We apply this model to the serological data of ABO, MNSs, and Rh blood groups of the atomic bomb survivors and their children. The rates of false positive error and false negative error are close to zero. The associations of the underlying true response with the errors are mostly weak. We conclude that the proposed model is easy to apply to a reliability study with a small number of repeats and that the estimates provide valuable information to examine the reliability of the instrument. Using nonlinear models, the growth of the maxillary sinus was best described with a Gompertz model for female and a Logistic model for male.
Female monkeys experience a growth spurt earlier and at a lower degree than males.
Sexual dimorphism in maxillary sinus size in pig-tailed macaques seems to be the result from a combination of both differences in the velocity and length of growth. On a land use map of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 1 cm x 1 cm meshes were drawn, and all the kinds of land occurred in each cell were recorded. A beta-binomial distribution with classes of 0 to 4 was fitted to the counted data for each kind of land use. The beta-binomial distribution contains two parameters concerning the frequency of occurrence per unit cell and the heterogeneity of occurrence over the area. Three mountainous, agricultural and urban areas in Ibaraki prefecture were sampled and compared with each other using this method.