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CSDA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Generalized theory of uncertainty (GTU) - principal concepts and ideas
Uncertainty is an attribute of information. The path-breaking work of Shannon has led to a universal acceptance of the thesis that information is statistical in nature. Concomitan...
Lotfi A. Zadeh
BMCBI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Robust joint analysis allowing for model uncertainty in two-stage genetic association studies
Background: The cost efficient two-stage design is often used in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in searching for genetic loci underlying the susceptibility for complex di...
Dongdong Pan, Qizhai Li, Ningning Jiang, Aiyi Liu,...
JCB
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Statistical Mechanical Models: Helix-Coil Theory and Peptide Helicity Prediction
Analysis of biopolymer sequences and structures generally adopts one of two approaches: use of detailed biophysical theoretical models of the system with experimentally-determined...
Scott C. Schmidler, Joseph E. Lucas, Terrence G. O...
WSC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing input parameter uncertainty for simulations
Parameters of statistical distributions that are input to simulations are typically not known with certainty. For existing systems, or variations on existing systems, they are oft...
Szu Hui Ng, Stephen E. Chick
TIT
2008
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State Estimation With Initial State Uncertainty
Abstract--The problem of state estimation with initial state uncertainty is approached from a statistical decision theory point of view. The initial state is regarded as determinis...
Yoav Levinbook, Tan F. Wong