Authors: Daniel Nevo, Judith J. Lok, Donna Spiegelman
arXiv
In learn-as-you-go (LAGO) adaptive studies, the intervention is a complex package consisting of multiple components, and is adapted in stages during the study based on past outcome data. This design f...
Authors: Donghui Yan, Gary E. Davis
arXiv
We elaborate on an alternative representation of conditional probability to the usual tree diagram. We term the representation `turtleback diagram' for its resemblance to the pattern on turtle shells....
Authors: Behram Wali, Asad Khattak, Aemal Khattak
arXiv
The main objective of this study is to quantify how different policy-sensitive factors are associated with risk of motorcycle injury crashes, while controlling for rider-specific, psycho-physiological...
Authors: Natalia Zuniga-Garcia, Mauricio Tec, James G. Scott, Natalia Ruiz-Juri, Randy B. Machemehl
arXiv
This paper considers the problem of measuring spatial and temporal variation in driver productivity on ride-sourcing trips. This variation is especially important from a driver's perspective: if a pla...
Authors: Tavpritesh Sethi, Anant Mittal, Shubham Maheshwari, Samarth Chugh
arXiv
Life-expectancy is a complex outcome driven by genetic, socio-demographic, environmental and geographic factors. Increasing socio-economic and health disparities in the United States are propagating t...
Authors: Alborz Rezazadeh Sereshkeh, Rozhin Yousefi, Andrew T Wong, Tom Chau
arXiv
Most brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) require that users perform mental tasks such as motor imagery, mental arithmetic, or music imagery to conve...
Authors: Hongkuan Zhou, Yuzhou Li, Tao Jiang
arXiv
An accurate sea clutter distribution is crucial for decision region determination when detecting sea-surface floating targets. However, traditional parametric models possibly have a considerable gap t...
Authors: Xiaoliang Sheng, Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Tonglin Xu, Ning Yuan, Daoqiang Zhang
arXiv
Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) aims to explore similarities between neural activities of different stimuli. Classical RSA techniques employ the inverse of the covariance matrix to explore...
Authors: Bart Aalbers, Jan Van Haaren
arXiv
Over the last few decades, the player recruitment process in professional football has evolved into a multi-billion industry and has thus become of vital importance. To gain insights into the general...
Authors: A. A. Akopian
arXiv
Review is devoted to estimators (introduced in astronomy by famous astronomer Ambartsumian and his followers) that are used to estimating the unknown number of flare stars and other randomly flashing...
Authors: Ahmed Kamoun, Patrick Maillé, Bruno Tuffin
arXiv
Different search engines provide different outputs for the same keyword. This may be due to different definitions of relevance, and/or to different knowledge/anticipation of users' preferences, but ra...
Authors: Lee Susman, Naama Brenner, Omri Barak
arXiv
What is the physiological basis of long-term memory? The prevailing view in neuroscience attributes changes in synaptic efficacy to memory acquisition. This view implies that stable memories correspon...
Authors: Pantelis Z. Hadjipantelis, Kyunghee Han, Jane-Ling Wang, Seungmi Yang, Richard M. Martin, Michael S. Kramer, Emily Oken, Hans-Georg Müller
arXiv
Physical growth traits can be naturally represented by continuous functions. In a large dataset of infancy growth patterns, we develop a practical approach to infer statistical associations between gr...
Authors: Jessica Hwang, Paulo Orenstein, Judah Cohen, Karl Pfeiffer, Lester Mackey
arXiv
Water managers in the western United States (U.S.) rely on longterm forecasts of temperature and precipitation to prepare for droughts and other wet weather extremes. To improve the accuracy of these...
Authors: Malay Bhattacharyya, Siva Rajesh Kasa
arXiv
Correlations among stock returns during volatile markets differ substantially compared to those from quieter markets. During times of financial crisis, it has been observed that traditional dependency...