Exploratory-Phase-Free Estimation of GP Hyperparameters in Sequential Design Methods—At the Example of Bayesian Inverse Problems [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Methods for sequential design of computer experiments typically consist of two phases. In the first phase, the exploratory phase, a space-filling initial design is used to estimate hyperparameters of a Gaussian process emulator (GPE) and to provide some ...
Michael Sinsbeck +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Reablement is a multi-professional and internationally established home-based health care service for mainly older people with the aim to reduce the need for long-term care and to promote self-determination.
Theres Wess +3 more
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Methods in Psychology, 2023 The Delphi method has been adapted to inform item refinements in educational and psychological assessment development. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design using Delphi is a common approach to gain experts' insight into why items might have ...
Kristin L.K. Koskey +6 more
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Design of a website for high school: exploratory-sequential study
AperturaThe general purpose of the study was to develop a website to improve the teaching-learning experience of high school students. A mixed methods exploratory sequential design was followed by using the Research and Development design as a basis supported ...
Kristian Armando Pineda Castillo +2 more
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A Sequential Neighbor Exploratory Experimental Design Method for Complex Simulation Metamodeling [PDF]
2019 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim), 2019 Since complex simulation contains many factors and responses that interact in a nonlinear manner, it is important to use metamodeling for representing the causal relationships within the simulation models in a compact way. With the selected mathematical structure, the effectiveness of metamodeling depends on the comprehensiveness of the training data ...
Zhi Zhu, Hessam Sarjoughian
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The Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Lockdown in the Spanish Population: An Exploratory Sequential Design [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The objectives of this study were to analyze the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown in the Spanish population and to identify what population profiles were most affected. The study used a sequential exploratory design. In the qualitative phase, 40 participants were recruited based on theoretically relevant criteria and the ...
Maria Dolores Hidalgo +2 more
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Development of a Cigarette Smoking Obscenity Scale (CSOS) in adolescents: an exploratory sequential mixed method design [PDF]
Health Promotion Perspectives, 2020 Background: Considering the increasing prevalence rate of smoking among Iranian adolescents,and recent evidence on the relationship between obscenity of smoking and tendency of adolescents towards the behavior, there is a need for an appropriate ...
Khadijeh Keshavarzian +2 more
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Design and psychometric evaluation of epilepsy-related apathy scale (E-RAS) in adults with epilepsy: a sequential exploratory mixed methods design [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2021 Background Apathy in patients with epilepsy is associated with a wide range of consequences that reduce the patient’s ability to perform social functions and participate in self-care and rehabilitation programs.
Abbas Shamsalinia +7 more
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Exploratory sequential design for creation of the Miao’s traditional patterns mobile application
Culture & History Digital JournalThis study aimed to define a data set for the design of an app that would show Miao’s traditional patterns. At the preliminary stage, the study traced the socio-cultural transformation that the Miao people went through, and which was reflected in their ...
Shubei Qiao, Yerbol Abdramanov
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Design and psychometric properties of a questionnaire to assess gender sensitivity of perinatal care services: a sequential exploratory study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Providing gender sensitive reproductive health service is recently emphasized by health organizations. This study aims to develop and assess psychometric properties of a questionnaire to assess gender sensitivity of perinatal care services (GS-
Masoumeh Simbar +5 more
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