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Composite Likelihoods with Bounded Weights in Extrapolation of Data

Authors: Margaret Gamalo, Yoonji Kim, Fan Zhang, Junjing Lin

arXiv

Among many efforts to facilitate timely access to safe and effective medicines to children, increased attention has been given to extrapolation. Loosely, it is the leveraging of conclusions or availab...

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A New Causal Decomposition Paradigm towards Health Equity

Authors: Xinwei Sun, Xiangyu Zheng, Jim Weinstein

arXiv

Causal decomposition has provided a powerful tool to analyze health disparity problems, by assessing the proportion of disparity caused by each mediator. However, most of these methods lack \emph{poli...

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Neural Correlates of Face Familiarity Perception

Authors: Evan Ehrenberg, Kleovoulos Leo Tsourides, Hossein Nejati, Ngai-Man Cheung, Pawan Sinha

arXiv

In the domain of face recognition, there exists a puzzling timing discrepancy between results from macaque neurophysiology on the one hand and human electrophysiology on the other. Single unit recordi...

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Variable selection in sparse multivariate GLARMA models: Application to germination control by environment

Authors: M. Gomtsyan, C. Lévy-Leduc, S. Ouadah, L. Sansonnet, C. Bailly, L. Rajjou

arXiv

We propose a novel and efficient iterative two-stage variable selection approach for multivariate sparse GLARMA models, which can be used for modelling multivariate discrete-valued time series. Our ap...

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The Impact of Attending a Remedial Support Program on Syrian Children's Reading Skills: Using BART for Causal Inference

Authors: Mayari Montes de Oca, Jennifer Hill, Lawrence Aber, Carly Tubbs Dolan, Kalina Gjicali

arXiv

This article estimates, for a sample of 1,777 Syrian refugee children, the impact on basic reading assessments of attending a remedial support program in Lebanon that was infused with social and emoti...

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Generative Models for Periodicity Detection in Noisy Signals

Authors: Ezekiel Barnett, Olga Kaiser, Jonathan Masci, Ernst Wit, Stephany Fulda

arXiv

We introduce a new periodicity detection algorithm for binary time series of event onsets, the Gaussian Mixture Periodicity Detection Algorithm (GMPDA). The algorithm approaches the periodicity detect...

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Geometrically adapted Langevin dynamics for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations

Authors: Mariya Mamajiwala, Debasish Roy, Serge Guillas

arXiv

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is one of the most powerful methods to sample from a given probability distribution, of which the Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA) is a variant wherein the...

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The R Package HCV for Hierarchical Clustering from Vertex-links

Authors: ShengLi Tzeng, Hao-Yun Hsu

arXiv

The HCV package implements the hierarchical clustering for spatial data. It requires clustering results not only homogeneous in non-geographical features among samples but also geographically close to...

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A Guideline for the Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data in Immunology

Authors: Jinkyung Yoo, Zequn Sun, Michael Greenacre, Qin Ma, Dongjun Chung, Young Min Kim

arXiv

The study of immune cellular composition has been of great scientific interest in immunology because of the generation of multiple large-scale data. From the statistical point of view, such immune cel...

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Skyline variations allow estimating distance to trees on landscape photos using semantic segmentation

Authors: Laura Martinez-Sanchez, Daniele Borio, Raphaël d'Andrimont, Marijn van der Velde

arXiv

Approximate distance estimation can be used to determine fundamental landscape properties including complexity and openness. We show that variations in the skyline of landscape photos can be used to e...

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The M6 forecasting competition: Bridging the gap between forecasting and investment decisions

Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Evangelos Spiliotis, Ross Hollyman, Fotios Petropoulos, Norman Swanson, Anil Gaba

arXiv

The M6 forecasting competition, the sixth in the Makridakis' competition sequence, is focused on financial forecasting. A key objective of the M6 competition was to contribute to the debate surroundin...

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Multilevel Matrix Factor Model

Authors: Yuteng Zhang, Yongchang Hui, Junrong Song, Shurong Zheng

arXiv

Large-scale matrix data has been widely discovered and continuously studied in various fields recently. Considering the multi-level factor structure and utilizing the matrix structure, we propose a mu...

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The origins of unpredictability in life trajectory prediction tasks

Authors: Ian Lundberg, Rachel Brown-Weinstock, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Sarah Pachman, Timothy J. Nelson, Vicki Yang, Kathryn Edin, Matthew J. Salganik

arXiv

Why are life trajectories difficult to predict? We investigated this question through in-depth qualitative interviews with 40 families sampled from a multi-decade longitudinal study. Our sampling and...

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Metacognitive threshold: a computational account

Authors: Brendan Conway-Smith, Robert L. West

arXiv

This paper will explore ways of computationally accounting for the metacognitive threshold -- the minimum amount of stimulus needed for a mental state to be perceived -- and discuss potential cognitiv...

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Context-aware feature attribution through argumentation

Authors: Jinfeng Zhong, Elsa Negre

arXiv

Feature attribution is a fundamental task in both machine learning and data analysis, which involves determining the contribution of individual features or variables to a model's output. This process...

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