Authors: Alireza Javanmardi, Eyke Hüllermeier
arXiv
The main objective of Prognostics and Health Management is to estimate the Remaining Useful Lifetime (RUL), namely, the time that a system or a piece of equipment is still in working order before star...
Authors: Tim Filla, Holger Schwender, Oliver Kuß
arXiv
Propensity score (PS) methods have been increasingly used in recent years when assessing treatment effects in nonrandomized studies. In terms of statistical methods, a number of new PS weighting metho...
Authors: Elena Bortolato, Laura Ventura
arXiv
A confidence distribution is a complete tool for making frequentist inference for a parameter of interest $ψ$ based on an assumed parametric model. Indeed, it allows to reach point estimates, to asses...
Authors: Sven Banisch, Hawal Shamon
arXiv
The empirical validation of models remains one of the most important challenges in opinion dynamics. In this contribution, we report on recent developments on combining data from survey experiments wi...
Authors: Clément Laroche, Madalina Olteanu, Fabrice Rossi
arXiv
Monitoring pesticide concentration is very important for public authorities given the major concerns for environmental safety and the likelihood for increased public health risks. An important aspect...
Authors: Benjamin S. Baumer, Gregory J. Matthews, Quang Nguyen
arXiv
Sports analytics -- broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athletic performance through the analysis of data -- has expanded its footprint both in the professional sports industry and in aca...
Authors: Ulrich Oberhofer, Leonardo Rydin Gorjão, G. Cigdem Yalcin, Oliver Kamps, Veit Hagenmeyer, Benjamin Schäfer
arXiv
Mitigating climate change requires a transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy. As a result, power generation becomes more volatile and options for microgrids and islanded power-grid...
Authors: Yuhe Gao, Chengchun Shi, Rui Song
arXiv
Dynamic treatment regimes assign personalized treatments to patients sequentially over time based on their baseline information and time-varying covariates. In mobile health applications, these covari...
Authors: Kislay Raj, Aditya Singh, Abhishek Mandal, Teerath Kumar, Arunabha M. Roy
arXiv
In a growing world of technology, psychological disorders became a challenge to be solved. The methods used for cognitive stimulation are very conventional and based on one-way communication, which on...
Authors: Leikun Yin, Rahul Ghosh, Chenxi Lin, David Hale, Christoph Weigl, James Obarowski, Junxiong Zhou, Jessica Till, Xiaowei Jia, Troy Mao, Vipin Kumar, Zhenong Jin
arXiv
Cashews are grown by over 3 million smallholders in more than 40 countries worldwide as a principal source of income. As the third largest cashew producer in Africa, Benin has nearly 200,000 smallhold...
Authors: Vladimir Makarenkov, Gayane S. Barseghyan, Nadia Tahiri
arXiv
Phylogenetic trees (i.e. evolutionary trees, additive trees or X-trees) play a key role in the processes of modeling and representing species evolution. Genome evolution of a given group of species is...
Authors: Sadi Md. Redwan, Md Palash Uddin, Anwaar Ulhaq, Muhammad Imran Sharif
arXiv
Historically, the analysis of stimulus-dependent time-frequency patterns has been the cornerstone of most electroencephalography (EEG) studies. The abnormal oscillations in high-frequency waves associ...
Authors: Ankit Rao, Sooraj Sanjay, Majid Ahmadi, Anirudh Venugopalrao, Navakanta Bhat, Bart Kooi, Srinivasan Raghavan, Pavan Nukala
arXiv
Networks and systems which exhibit brain-like behavior can analyze information from intrinsically noisy and unstructured data with very low power consumption. Such characteristics arise due to the cri...
Authors: Silvio C. Patricio, Fredy Castellares, Bernardo L. Queiroz
arXiv
This paper presents a novel approach for modeling mortality rates above age 70 by proposing a mixture-based model. This model is compared to four other widely used models: the Beard, Gompertz, Makeham...
Authors: Gerald K. Cooray, Richard E. Rosch, Karl J. Friston
arXiv
We consider the theoretical constraints on interactions between coupled cortical columns. Each column comprises a set of neural populations, where each population is modelled as a neural mass. The exi...