Authors: Rong Ma, Zijian Guo, T. Tony Cai, Hongzhe Li
arXiv
This paper studies the problem of statistical inference for genetic relatedness between binary traits based on individual-level genome-wide association data. Specifically, under the high-dimensional l...
Authors: Angelo D'Ambrosio, Hajo Grundmann, Tjibbe Donker
arXiv
The exponential growth of scientific production makes secondary literature abridgements increasingly demanding. We introduce a new open-source framework for systematic reviews that significantly reduc...
Authors: Henri Pesonen, Umberto Simola, Alvaro Köhn-Luque, Henri Vuollekoski, Xiaoran Lai, Arnoldo Frigessi, Samuel Kaski, David T. Frazier, Worapree Maneesoonthorn, Gael M. Martin, Jukka Corander
arXiv
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) has advanced in two decades from a seminal idea to a practically applicable inference tool for simulator-based statistical models, which are becoming increasingl...
Authors: Alan F. Karr, Jason Hauzel, Adam A. Porter, Marcel Schaefer
arXiv
We propose and apply a novel paradigm for characterization of genome data quality, which quantifies the effects of intentional degradation of quality. The rationale is that the higher the initial qual...
Authors: Stan Yip, Yinghong Zou, Ronald Tsz Hin Hung, Ka Fai Cedric Yiu
arXiv
This article presents a holistic compound Poisson regression model framework to forecast number of corner kicks taken in association football. Corner kick taken events are often decisive in the match...
Authors: Yuyang Chen, Kaiming Bi, Chih-Hang J. Wu, David Ben-Arieh, Ashesh Sinha
arXiv
Bayesian Optimization algorithm has become a promising approach for nonlinear global optimization problems and many machine learning applications. Over the past few years, improvements and enhancement...
Authors: Chris Fields, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin
arXiv
Conceptual and mathematical models of neurons have lagged behind empirical understanding for decades. Here we extend previous work in modeling biological systems with fully scale-independent quantum i...
Authors: Pedro Izquierdo Lehmann, Rodrigo F. Cadiz, Carlos A. Sing Long
arXiv
The sweet spot can be interpreted as the region where acoustic sources create a spatial auditory illusion. We study the problem of maximizing this sweet spot when reproducing a desired sound wave usin...
Authors: Chen Tang, Han Lin Shang, Yanrong Yang
arXiv
Modelling and forecasting homogeneous age-specific mortality rates of multiple countries could lead to improvements in long-term forecasting. Data fed into joint models are often grouped according to...
Authors: Makoto M. Kelp, Samuel Lin, J. Nathan Kutz, Loretta J. Mickley
arXiv
Considerable financial resources are allocated for measuring ambient air pollution in the United States, yet the locations for these monitoring sites may not be optimized to capture the full extent of...
Authors: Joshua Ong, David Kulpanowski, Yangxinyu Xie, Evdokia Nikolova, Ngoc Mai Tran
arXiv
Emergency Medical Systems (EMS) provide crucial pre-hospital care and transportation. Faster EMS response time provides quicker pre-hospital care and thus increases survival rate. We reduce response t...
Authors: Charlie Kirkwood, Theo Economou, Henry Odbert, Nicolas Pugeault
arXiv
As the costs of sensors and associated IT infrastructure decreases - as exemplified by the Internet of Things - increasing volumes of observational data are becoming available for use by environmental...
Authors: Elisa Borowski, Jason Soria, Joseph Schofer, Amanda Stathopoulos
arXiv
Urban rail transit networks provide critical access to opportunities and livelihood in many urban systems. Ensuring that these services are resilient (that is, exhibiting efficient response to and rec...
Authors: Johannes H. Uhl, Stefan Leyk, Lori M. Hunter, Catherine B. Talbot, Dylan S. Connor, Jeremiah J. Nieves, Myron Gutmann
arXiv
Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, or socioeconomic processes across the rural-urban continuum. However, existing county-level classificati...
Authors: Peng Ding, Tianyu Guo
arXiv
\citet{Rosenbaum83ps} introduced the notion of the propensity score and discussed its central role in causal inference with observational studies. Their paper, however, caused a fundamental incoherenc...