Essays on Parametric

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Article Critique The paper presents a statistical analysis of Brisbois, Kock, Watanabe, Mirhosseini, Lamoureux, Chasen, MacDonald, Baracos, and Wisner (2011) article "delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol may palliate altered chemosensory perception in cancer patients: results of a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled pilot trial". The research aimed at determining whether Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) therapy on cancer patients can improve smell and taste perception. This is well outlined in the article. The research was triggered by the effect of anorexia and weight loss on patients with advanced cancer; this results to functional loss, low quality life and low survival chances. Therefore, the research investigated the ...

Rule discovery

Every database administrator needs to uncover new information concerning the data relations and database relations. Rule discovery therefore is the name given to this process. Rule discovery is defined as the search for patterns, regularities and correlations in the target database by utilizing every available information source (Shneiderman, & Goodman, 2006). By the realization of these relations and regularities, application of optimization queries becomes much easier in the process. A clear and a better outcome will be realized as compared to a situation where the knowledge of the rules in question is not known.

In the past, researchers have researched in ...