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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...