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SUBSIDIZING AGRICULTURAL RISKS: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2016
The paper analyzed the issue of subsidizing agricultural risks in Moldova. The data were collected from the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova, the Agency for Payments and Intervention for Agriculture, National Commission of ...
Maria COJOCARU, Iulia CAPRIAN
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Cluster variation method in statistical physics and probabilistic graphical models [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2005
36 pages, 17 ...
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Gaussian Approximation of Collective Graphical Models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Collective Graphical Model (CGM) models a population of independent and identically distributed individuals when only collective statistics (i.e., counts of individuals) are observed.
Dietterich, Thomas G.   +2 more
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Penalized Estimation of Directed Acyclic Graphs From Discrete Data

open access: yes, 2018
Bayesian networks, with structure given by a directed acyclic graph (DAG), are a popular class of graphical models. However, learning Bayesian networks from discrete or categorical data is particularly challenging, due to the large parameter space and ...
Fu, Fei, Gu, Jiaying, Zhou, Qing
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Innovative memory-type calibration estimators for better survey accuracy in stratified sampling

open access: yesScientific Reports
Calibration methods play a vital role in improving the accuracy of parameter estimates by effectively integrating information from various data sources.
Kanwal Shafiq Minhas   +5 more
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A Generic Path Algorithm for Regularized Statistical Estimation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Regularization is widely used in statistics and machine learning to prevent overfitting and gear solution towards prior information. In general, a regularized estimation problem minimizes the sum of a loss function and a penalty term. The penalty term is
Wu, Yichao, Zhou, Hua
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Medical graduate views on statistical learning needs for clinical practice: a comprehensive survey

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2019
Background This paper seeks to contribute to a reputable evidence base for required competencies across different topics in statistics and probability (statistical topics) in preparing medical graduates for clinical practice.
Margaret MacDougall   +2 more
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Conjugate Bayes for probit regression via unified skew-normal distributions

open access: yes, 2019
Regression models for dichotomous data are ubiquitous in statistics. Besides being useful for inference on binary responses, these methods serve also as building blocks in more complex formulations, such as density regression, nonparametric ...
Durante, Daniele
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Prediction of neonatal survival among Pacific Islander preterm births in the US.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
ObjectivePredicting neonatal survival is essential for targeting interventions to reduce neonatal mortality. Pacific Islanders have been underrepresented in existing prediction tools and have unique, maternal obesity-related risk factors for both preterm
Bohao Wu   +3 more
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Quantifying, displaying and accounting for heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of RCTs using standard and generalised Q statistics

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2011
Background Clinical researchers have often preferred to use a fixed effects model for the primary interpretation of a meta-analysis. Heterogeneity is usually assessed via the well known Q and I2 statistics, along with the random effects estimate they ...
Tierney Jayne F   +3 more
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