In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...
Background: It is hypothesized that common, complex diseases may be due to complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors, which are difficult to detect in high-di...
Stacey J. Winham, Andrew J. Slater, Alison A. Mots...
Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...
Statistical measures coming from information theory represent interesting bases for image and video processing tasks such as image retrieval and video object tracking. For example...
Background: The small sample sizes often used for microarray experiments result in poor estimates of variance if each gene is considered independently. Yet accurately estimating v...
Maureen A. Sartor, Craig R. Tomlinson, Scott C. We...