Authors: Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Janharpreet Singh, Lorna Wheaton, David Jenkins, Reynaldo Martina, Kimme Hyrich, Keith R. Abrams
arXiv
Objective: We aim to utilise real world data in evidence synthesis to optimise an evidence base for the effectiveness of biologic therapies in rheumatoid arthritis in order to allow for evidence on fi...
Authors: Marc W. Howard
arXiv
The idea that memory behavior relies on a gradually-changing internal state has a long history in mathematical psychology. This chapter traces this line of thought from statistical learning theory in...
Authors: Felipe Vaca-Ramírez, Tiago P. Peixoto
arXiv
We perform a systematic analysis of the quality of fit of the stochastic block model (SBM) for 275 empirical networks spanning a wide range of domains and orders of size magnitude. We employ posterior...
Authors: Somayajulu L. N. Dhulipala, Michael D. Shields, Promit Chakroborty, Wen Jiang, Benjamin W. Spencer, Jason D. Hales, Vincent M. Laboure, Zachary M. Prince, Chandrakanth Bolisetti, Yifeng Che
arXiv
Tristructural isotropic (TRISO)-coated particle fuel is a robust nuclear fuel and determining its reliability is critical for the success of advanced nuclear technologies. However, TRISO failure proba...
Authors: Yuyang Chen, Kaiming Bi, Chih-Hang J. Wu, David Ben-Arieh, Ashesh Sinha
arXiv
Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency, which is a major cause of death worldwide and the second highest cause of mortality in the United States. Researching the optimal control treatment or i...
Authors: Matilde Marcolli
arXiv
This paper discusses a simple and explicit toy-model example of the categorical Hopfield equations introduced in previous work of Manin and the author. These describe dynamical assignments of resource...
Authors: David H. Wolpert, Michael H. Price, Stefani A. Crabtree, Timothy A. Kohler, Jurgen Jost, James Evans, Peter F. Stadler, Hajime Shimao, Manfred D. Laubichler
arXiv
Historical processes manifest remarkable diversity. Nevertheless, scholars have long attempted to identify patterns and categorize historical actors and influences with some success. A stochastic proc...
Authors: Maja Linke, Michael Ramscar
arXiv
The intelligibility of speech relies on the ability of interlocutors to dynamically align their expectations about the rates at which informative changes in signals occur. Exactly how this is achieved...
Authors: Wentao Su, Guillaume Saint-Jacques
arXiv
We present a methodology to measure the gender representation for online product funnels. It is a part of the overall equity framework to better understand our products through funnel analysis. By lev...
Authors: Lukas Petrich, Georg Lohrmann, Fabio Martin, Albert Stoll, Volker Schmidt
arXiv
The site-specific management of weeds in grassland is often challenging because different weed control strategies have different trade-offs regarding the required resources and treatment efficiency. S...
Authors: Forough Fazeli-Asl, Michael Minyi Zhang, Lizhen Lin
arXiv
A classic inferential statistical problem is the goodness-of-fit (GOF) test. Such a test can be challenging when the hypothesized parametric model has an intractable likelihood and its distributional...
Authors: Priyanka deSouza, Susan Anenberg, Carrie Makarewicz, Manish Shirgaokar, Fabio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, John Durant, Patrick Kinney, Deb Niemeier
arXiv
While human mobility plays a crucial role in determining air pollution exposures and health risks, research to-date has assessed risks based solely on residential location. Here we leveraged a databas...
Authors: George Vassos, Klaus K. Holst, Pierre Pinson, Richard M. Lusby
arXiv
This study proposes a simulation framework of procurement operations in the container logistics industry that can support the development of dynamic procurement strategies. The idea is inspired by the...
Authors: Thomas R. Shultz, Ardavan S. Nobandegani, Zilong Wang
arXiv
We propose a relatively simple computational neural-network model of number comparison. Training on comparisons of the integers 1-9 enable the model to efficiently and accurately simulate a wide range...
Authors: Hamit Basgol, Inci Ayhan, Emre Ugur
arXiv
People segment complex, ever-changing and continuous experience into basic, stable and discrete spatio-temporal experience units, called events. Event segmentation literature investigates the mechanis...