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Atlas of Illinois Poverty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This Atlas makes available for the first time Illinois poverty data by legislative district. Elected officials now have the opportunity to understand how poverty impacts their own individual districts in three key ways: education rates, poverty rates ...

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Minimax rates and adaptivity in combining experimental and observational data

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating the causal effect of a treatment; however, they often have limited sample sizes and sometimes poor generalizability.
Chen Shuxiao, Li Sai, Zhang Bo, Ye Ting
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Robust forecasting of mortality and fertility rates: a functional data approach [PDF]

open access: yes
We propose a new method for forecasting age-specific mortality and fertility rates observed over time. Our approach allows for smooth functions of age, is robust for outlying years due to wars and epidemics, and provides a modelling framework that is ...
Md. Shahid Ullah, Rob J. Hyndman
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Filtering heart rates using data densities: The boxfilter R package

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution
Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest in long‐term heart rate records, especially from free‐living animals. Largely, this increase is because most of the metabolic activity of tissues is based on oxygen delivery by the heart. Therefore,
Thomas Ruf   +4 more
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Evaluating the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Web Survey Response Rates in the UK Millennium Cohort Study

open access: yesSurvey Research Methods
A major objective for longitudinal studies is retaining participants over time. The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is the largest on-going nationally representative study of young people in the UK (N = 18,818).
Charlotte Booth   +3 more
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An Adaptive Strategy for Active Learning with Smooth Decision Boundary

open access: yes, 2017
We present the first adaptive strategy for active learning in the setting of classification with smooth decision boundary. The problem of adaptivity (to unknown distributional parameters) has remained opened since the seminal work of Castro and Nowak ...
Carpentier, Alexandra   +2 more
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Data rates of SubTHz wireless telecommunication channels

open access: yesEPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
Bubnov G.M., Lesnov I.V., Vdovin V.F.
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