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A simple and efficient method for sampling mixture models based on Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes

open access: yesComputational Statistics
Abstract We introduce a simple and efficient sampling strategy for the Dirichlet process mixture model (DPM) and its two-parameter extension, the Poisson-Dirichlet process mixture model, also known as the Pitman-Yor process mixture model (PYM).
Mame Diarra Fall, Éric Barat
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Public sector performance auditing: Emergence, purpose and meaning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extant Anglo-American literature on 'performance auditing for the public sector', in order to identify the socio-economic and political themes that influenced the emergence of public sector performance ...
Lowe, Alan   +2 more
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Exploring Consumer Valuation and Preference Heterogeneity for Functional Foods Using a Choice Experiment: A Case Study of Tomato Juice Containing Soy in Ohio [PDF]

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A discrete choice experiment is applied to examine consumer valuation of a new generation of functional foods. Data were collected from 1,704 households in Ohio through a mail survey.
Hooker, Neal H., Teratanavat, Ratapol P.
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Distribution-Free Tests for Two-Sample Location Problems Based on Subsamples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Nonparametric tests for location problems have received much attention in the literature. Many nonparametric tests have been proposed for one, two and several samples location problems.
Deepa R. Acharya, ., Pandit, P.V.
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Irrigated agriculture, water pricing and water savings in the Lower Jordan River Basin (in Jordan) [PDF]

open access: yes
Farming systems / Irrigated farming / Water conservation / Groundwater / Water policy / Water rates / Water costs / Pricing / Cost recovery / Economic impact / Jordan / Lower Jordan River Basin / Jordan Valley / Amman-Zarqa Basin / Yarmouk ...
Hassan, Yousef   +2 more
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Monte Carlo Techniques in Studying Robust Estimators [PDF]

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Recent work on robust estimation has led to many procedures, which are easy to formulate and straightforward to program but difficult to study analytically.
David C. Hoaglin
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Dissecting EXP2 sequence requirements for protein export in malaria parasites. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Cell Infect Microbiol, 2023
Pitman EL   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sampling and Inference for Beta Neutral-to-the-Left Models of Sparse Networks

open access: yes, 2018
Empirical evidence suggests that heavy-tailed degree distributions occurring in many real networks are well-approximated by power laws with exponents $\eta$ that may take values either less than and greater than two.
Bloem-Reddy, Benjamin   +3 more
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