Authors: Hyunseung Kang, Youjin Lee, T. Tony Cai, Dylan S. Small
arXiv
Instrumental variables have been widely used to estimate the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome. Existing confidence intervals for causal effects based on instrumental variables assume that al...
Authors: Jannes Jegminat, Jean-Pascal Pfister
arXiv
Most normative models in computational neuroscience describe the task of learning as the optimisation of a cost function with respect to a set of parameters. However, learning as optimisation fails to...
Authors: Yun Li, Irina Bondarenko, Michael R. Elliott, Timothy P. Hofer, Jeremy M. G. Taylor
arXiv
With medical tests becoming increasingly available, concerns about over-testing and over-treatment dramatically increase. Hence, it is important to understand the influence of testing on treatment sel...
Authors: Lucas Y. Tian, Kevin Ellis, Marta Kryven, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
arXiv
Humans flexibly solve new problems that differ qualitatively from those they were trained on. This ability to generalize is supported by learned concepts that capture structure common across different...
Authors: Qianlong Wen, Ruoqi Liu, Ping Zhang
arXiv
Drug repurposing has attracted increasing attention from both the pharmaceutical industry and the research community. Many existing computational drug repurposing methods rely on preclinical data (e.g...
Authors: Guanyu Hu, Junxian Geng
arXiv
We propose a Bayesian Heterogeneity Learning approach for Susceptible-Infected-Removal-Susceptible (SIRS) model that allows underlying clustering patterns for transmission rate, recovery rate, and los...
Authors: Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Lorenzo Fernández Maimó, Michael Taynnan Barros, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Gregorio Martínez Pérez
arXiv
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) arose as systems that merge computing systems with the human brain to facilitate recording, stimulation, and inhibition of neural activity. Over the years, the developm...
Authors: Abhishek Srivastava, Anurag Mishra, Trusha Jayant Parekh, Sampreeti Jena
arXiv
COVID-19, a viral respiratory pandemic, has rapidly spread throughout the globe. Large scale and rapid testing of the population is required to contain the disease, but such testing is prohibitive in...
Authors: Linyi Zou, Hui Guo, Carlo Berzuini
arXiv
Background: Mendelian randomization (MR) has been widely applied to causal inference in medical research. It uses genetic variants as instrumental variables (IVs) to investigate putative causal relati...
Authors: Tomislav Stankovski
arXiv
The interactions play one of the central roles in the brain mediating various processes and functions. They are particularly important for the brain as a complex system that has many different functio...
Authors: Feng Wang, Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei, Zhen Zhong, Tao Tang, Jianjun Shi
arXiv
Heterogeneous but complementary sources of data provide an unprecedented opportunity for developing accurate statistical models of systems. Although the existing methods have shown promising results,...
Authors: Tiandong Wang, Sidney I. Resnick
arXiv
When modeling a directed social network, one choice is to use the traditional preferential attachment model, which generates power-law tail distributions. In a traditional directed preferential attach...
Authors: Christian Capezza, Fabio Centofanti, Antonio Lepore, Biagio Palumbo
arXiv
Quality assessment of resistance spot welding (RSW) joints of metal sheets in the automotive industry is typically based on costly and lengthy off-line tests that are unfeasible on the full production...
Authors: Milad Haghani, Michiel C. J. Bliemer, Bilal Farooq, Inhi Kim, Zhibin Li, Cheol Oh, Zahra Shahhoseini, Hamish MacDougall
arXiv
Applications of neuroimaging methods have substantially contributed to the scientific understanding of human factors during driving by providing a deeper insight into the neuro-cognitive aspects of dr...
Authors: Wenyu Zhang, Maryclare Griffin, David S. Matteson
arXiv
Measurements of many biological processes are characterized by an initial trend period followed by an equilibrium period. Scientists may wish to quantify features of the two periods, as well as the ti...