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David L. Banks

David L. Banks

Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
david.banks@duke.edu
Box 90251, Dept. of Stat. Sci., Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0251
210A Old Chemistry Building, Duke University, Durham, NC

Selected Publications

A BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO REPEATED BAYESIAN SECURITY GAMES

Journal Article Annals of Applied Statistics · March 1, 2024 The prevalence of security threats to organizational defense demands models that support real-world policymaking. Security games are a potent tool in this regard; however, although canonical models effectively allocate limited resources, they generally do ... Full text Cite

Recommender Systems: A Review

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · January 1, 2024 Recommender systems are the engine of online advertising. Not only do they suggest movies, music, or romantic partners, but they also are used to select which advertisements to show to users. This paper reviews the basics of recommender system methodology ... Full text Cite

C. R. Rao (1920-2023).

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · November 2023 Pioneering statistician and father of information geometry. ... Full text Cite

Discussion of “Some statistical challenges in automated driving systems”

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · September 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Foreword to the special issue on “Statistics of the Autonomous Vehicles”

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · September 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Decision support issues in automated driving systems

Journal Article International Transactions in Operational Research · May 1, 2023 Machine learning and computational processing have advanced such that automated driving systems (ADSs) are no longer a distant reality. Many automobile manufacturers have developed prototypes; however, there exist numerous decision support issues requiring ... Full text Cite

Cluster analysis: A modern statistical review

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics · May 1, 2023 Cluster analysis is a big, sprawling field. This review paper cannot hope to fully survey the territory. Instead, it focuses on hierarchical agglomerative clustering, k-means clustering, mixture models, and then several related topics of which any cluster ... Full text Cite

Multipolar Security Cooperation Planning: A Multiobjective, Adversarial-Risk-Analysis Approach

Journal Article Decision Analysis · March 1, 2023 In an increasingly competitive environment, defense organizations are met with more difficult decisions than in years past. This problem is especially apparent in security cooperation, that is, defense diplomacy, conducted by the United States. Both the Un ... Full text Cite

Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians.

Journal Article Psychoradiology · January 2023 BackgroundIt has been postulated that musicianship can lead to enhanced brain and cognitive reserve, but the neural mechanisms of this effect have been poorly understood. Lifelong professional musicianship in conjunction with novel brain imaging t ... Full text Cite

Defense and security planning under resource uncertainty and multi-period commitments

Journal Article Naval Research Logistics · October 1, 2022 The public sector is characterized by hierarchical and interdependent organizations. For defense and security applications in particular, a higher authority is generally responsible for allocating resources among subordinate organizations. These subordinat ... Full text Cite

Uncommon Knowledge in Multiparty Auctions

Journal Article Decision Analysis · September 1, 2022 The pure strategy Nash equilibrium (PSNE) solution to multiparty auctions makes the strong but unrealistic assumption that all participants share the same beliefs about the type distributions of the others, and that all know that this information is mutual ... Full text Cite

Machine learning OCT predictors of progression from intermediate age-related macular degeneration to geographic atrophy and vision loss.

Journal Article Ophthalmol Sci · June 2022 OBJECTIVE: To describe optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) features, age, gender, and systemic variables that may be used in machine/deep learning studies to identify high-risk patient subpopulations with high risk of progression to geographic atrophy (G ... Full text Link to item Cite

Directional mean curvature for textured image demixing

Journal Article Applied Mathematical Modelling · February 1, 2022 Approximation theory plays an important role in image processing, especially image deconvolution and decomposition. For piecewise smooth images, there are many methods that have been developed over the past thirty years. The goal of this study is to devise ... Full text Cite

Adversarial risk analysis: An overview

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics · January 1, 2022 Adversarial risk analysis (ARA) is a relatively new area of research that informs decision-making when facing intelligent opponents and uncertain outcomes. It is a decision-theoretic alternative to game theory. ARA enables an analyst to express her Bayesia ... Full text Cite

Optimizing the JSM Program

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · January 1, 2022 Sometimes the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is frustrating to attend, because multiple sessions on the same topic are scheduled at the same time. This article uses seeded latent Dirichlet allocation and a scheduling optimization algorithm to very signif ... Full text Cite

