Search results
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Title
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Best probability density function for random sampled data
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J.
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Probabilities
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Description
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The maximum entropy method is a theoretically sound approach to construct an analytical form for the probability density function (pdf) given a sample of random events. In practice, numerical methods employed to determine the appropriate Lagrange ...
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Title
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Beyond the PCA : a comprehensive review of dimension reduction techniques
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Author
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Kenjale, Tanmay
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Dimension reduction (Statistics), Regression analysis
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Description
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Regression analysis is a key tool in modeling the relationship between predictor variables and the conditional mean of the response variable. However, as the number of predictors increases, existing estimation methods become challenging. Dimension...
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CUSTOMER ATTRITION MODELING AND FORECASTING
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Author
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Xu, Zehan
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Customer relationship management has shown its critical role in the success of a company in today’s increasingly competitive service industry. While modern machine learning techniques are widely adopted due to their advantages in working with exte...
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Title
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Changes in Lysozyme flexibility upon mutation are frequent, large and long-ranged
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Verma, Deeptak, Livesay, Dennis R.
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Statistics
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Description
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We investigate changes in human c-type lysozyme flexibility upon mutation via a Distance Constraint Model, which gives a statistical mechanical treatment of network rigidity. Specifically, two dynamical metrics are tracked. Changes in flexibility ...
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Clean Power Plan, Dirty Politics: An Examination of State Reactions to Climate Regulation
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Author
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Withrow, Matthew
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Power resources
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Description
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While carbon emissions are widely believed to be contributing to climate change, the U.S. has done little to limit the massive amounts of carbon being introduced into the atmosphere by electricity producing power plants. The Clean Power Plan (CPP)...
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Title
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Combatting Ceiling Effects: Modeling High-Ability Student Growth Using Multilevel Tobit Regression
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Author
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Hujar, Julia
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational tests and measurements, Gifted children--Education, Statistics
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Description
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Pressures associated with accountability testing have resulted in a narrowing of both the curriculum and pedagogy that does not meet the needs of high ability learners. This study proposed that either a different measurement (an above-level comput...
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Title
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Dynamic Modeling of Incomplete Event History Data
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Author
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Heng, Fei
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Event history analysis has important applications in many fields, such as medicine, engineering, econometrics, actuarial science, and social studies. We usually encounter missing data problems in the modeling of event history data. One typical pro...
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Evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulation in bacteria
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Author
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Li, Shan
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Although transcription is one of the most important biological functions of cells, our understanding of its regulation is still limited. In this dissertation, we have studied the transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes in three aspects. First, w...
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Title
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Isomorphism in Measures of Team Constructs
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Author
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Clayton, Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Organizational behavior
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Description
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Work teams are an ever-growing structure as organizations seek to become more agile and achieve better outcomes (Bersin, 2016; Deloitte, 2018). Therefore, organizational researchers seek to accurately recognize and understand various aspects of te...
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Title
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Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Data mining, Statistics
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Description
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Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...
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Title
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High throughput nonparametric probability density estimation
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Probabilities
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Description
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In high throughput applications, such as those found in bioinformatics and finance, it is important to determine accurate probability distribution functions despite only minimal information about data characteristics, and without using human subje...
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Title
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In search of a predictive model for aflatoxin insurance claims based on temperature data
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Author
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German-Jimenez, Fausto, Terejanu, Gabriel
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Machine learning, Statistics, Agriculture
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Description
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Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic product of mold that affects thousands of corn-producing farms in the United States every year, so being able to predict when a county will have compromising aflatoxin levels could be beneficial for insurance companies....
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Title
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Independent Screening for Nonparametric Additive Cox Model
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Author
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Yu, Sha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics
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Description
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Survival data with ultrahigh dimensional covariates are increasingly common recently due to the rapid development in technologies. It is challenging to model them using survival models in order to understand the association between covariate infor...
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Title
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Inequalities in Education: A Closer Focus on School Discipline
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Author
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Furukawa, Taylor
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Statistics, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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Disproportionalities in school discipline have become a popular research topic in recent decades, particularly at the school-, district-, and state-level. While there are a handful of reports using nationally representative data, this study provid...