CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE CRASH RESPONSES BASED ON WAVELET DECOMPOSITIONS

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1237-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.Q. CHENG ◽  
J.A. PELLETTIERE
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Atkinson ◽  
Raymond R. Hill ◽  
Joseph J. Pignatiello ◽  
G. Geoffrey Vining ◽  
Edward D. White ◽  
...  

Model validation is a vital step in the simulation development process to ensure that a model is truly representative of the system that it is meant to model. One aspect of model validation that deserves special attention is when validation is required for the transient phase of a process. The transient phase may be characterized as the dynamic portion of a signal that exhibits nonstationary behavior. A specific concern associated with validating a model's transient phase is that the experimental system data are often contaminated with noise, due to the short duration and sharp variations in the data, thus hiding the underlying signal which models seek to replicate. This paper proposes a validation process that uses wavelet thresholding as an effective method for denoising the system and model data signals to properly validate the transient phase of a model. This paper utilizes wavelet thresholded signals to calculate a validation metric that incorporates shape, phase, and magnitude error. The paper compares this validation approach to an approach that uses wavelet decompositions to denoise the data signals. Finally, a simulation study and empirical data from an automobile crash study illustrates the advantages of our wavelet thresholding validation approach.


Author(s):  
D.R. Ensor ◽  
C.G. Jensen ◽  
J.A. Fillery ◽  
R.J.K. Baker

Because periodicity is a major indicator of structural organisation numerous methods have been devised to demonstrate periodicity masked by background “noise” in the electron microscope image (e.g. photographic image reinforcement, Markham et al, 1964; optical diffraction techniques, Horne, 1977; McIntosh,1974). Computer correlation analysis of a densitometer tracing provides another means of minimising "noise". The correlation process uncovers periodic information by cancelling random elements. The technique is easily executed, the results are readily interpreted and the computer removes tedium, lends accuracy and assists in impartiality.A scanning densitometer was adapted to allow computer control of the scan and to give direct computer storage of the data. A photographic transparency of the image to be scanned is mounted on a stage coupled directly to an accurate screw thread driven by a stepping motor. The stage is moved so that the fixed beam of the densitometer (which is directed normal to the transparency) traces a straight line along the structure of interest in the image.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Petermann ◽  
Franz Petermann ◽  
Ina Schreyer

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a screening instrument that addresses positive and negative behavioral attributes of children and adolescents. Although this questionnaire has been used in Germany to gather information from parents and teachers of preschoolers, few studies exist that verify the validity of the German SDQ for this age. In the present study, teacher ratings were collected for 282 children aged 36 to 60 months (boys = 156; girls = 126). Likewise, teacher ratings were collected with another German checklist for behavior problems and behavior disorders at preschool age (Verhaltensbeurteilungsbogen für Vorschulkinder, VBV 3–6). Moreover, children’s developmental status was assessed. Evaluation included correlation analysis as well as canonical correlation analysis to assess the multivariate relationship between the set of SDQ variables and the set of VBV variables. Discriminant analyses were used to clarify which SDQ variables are useful to differentiate between children with or without developmental delay in a multivariate model. The results of correlation and discriminant analyses underline the validity of the SDQ for preschoolers. According to these results, the German teacher SDQ is recommended as a convenient and valid screening instrument to assess positive and negative behavior of preschool age children.


1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. van Pelt ◽  
Ph. H. Quanjer ◽  
M. E. Wise ◽  
E. van der Burg ◽  
R. van der Lende

SummaryAs part of a population study on chronic lung disease in the Netherlands, an investigation is made of the relationship of both age and sex with indices describing the maximum expiratory flow-volume (MEFV) curve. To determine the relationship, non-linear canonical correlation was used as realized in the computer program CANALS, a combination of ordinary canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and non-linear transformations of the variables. This method enhances the generality of the relationship to be found and has the advantage of showing the relative importance of categories or ranges within a variable with respect to that relationship. The above is exemplified by describing the relationship of age and sex with variables concerning respiratory symptoms and smoking habits. The analysis of age and sex with MEFV curve indices shows that non-linear canonical correlation analysis is an efficient tool in analysing size and shape of the MEFV curve and can be used to derive parameters concerning the whole curve.


Author(s):  
Hyounkyun Oh ◽  
Younghan Jung ◽  
Junyong Ahn ◽  
Sujin Kim ◽  
M. Myung Jeong

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
A. V. Gvozdev ◽  
A. M. Panin ◽  
N. E. Kushlinsky ◽  
L. R. Fahrislamova ◽  
A. M. Tsitsiashvili

An assessment and correlation analysis was performed between the main indicators when using the drug etoricoxib for the removal of third molars.


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