Authors: Ting Yan, Jinfeng Xu, Yaning Yang
arXiv
In a wide class of paired comparisons, especially in the sports games, in which all subjects are divided into several groups, the intragroup comparisons are dense and the intergroup comparisons are sp...
Authors: Gilles Guillot, Sabrina Renaud, Ronan Ledevin, Joahn Michaux, Julien Claude
arXiv
Recognition of evolutionary units (species, populations) requires integrating several kinds of data such as genetic or phenotypic markers or spatial information, in order to get a comprehensive view c...
Authors: Sandra Plancade, Yves Rozenholc, Eiliv Lund
arXiv
Motivation: Illumina BeadArray technology includes negative control features that allow a precise estimation of the background noise. As an alternative to the background subtraction proposed in BeadSt...
Authors: J. S. Yang, M. W. Vannier, F. Wang, Y. Deng, F. R. Ou, J. R. Bennett, Y. Liu, G. Wang
arXiv
In a recent study by Ginther et al., the probability of receiving a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1 award was related to the applicant's race/ethnicity. The results indicate black/African...
Authors: Demian Battaglia, Annette Witt, Fred Wolf, Theo Geisel
arXiv
Anatomic connections between brain areas affect information flow between neuronal circuits and the synchronization of neuronal activity. However, such structural connectivity does not coincide with ef...
Authors: Siew Li Tan, David J. Nott
arXiv
Mixtures of linear mixed models (MLMMs) are useful for clustering grouped data and can be estimated by likelihood maximization through the EM algorithm. The conventional approach to determining a suit...
Authors: Nicolas Chaumont, Christoph Adami
arXiv
Artificially evolving foraging behavior in simulated legged animals has proved to be a notoriously difficult task. Here, we co-evolve the morphology and controller for virtual organisms in a three-dim...
Authors: Lorenzo Trippa, Giovanni Parmigiani
arXiv
The purpose of cancer genome sequencing studies is to determine the nature and types of alterations present in a typical cancer and to discover genes mutated at high frequencies. In this article we di...
Authors: Vishesh Karwa, Aleksandra B. Slavković, Eric T. Donnell
arXiv
The research questions that motivate transportation safety studies are causal in nature. Safety researchers typically use observational data to answer such questions, but often without appropriate cau...
Authors: Maryam Abolfath-Beygi, Vikram Krishnamurthy
arXiv
This paper constructs dynamical models and estimation algorithms for the concentration of target molecules in a fluid flow using an array of novel biosensors. Each biosensor is constructed out of prot...
Authors: W. J. Freeman, R. Livi, M. Obinata, G. Vitiello
arXiv
The formation of amplitude modulated and phase modulated assemblies of neurons is observed in the brain functional activity. The study of the formation of such structures requires that the analysis ha...
Authors: Daniel Simpson, Janine Illian, Finn Lindgren, Sigrunn Sørbye, Håvard Rue
arXiv
This paper introduces a new method for performing computational inference on log-Gaussian Cox processes. The likelihood is approximated directly by making novel use of a continuously specified Gaussia...
Authors: Andras Laszlo
arXiv
A frequently faced task in experimental physics is to measure the probability distribution of some quantity. Often this quantity to be measured is smeared by a non-ideal detector response or by some p...
Authors: Kyle B. Johnston, Terry D. Oswalt, David Valls-Gabaud
arXiv
The secular stellar mass-loss causes an amplification of the orbital separation in fragile, common proper motion, binary systems with separations of the order of 1000 A.U. In these systems, companions...
Authors: Leo Lahti, Martin Schäfer, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Silvio Bicciato, Martin Dugas
arXiv
A variety of genome-wide profiling techniques are available to probe complementary aspects of genome structure and function. Integrative analysis of heterogeneous data sources can reveal higher-level...