Parameterizing Models To Test The Hypotheses You Want: Coding Indicator Variables And Modified Continuous Variables
White Papers An alternative to using the CLASS statement for categorical variables is to code one's own indicator variables, which allows even more control over the parameterization and associated hypotheses. This paper provides a series of examples to allow...
[December 26, 2006, 23:00]
IT Recovery -- Who Do You Trust?
News How much companies spend on IT is the prime indicator of the health of the IT market. According to Butler, "As a lead indicator of the fortunes of the IT industry, the Technology Sentiment Index was showing no signs of improvement -- quite the...
[March 14, 2003, 11:37]
Information Fusion In Biometrics
White Papers User verification systems that use a single biometric indicator often have to contend with noisy sensor data, restricted degrees of freedom and unacceptable error rates. These systems also help achieve an increase in performance that may not be...
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Intel Net Phone Beta Updated
News Other new features include a busy line indicator, call progress indicator and better compression that provides 30 per cent smaller files. The chip giant claims Internet Phone differs from similar utilities in that it supports H.323-based...
[September 23, 1996, 14:10]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Other times it doesn't and there's no good indicator that the program is still running. Windows programs that do that will minimize to the system tray, a good indicator. I bought a mini mac to check out OS X but i found that it was much more...
[November 10, 2005, 5:09]
Gartner: Chip Spending To Fall 20 Percent
Blog The semiconductor market is a prime indicator of much of the technology sector since so many products are based on chips, so the news could be taken as an indicator that the promised recession that has begun in the US is perhaps here at last.
[April 16, 2008, 11:53]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Other times it doesn't and there's no good indicator that the program is still running. Windows programs that do that will minimize to the system tray, a good indicator. Rotten Apple.oh dear oh dear. YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT A CHANCE!
[May 12, 2006, 12:22]
Oracle Shares Fall As Software Sales Disappoint
News Sales of new software, which investors look to as a key indicator of the future financial performance of business-software makers, rose to $1.6bn in the quarter, from $1.4bn a year earlier. New software sales figures are a key indicator because...
[March 27, 2008, 11:41]
Design And Implementation Of A Bluetooth Signal Strength Based Location Sensing System
White Papers The paper discusses problems which arise when the Bluetooth RSSI (received signal strength indicator) is used as a signal strength indicator, and proposes a novel access point that supports variable attenuators to overcome these problems.
[September 20, 2005, 0:00]
Athlon 4 And MP To Get XP Speed Features
News With the introduction of Quantispeed, in the shape of the Athlon XP, AMD is attempting to end the consumer perception that clock frequency is a good indicator of processor performance. Launching a broadside against Intel's penchant for clock...
[October 10, 2001, 11:30]
Surge In Traffic Hints At Upturn
News Another encouraging sign is a recent increase in the number of temporary jobs, considered a leading indicator of a pick-up in full-time jobs, he added. All I can say is that when (the) dot-com (boom) started, that was my indicator that something...
[October 3, 2003, 10:04]
Compaq Brushes Up IPaq
News It also appears to be customised for Bluetooth, with a built-in status indicator near the SD card slot. In terms of design, the new iPaq will keep much the same look as its predecessors, with a shiny chrome casing, but will add a black plastic...
[September 28, 2001, 13:30]
The Day Ahead: Engage And DoubleClick Square Off On Privacy Issue
News Twenty years of direct marketing experience shows the best indicator of future purchases is past purchases," he said. Engage can track what you did three clicks ago, but DoubleClick's marriage of online and offline data may not be the best...
[February 24, 2000, 12:19]
EMC Earnings To Illuminate Storage Industry Health
News Another sunny indicator could be Inrange Technologies, which makes storage networking hardware used to connect servers to high-end storage systems, such as those from EMC. Another indicator for the health of the storage industry will be the...
[January 23, 2001, 10:20]
Sun's Gamble Explained
News Also, a leading indicator for the growth is the open sourcing of Solaris 10. Certainly we're prioritizing growth as a company, and the leading indicator for us of growth is the adoption of our software platforms.
[February 8, 2005, 11:30]
Monitoring W2K Performance
News This counter was designed as a primary indicator of processor activity. This counter was designed as a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause system delays. Measuring systems' performance on a network is one way for a company to...
[December 4, 2002, 14:47]
Don't Leave Risk Management To Chance
News Network availability will also be another key indicator of the management of risk for the IT department — the provision of an end-to-end service to individual or groups of users shows how IT has managed to support the organisation in its pursuit...
[October 4, 2005, 16:00]
SAP Marches To Its Own Beat
News Yet because SAP's sales in newer areas largely come from mining its ERP customers, it's not a true indicator of the market, Hochfeld and Bond said. But instead of comments from a few executives, a far better indicator of the industry's progress...
[January 15, 2002, 16:25]
Processor Benchmarks: Intel Versus AMD
Talkback As with A64's the raw cpu MHz of a Barton CPU is not of its own an indicator of how well it performs. Hi Branden. Just reading between the lines your Barton set up looks well below par (particularly the main board) and with a little work I'm sure...
[February 22, 2005, 11:13]
Microsoft OneCare Is Your Best Protection. Really
Talkback Past behaviour is a good indicator for future behaviour. With Microsoft you get promised a lot and you pay a lot. Only to have to wait for it longer then expected and find it harder to maintain and keep secure then expected.
[May 13, 2005, 23:19]

