Conducting simulation studies for computerized adaptive testing using SimulCAT: an instructional piece [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2018 Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) technology is widely used in a variety of licensing and certification examinations administered to health professionals in the United States.
Kyung (Chris) Tyek Han
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Energy conservation and numerical stability for the reduced MHD models of the non-linear JOREK code [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we present a rigorous derivation of the reduced MHD models with and without parallel velocity that are implemented in the non-linear MHD code JOREK.
Franck, Emmanuel +3 more
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Stochastic Newton Sampler: The R Package sns
Journal of Statistical Software, 2016 The R package sns implements the stochastic Newton sampler (SNS), a MetropolisHastings Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm where the proposal density function is a multivariate Gaussian based on a local, second-order Taylor-series expansion of log ...
Alireza S. Mahani +3 more
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A general second order complete active space self-consistent-field solver for large-scale systems [PDF]
, 2017 We present a new second order complete active space self-consistent field implementation to converge wavefunctions for both large active spaces and large atomic orbital (AO) bases.
Chan, Garnet Kin-Lic +2 more
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پژوهشهای ریاضی, 2021 By using a new search direction, we propose an infeasible interior-point method for monotone linear complementarity problem. The algorithm uses only one feasibility step in each iteration, and we prove that it suffices in order to obtain a polynomial ...
Nezameddin Mahdavi-Amiri +1 more
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A full-Newton step feasible interior-point algorithm for P∗(κ)-LCP based on a new search direction
Croatian Operational Research Review, 2016 In this paper, we present a full-Newton step feasible interior-point algorithm for a P∗(κ) linear complementarity problem based on a new search direction.
Behrouz Kheirfam, Masoumeh Haghighi
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Evaluation of iterative Kalman smoother schemes for multi-decadal past climate analysis with comprehensive Earth system models [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2018 Paleoclimate reconstruction based on assimilation of proxy observations requires specification of the control variables and their background statistics.
J. García-Pintado, A. Paul
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An improved search direction based on algebraic equivalent transformation technique for convex quadratic optimization [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and OptimizationThis work presents an improved interior point algorithm with full Newton step for convex quadratic optimization. Based on the technique of algebraic equivalent transformation, we first propose a new search direction for convex quadratic optimization with
Aicha Kraria +2 more
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Assessing the benefits of approximately exact step sizes for Picard and Newton solver in simulating ice flow (FEniCS-full-Stokes v.1.3.2) [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentSolving the momentum balance is the computationally expensive part of simulating the evolution of ice sheets. The momentum balance is described by the nonlinear full-Stokes equations, which are solved iteratively. We use the Picard iteration and Newton's
N. Schmidt +4 more
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A New and Efficient Interior Point Method Based on a Weight Vector for Solving LCCO Problems
Journal of Optimization, Differential Equations and Their ApplicationsIn this paper, we propose a new full-Newton step weighted interior point method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems (LCCO).
Nawel Boudjellal, Djamel Benterki
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