The presence of clusters within data is often encountered in medicine, biology and social sciences. With such data, the observations in the data cannot be regarded as independent since the observations within a cluster might ...

This research considers electronic devices which are prone to fail after some period of time. Electronic devices usually can have more than one cause of failure. In practice, it is important to differentiate between these ...

Presence of Clusters/ sub-groups within datasets is a common phenomenon in statistical data analysis. Examples include repeated measures data, longitudinal data, hierarchical data, and etc. The shared feature in such ...

Analysis of medical data mostly consider survival and mortality count as response variables in identifying factors that are associated with the survival times and with the death count of patients. However, it is quite ...

A system can be defined as a set of components interconnected to perform a given task. Such a system has a high possibility of failure compared to a single component, since it is a combination of different components ...

Coconut is a perennial crop which significantly contributes to the Sri Lankan economy. It is the third largest foreign exchange earner for the country. Recently Sri Lanka faced high reduction in coconut yield. Coconut ...

For studying and controlling the vibration effects present at vehicular road transportation, the quantitative estimation and laboratory simulation of the same becomes vital. Using an accelerometer, the vibration acceleration ...

The versatility of the Finger-Feel-Firmness (FFF) test method has been proved with a series of panel evaluations. Judgment of the panel on the pattern of the variation of FFF, agrees with that of the author. An individual ...

Firmnesses of farm fresh samples of three tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) varieties grown in Sri Lanka, named, Maheshi, HF-2 and T-146 were studied. The firmness of the tomatoes was measured using Effegi type Bishop FT ...