Authors: Paulo F. C. Tilles, Jose F. Fontanari
arXiv
An explanation for the acquisition of word-object mappings is the associative learning in a cross-situational scenario. Here we present analytical results of the performance of a simple associative le...
Authors: Robert J. Vickerstaff, Allen Cheung
arXiv
Path integration is a navigation strategy widely observed in nature where an animal maintains a running estimate of its location during an excursion. Evidence suggests it is both ancient and ubiquitou...
Authors: Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Brenda McCowan
arXiv
Long-range correlations are found in symbolic sequences from human language, music and DNA. Determining the span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences is crucial for shedding light on their com...
Authors: Michael Neubauer, Mark Schilling, Joel Zeitlin
arXiv
There have been several instances in our nation's history in which the presidential candidate who received the most popular votes did not win the presidency. Using a principal components analysis of r...
Authors: Bin Xu, Zhijian Wang
arXiv
In mixed strategy 2\times2 population games, the realization of maximum entropy (Maxent) is of the theoretical expectation. We evaluate this theoretical prediction in the experimental economics game d...
Authors: Anna Bershteyn, Daniel J. Klein, Edward Wenger, Philip A. Eckhoff
arXiv
The expansion of tools against HIV transmission has brought increased interest in epidemiological models that can predict the impact of these interventions. The EMOD-HIV model was recently compared to...
Authors: Fred Espen Benth, Claudia Klüppelberg, Gernot Müller, Linda Vos
arXiv
We present a new model for the electricity spot price dynamics, which is able to capture seasonality, low-frequency dynamics and the extreme spikes in the market. Instead of the usual purely determini...
Authors: Kanaka Rajan, William Bialek
arXiv
The concept of feature selectivity in sensory signal processing can be formalized as dimensionality reduction: in a stimulus space of very high dimensions, neurons respond only to variations within so...
Authors: Roxana A. Stephanescu, R. G. Shivakeshavan, Sachin S. Talathi
arXiv
Epilepsy is a neurological disease characterized by recurrent and spontaneous seizures. It affects approximately 50 million people worldwide. In majority of the cases accurate diagnosis of the disease...
Authors: Zhiwei Zhang, Paul S. Albert, Bruce Simons-Morton
arXiv
Most of the available methods for longitudinal data analysis are designed and validated for the situation where the number of subjects is large and the number of observations per subject is relatively...
Authors: Paul R. Rosenbaum
arXiv
A sensitivity analysis in an observational study determines the magnitude of bias from nonrandom treatment assignment that would need to be present to alter the qualitative conclusions of a naïve anal...
Authors: The-Minh Luong, Yves Rozenholc, Gregory Nuel
arXiv
The detection of change-points in heterogeneous sequences is a statistical challenge with applications across a wide variety of fields. In bioinformatics, a vast amount of methodology exists to identi...
Authors: Klaus Jaffe, Guillermo Mascitti, Daniella Seguias
arXiv
Non-linear dynamics is probably much more common in the epigenetic dynamics of living beings than hitherto recognized. Here we report a case of global bifurcation triggered by gender that affects high...
Authors: Hedibert F. Lopes, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Esther Salazar, Mariana Gómez, Marcel Achkar
arXiv
We propose a model-based vulnerability index of the population from Uruguay to vector-borne diseases. We have available measurements of a set of variables in the census tract level of the 19 Departmen...
Authors: Mokin Lee, Chanseok Park
arXiv
Many of the early works in the quality control literature construct control limits through the use of graphs and tables as described in Wortham and Ringer (1972). However, the methods used in this lit...