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Abstract: Inferring the causal structure that links n observables is usually based upon detecting statistical dependences and choosing simple graphs that make the joint measure Markovian. Here we ...

Sias founder David Gerald says implied discount to Advanced Systems Automation’s offer has ‘widened materially’ to in excess of 67% [SINGAPORE] The Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or ...

In repeated interactions, people tend to cooperate conditionally. They are influenced by whether others cooperate, and react accordingly. Direct reciprocity is based on repeated interactions between ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

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Ocean waves and the wind in the lower marine atmospheric boundary layer play crucial roles in the air-sea interactions and are both vital for the control of the weather and of the climate system. One ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. As a supervised machine learning algorithm, conditional random fields are mainly used ...

Objective To measure sex differences in lifespan based on the probability of males to outlive females. Design International comparison of national and regional sex-specific life tables from the Human ...