Tierney and Kadane (1986) presented a simple second-order approximation for posterior expectations of positive functions. They used Laplace's method for asymptotic evaluation of integrals, in which ...

A PHASE relation familiar to students of applied mathematics exists between a simple harmonic oscillation and its derivative. Similar relations exist between exponential functions and their ...

Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Jun., 2003), pp. 827-835 (9 pages) Aim This paper reviews possible candidate models that may be used in theoretical modelling and empirical studies of ...