of blood lactate curves.
A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators. (2007)
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Nonparametric derivative estimation has never attracted much attention as one gets the derivative estimates as ``by-products'' from a local polynomial or spline fit. However, these estimates often suffer from boundary effects and are very sensitive t... Read More about A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators..
Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Local Principal Curves (2005)
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A new approach to find the underlying structure of a multidimensional data cloud is proposed, which is based on a localized version of principal components analysis. More specifically, we calculate a series of local centers of mass and move through t... Read More about Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Local Principal Curves.
Keynote: An Overview of Peer Mentoring (2005)
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The Assessment Revolution (2005)
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Academic Standards - How do you monitor and have they fallen? (2005)
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Using the Methods of Science to Improve education: Monitoring, Research and Feedback for Students, Teachers and Schools (2005)
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The Impact of Government Initiatives on Reading (2005)
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A Longitudinal Study of the Achievements, Progress and Attitues of Severely Inattentive Hyperactive and Impulsive Young Children (2005)
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Role Models, School Improvement and the 'Gender Gap' - Do Men bring out the best in boys and women the best in girls (2005)
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