Authors: Liangyuan Hu
arXiv
We recently developed a new method riAFT-BART to draw causal inferences about population treatment effect on patient survival from clustered and censored survival data while accounting for the multile...
Authors: Georgia Papacharalampous, Hristos Tyralis
arXiv
Probabilistic forecasting is receiving growing attention nowadays in a variety of applied fields, including hydrology. Several machine learning concepts and methods are notably relevant towards addres...
Authors: Tenglong Li
arXiv
External validity is often questionable in empirical research, especially in randomized experiments due to the trade-off between internal validity and external validity. To quantify the robustness of...
Authors: Thomas Sawczuk, Anna Palczewska, Ben Jones, Jan Palczewski
arXiv
Despite having the potential to provide significant insights into tactical preparations for future matches, very few studies have considered the spatial trends of team attacking possessions in rugby l...
Authors: Marlon G. Boarnet, Xize Wang, Douglas Houston
arXiv
This paper uses a before-after, experimental-control group method to evaluate the impacts of the newly opened Expo light rail transit line in Los Angeles on personal vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss...
Authors: Xiao-Lin Wu, George Wiggans, H. Duane Norman, Asha M. Miles, Curt Van Tassell, Ransom L. Baldwin VI, Javier Burchard, Joao Durr
arXiv
Cows are typically milked two or more times on a test day, but not all these milkings are sampled and weighed. Statistical methods have been proposed to estimate daily yields in dairy cows, centering...
Authors: Mengzhenyu Zhang, Hyun-Soo Ahn, Joline Uichanco
arXiv
Bass (1969) proposed a model (the Bass model) for the timing of adoptions of a new product, where the adoption rate increases with the number of past adoptions. This model has been widely used in mark...
Authors: Gersende Fort, Barbara Pascal, Patrice Abry, Nelly Pustelnik
arXiv
Monitoring the Covid19 pandemic constitutes a critical societal stake that received considerable research efforts. The intensity of the pandemic on a given territory is efficiently measured by the re...
Authors: Bhanu Sharma, Spandan Kumar, Subhendu Ghosh, Vikram Singh
arXiv
In the brain, both neurons and glial cells work in conjunction with each other during information processing. Stimulation of neurons can cause calcium oscillations in astrocytes which in turn can affe...
Authors: Andrew Hoopes, Jocelyn S. Mora, Adrian V. Dalca, Bruce Fischl, Malte Hoffmann
arXiv
The removal of non-brain signal from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, known as skull-stripping, is an integral component of many neuroimage analysis streams. Despite their abundance, popular cla...
Authors: Sam L. Polk, Kangning Cui, Aland H. Y. Chan, David A. Coomes, Robert J. Plemmons, James M. Murphy
arXiv
Hyperspectral images taken from aircraft or satellites contain information from hundreds of spectral bands, within which lie latent lower-dimensional structures that can be exploited for classifying v...
Authors: Irina Higgins, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Rezende
arXiv
Biological intelligence is remarkable in its ability to produce complex behaviour in many diverse situations through data efficient, generalisable and transferable skill acquisition. It is believed th...
Authors: Willy Wong
arXiv
A fundamental inequality governing the spike activity of peripheral neurons is derived and tested against auditory data. This inequality states that the steady-state firing rate must lie between the a...
Authors: Tinkle Chugh, Endi Ymeraj
arXiv
Wind energy is one of the cleanest renewable electricity sources and can help in addressing the challenge of climate change. One of the drawbacks of wind-generated energy is the large space necessary...
Authors: Zhe He, Shubo Tian, Arslan Erdengasileng, Neil Charness, Jiang Bian
arXiv
Subtyping of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can facilitate diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and disease management. It can also support the testing of new prevention and treatment strategies through clinical...