📚 PsyDin Research Database

← PsyDin Home
Showing 15 of 20167 papers

Comparison of Model Output Statistics and Neural Networks to Postprocess Wind Gusts

Authors: Cristina Primo, Benedikt Schulz, Sebastian Lerch, Reinhold Hess

arXiv

Wind gust prediction plays an important role in warning strategies of national meteorological services due to the high impact of its extreme values. However, forecasting wind gusts is challenging beca...

mental health psychology open access

A novel changepoint detection algorithm

Authors: Allen B. Downey

arXiv

We propose an algorithm for simultaneously detecting and locating changepoints in a time series, and a framework for predicting the distribution of the next point in the series. The kernel of the al...

mental health psychology open access

Respondent-Driven Sampling: An Assessment of Current Methodology

Authors: Krista J. Gile, Mark S. Handcock

arXiv

Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) employs a variant of a link-tracing network sampling strategy to collect data from hard-to-reach populations. By tracing the links in the underlying social network,...

mental health psychology open access

Multivariate Statistical Process Control Charts and the Problem of Interpretation: A Short Overview and Some Applications in Industry

Authors: S. Bersimis, J. Panaretos, S. Psarakis

arXiv

Woodall and Montgomery [35] in a discussion paper, state that multivariate process control is one of the most rapidly developing sections of statistical process control. Nowadays, in industry, there...

mental health psychology open access

Special section on statistics in the atmospheric sciences

Authors: Montserrat Fuentes, Peter Guttorp, Michael L. Stein

arXiv

With the possible exception of gambling, meteorology, particularly precipitation forecasting, may be the area with which the general public is most familiar with probabilistic assessments of uncerta...

mental health psychology open access

Infinitesimally Robust Estimation in General Smoothly Parametrized Models

Authors: Matthias Kohl, Peter Ruckdeschel, Helmut Rieder

arXiv

We describe the shrinking neighborhood approach of Robust Statistics, which applies to general smoothly parametrized models, especially, exponential families. Equal generality is achieved by object...

mental health psychology open access

Sparse Causal Discovery in Multivariate Time Series

Authors: Stefan Haufe, Guido Nolte, Klaus-Robert Mueller, Nicole Kraemer

arXiv

Our goal is to estimate causal interactions in multivariate time series. Using vector autoregressive (VAR) models, these can be defined based on non-vanishing coefficients belonging to respective ti...

mental health psychology open access

A two-stage algorithm for extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks

Authors: Paul B. Slater

arXiv

The central problem of concern to Serrano, Boguna and Vespignani ("Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks", Proc Natl Acad Sci 106:6483-6488 [2009]) can be effectively and e...

mental health psychology open access

Statistical Methods for Determining Optimal Rifle Cartridge Dimensions

Authors: Steven Matthew Anderson, Shahar Boneh, Nels Grevstad

arXiv

We have designed and carried out a statistical study to determine the optimal cartridge dimensions for a Savage 10FLP law enforcement grade rifle. Optimal performance is defined as minimal group dia...

mental health psychology open access

An updated comparison of model ensemble and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

Authors: Stephen McIntyre, Ross McKitrick

arXiv

A debate exists over whether tropical troposphere temperature trends in climate models are inconsistent with observations (Karl et al. 2006, IPCC (2007), Douglass et al 2007, Santer et al 2008). Mos...

mental health psychology open access

Needles in the Haystack: Identifying Individuals Present in Pooled Genomic Data

Authors: Rosemary Braun, William Rowe, Carl Schaefer, Jinghui Zhang, Kenneth Buetow

arXiv

Recent publications have described and applied a novel metric that quantifies the genetic distance of an individual with respect to two population samples, and have suggested that the metric makes i...

mental health psychology open access

Gene ranking and biomarker discovery under correlation

Authors: Verena Zuber, Korbinian Strimmer

arXiv

Biomarker discovery and gene ranking is a standard task in genomic high throughput analysis. Typically, the ordering of markers is based on a stabilized variant of the t-score, such as the moderated...

mental health psychology open access

Degree distributions in mesoscopic and macroscopic functional brain networks

Authors: Satoru Hayasaka, Paul J. Laurienti

arXiv

We investigated the degree distribution of brain networks extracted from functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human brain. In particular, the distributions are compared between macroscopic b...

mental health psychology open access

Age and Winning Professional Golf Tournaments

Authors: Gizachew Tiruneh

arXiv

Most professional golfers and analysts think that winning on the PGA Tour peaks when golfers are in their thirties. Rather than relying on educated guesses, we can actually use available statistical...

mental health psychology open access

Quantum calcium-ion interactions with EEG

Authors: Lester Ingber

arXiv

Previous papers have developed a statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions (SMNI) fit to short-term memory and EEG data. Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) has been developed to perform fits t...

mental health psychology open access