Authors: Caio Waisman, Navdeep S. Sahni, Harikesh S. Nair, Xiliang Lin
arXiv
This paper studies the measurement of advertising effects on online platforms when parallel experimentation occurs, that is, when multiple advertisers experiment concurrently. It provides a framework...
Authors: Jinlin Xiang, Eli Shlizerman
arXiv
When learning new tasks in a sequential manner, deep neural networks tend to forget tasks that they previously learned, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting. Class incremental learning methods...
Authors: Julien St-Pierre, Karim Oualkacha, Sahir Rai Bhatnagar
arXiv
Sparse regularized regression methods are now widely used in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to address the multiple testing burden that limits discovery of potentially important predictors. Li...
Authors: Julien Dirani, Liina Pylkkänen
arXiv
To what extent does language production activate amodal conceptual representations? In picture naming, we view specific exemplars of concepts and then name them with a category label, like 'dog'. In c...
Authors: Xiao Liu, Xinchao Liu
arXiv
Low dimensional and computationally less expensive Reduced-Order Models (ROMs) have been widely used to capture the dominant behaviors of high-dimensional systems. A ROM can be obtained, using the wel...
Authors: Albee Y. Ling, Maria E. Montez-Rath, Paulo Carita, Karen Chandross, Laurence Lucats, Zhaoling Meng, Bernard Sebastien, Kris Kapphahn, Manisha Desai
arXiv
Generalizability and transportability methods have been proposed to address the external validity bias of randomized clinical trials that results from differences in the distribution of treatment effe...
Authors: Bo Zhang, Jiayao Zhang
arXiv
We examine the role of textual data as study units when conducting causal inference by drawing parallels between human subjects and organized texts. %in human population research. We elaborate on key...
Authors: Vartan Choulakian
arXiv
In his seminal paper Goodman (1996) introduced marginal-free correspondence analysis; where his principal aim was to reconcile Pearson correlation measure with Yule's association measure in the analys...
Authors: Benjamin Avanzi, Mark Lavender, Greg Taylor, Bernard Wong
arXiv
Traditional techniques for calculating outstanding claim liabilities such as the chain ladder are notoriously at risk of being distorted by outliers in past claims data. Unfortunately, the literature...
Authors: Sundara Rajan Srinivasavaradhan, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Christina Fragouli, Suhas Diggavi
arXiv
We study the problem of group testing with non-identical, independent priors. So far, the pooling strategies that have been proposed in the literature take the following approach: a hand-crafted test...
Authors: Chau Tran, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Sang-Yun Oh, Alexander Petersen
arXiv
Recently, a special case of precision matrix estimation based on a distributionally robust optimization (DRO) framework has been shown to be equivalent to the graphical lasso. From this formulation, a...
Authors: Gabrielle M. Schroeder, Philippa J. Karoly, Matias Maturana, Mariella Panagiotopoulou, Peter N. Taylor, Mark J. Cook, Yujiang Wang
arXiv
Background and Objectives: Many biological processes are modulated by rhythms on circadian and multidien timescales. In focal epilepsy, various seizure features, such as spread and duration, can chang...
Authors: Kevin Han
arXiv
When estimating treatment effects, the golden standard is to conduct a randomized experiment and then contrast outcomes associated with the treatment group and the control group. However, in many case...
Authors: Tal El-Hay, Chen Yanover
arXiv
Methods that address data shifts usually assume full access to multiple datasets. In the healthcare domain, however, privacy-preserving regulations as well as commercial interests limit data availabil...
Authors: Lin Ge, Xinming An, Donglin Zeng, Samuel McLean, Ronald Kessler, Rui Song
arXiv
Adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS) are common among veterans and millions of Americans after traumatic exposures, resulting in substantial burdens for trauma survivors and society....