Authors: Christian S. Pilz, Benjamin Clemens, Inka C. Hiss, Christoph Weiss, Ulrich Canzler, Jarek Krajewski, Ute Habel, Steffen Leonhardt
arXiv
We study the statistical properties of facial behaviour altered by the regulation of brain arousal in the clinical domain of psychiatry. The underlying mechanism is linked to the empirical interpretat...
Authors: Justus Contzen, Thorsten Dickhaus, Gerrit Lohmann
arXiv
We present a new approach to modeling the future development of extreme temperatures globally and on a long time-scale by using non-stationary generalized extreme value distributions in combination wi...
Authors: P. Murali Doraiswamy, Terry E. Goldberg, Min Qian, Alexandra R. Linares, Adaora Nwosu, Izael Nino, Jessica D'Antonio, Julia Phillips, Charlie Ndouli, Caroline Hellegers, Andrew M. Michael, Jeffrey R. Petrella, Howards Andrews, Joel Sneed, Davangere P. Devanand
arXiv
Digital cognitive tests offer several potential advantages over established paper-pencil tests but have not yet been fully evaluated for the clinical evaluation of mild cognitive impairment. The Neuro...
Authors: Michael Schuckers, Sandip Purnapatra, Kaniz Fatima, Daqing Hou, Stephanie Schuckers
arXiv
Biometric recognition is used across a variety of applications from cyber security to border security. Recent research has focused on ensuring biometric performance (false negatives and false positive...
Authors: Grace Guan, Mark Braverman
arXiv
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurers cannot engage in medical underwriting and thus face perverse incentives to engage in risk selection and discourage low-value patients from enrolling in th...
Authors: Ganesh Karapakula
arXiv
In recent years, the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF) has become a popular tool for conducting cost-benefit analysis; the MVPF relies on the ratio of willingness-to-pay for a policy divided by it...
Authors: François Hug, Simon Avrillon, Jaime Ibåñez, Dario Farina
arXiv
Understanding how movement is controlled by the central nervous system remains a major challenge, with ongoing debate about basic features underlying this control. In this review, we introduce a new c...
Authors: Taylor R. Brown
arXiv
For a Bayesian, real-time forecasting with the posterior predictive distribution can be challenging for a variety of time series models. First, estimating the parameters of a time series model can be...
Authors: Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui, Kieko Kochi, Toshihiko Kinoshita
arXiv
Brain function as measured by multichannel EEG recordings can be described to a high level of accuracy by microstates, characterized as a sequence of time intervals within which the sign invariant nor...
Authors: Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles
arXiv
For two decades, the formalism of quantum mechanics has been successfully used to describe human decision processes, situations of heuristic reasoning, and the contextuality of concepts and their comb...
Authors: Hisashi Noma
arXiv
The logistic regression analysis proposed by Schouten et al. (Stat Med. 1993;12:1733-1745) has been a standard method in current statistical analysis of case-cohort studies, and it enables effective e...
Authors: Hiroshi Nakahara, Kazuya Takeda, Keisuke Fujii
arXiv
Recent measurement technologies enable us to analyze baseball at higher levels. There are, however, still many unclear points around the pitching strategy. The two elements make it difficult to measur...
Authors: Zhanhong Cheng, Xudong Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Martin Trepanier, Lijun Sun
arXiv
Modeling the relationship between vehicle speed and density on the road is a fundamental problem in traffic flow theory. Recent research found that using the least-squares (LS) method to calibrate sin...
Authors: John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn
arXiv
"Banning the Box" refers to a policy campaign aimed at prohibiting employers from soliciting applicant information that could be used to statistically discriminate against categories of applicants (in...
Authors: Bledar A. Konomi, Emily L. Kang, Ayat Almomani, Jonathan Hobbs
arXiv
Remote sensing data products often include quality flags that inform users whether the associated observations are of good, acceptable or unreliable qualities. However, such information on data fideli...