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Bias (statistics)

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Euclid: The reduced shear approximation and magnification bias for Stage IV cosmic shear experiments

Georges Meylan, Jean-Luc Starck, Yi Wang, Richard Massey

Context. Stage IV weak lensing experiments will offer more than an order of magnitude leap in precision. We must therefore ensure that our analyses remain accurate in this new era. Accordingly, previously ignored systematic effects must be addressed.Aims. ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Enhancing discrete choice models with representation learning

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin

In discrete choice modeling (DCM), model misspecifications may lead to limited predictability and biased parameter estimates. In this paper, we propose a new approach for estimating choice models in which we divide the systematic part of the utility specif ...

2020

Tackling Peer-to-Peer Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

Boi Faltings, Naman Goel, Maxime Rutagarama

Sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb and Uber face a major challenge in the form of peer-to-peer discrimination based on sensitive personal attributes such as race and gender. As shown by a recent study under controlled settings, reputation systems can ...

ACM2020

Controlling the bias error of Fokker- Planck methods for rarefied gas dynamics simulations

Direct simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) is the most established method for rarefied gas flow simulations. It is valid from continuum to near vacuum, but in cases involving small Knudsen numbers (Kn), it suffers from high computational cost. The Fokker-Planck ...

2019

Estimation of streamflow recession parameters: New insights from an analytic streamflow distribution model

Andrea Rinaldo, Bettina Schaefli, Ana Clara Pereira Barbosa Santos

Streamflow recession analysis characterizes the storage-outflow relationship in catchments. This relationship, which typically follows a power law, summarizes all catchment-scale subsurface hydrological processes and has long been known to be a key descrip ...

2019

Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, administered by the World Trade Organization, ensures the smooth functioning of the international patent system. It promises among other things that local and foreign firms are treated in ...

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS2019

Comparative analysis of transmittance measurement geometries and apparatus

Sabine Süsstrunk, Marjan Shahpaski

The accurate measurement of reflectance and transmittance properties of materials is essential in the printing and display industries in order to ensure precise color reproduction. In comparison with reflectance measurement, where the impact of different g ...

2019

Transforming cumulative hazard estimates

Mats Julius Stensrud, Pal Christie Ryalen

Time-to-event outcomes are often evaluated on the hazard scale, but interpreting hazards may be difficult. Recently in the causal inference literature concerns have been raised that hazards actually have a built-in selection bias that prevents simple causa ...

2018

Brain Perfusion Measurements Using Multidelay Arterial Spin-Labeling Are Systematically Biased by the Number of Delays

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Nicolas Gninenko, Merel Margaretha van der Thiel

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Multidelay arterial spin-labeling is a promising emerging method in clinical practice. The effect of imaging parameters in multidelay arterial spin-labeling on estimated cerebral blood flow measurements remains unknown. We directly c ...

AMER SOC NEURORADIOLOGY2018

Exploring Selection Bias by Causal Frailty Models

Mats Julius Stensrud

Counter-intuitive associations appear frequently in epidemiology, and these results are often debated. In particular, several scenarios are characterized by a general risk factor that appears protective in particular subpopulations, for example, individual ...

2017

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