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One of the major concerns in structural health management (SHM) is the early detection of growing crack. Using this, future consequential damage due to crack propagation can be reduced or eliminated by scheduling maintenance which can prevent costly downtime. Early crack detecti…

In the first two chapters, I examine different types of government spending while literature usually treats government spending as a homogenous compound. I disaggregate the government spending into three parts; namely, government investment, government wage component consumption…

Bayesian statistical methods are becoming increasingly in demand in clinical and public health research. In the context of causal inference, Bayesian methods propagate estimation uncertainty, allow direct probability summaries of the causal parameters of interest, and afford us …