A Statistician Teaches Deep Learning

Journal Article Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice · June 1, 2021 Deep learning (DL) has gained much attention and become increasingly popular in modern data science. Computer scientists led the way in developing deep learning techniques, so the ideas and perspectives can seem alien to statisticians. Nonetheless, it is i ... Full text Cite

Bayesian metrology in metabolomics

Journal Article Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems · January 15, 2021 Metabolomics is a branch of bioinformatics that uses mass spectrometry measurements on metabolite abundance in tissue samples for scientific and medical purposes. Although the basic technology is similar to that used in proteomics, the statistical analysis ... Full text Cite

Effects of Lifelong Musicianship on White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Brain Reserve.

Journal Article Brain Sci · January 6, 2021 There is a significant body of research that has identified specific, high-end cognitive demand activities and lifestyles that may play a role in building cognitive brain reserve, including volume changes in gray matter and white matter, increased structur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Statistical Challenges in Agent-Based Modeling

Journal Article American Statistician · January 1, 2021 Agent-based models (ABMs) are popular in many research communities, but few statisticians have contributed to their theoretical development. They are models like any other models we study, but in general, we are still learning how to fit ABMs to data and h ... Full text Cite

Adversarial Risk Analysis as a Decomposition Method for Structured Expert Judgement Modelling

Chapter · January 1, 2021 We argue that adversarial risk analysis may be incorporated into the structured expert judgement modelling toolkit for cases in which we need to forecast the actions of competitors based on expert knowledge. This is relevant in areas such as cybersecurity, ... Full text Cite

Numerical Solution of Asymmetric Auctions

Journal Article Decision Analysis · January 1, 2021 We propose the backward indifference derivation (BID) algorithm, a new method to numerically approximate the pure strategy Nash equilibrium (PSNE) bidding functions in asymmetric first-price auctions. The BID algorithm constructs a sequence of finite-actio ... Full text Cite

Leo Breiman's Challenge: A Retrospective

Journal Article Observational Studies · January 1, 2021 Breiman led the way in thinking differently about statistics. Many of his iconoclastic ideas have become standard in the data science sphere. This discussion argues for some rebalancing, while gratefully acknowledging his achievements. ... Full text Cite

Discussion of “Machine learning applications in non-life insurance”

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · July 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Bayesian dynamic modeling and monitoring of network flows

Journal Article Network Science · September 1, 2019 In the context of a motivating study of dynamic network flow data on a large-scale e-commerce website, we develop Bayesian models for online/sequential analysis for monitoring and adapting to changes reflected in node-node traffic. For large-scale networks ... Full text Cite

Bayesian analysis of dynamic linear topic models

Journal Article Bayesian Analysis · January 1, 2019 Discovering temporal evolution of themes from a time-stamped collection of text poses a challenging statistical learning problem. Dynamic topic models offer a probabilistic modeling framework to decompose a corpus of text documents into "topics", i.e., pro ... Full text Cite

Patterns of Pediatric Cancers in Florida: 2000–2015

Journal Article Statistics and Public Policy · January 1, 2019 This study identifies pediatric cancer clusters in Florida for the years 2000–2015. Unlike previous publications on pediatric cancers in Florida, it draws upon an Environmental Protection Agency dataset on carcinogenic air pollution, the National Air Toxic ... Full text Cite

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Discretionary Wars

Journal Article Statistics and Public Policy · January 1, 2019 Policy-makers should perform a cost-benefit analysis before initiating a war. This article describes a methodology for such assessment, and applies it post hoc to five military actions undertaken by the United States between 1950 and 2000 (the Korean War, ... Full text Cite

Response to “Discretionary Wars, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the Rashomon Effect”

Journal Article Statistics and Public Policy · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Scalable Bayesian Modeling, Monitoring, and Analysis of Dynamic Network Flow Data

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · April 3, 2018 Traffic flow count data in networks arise in many applications, such as automobile or aviation transportation, certain directed social network contexts, and Internet studies. Using an example of Internet browser traffic flow through site-segments of an int ... Full text Cite

Discussion of “Inferring social structure from continuous-time interaction data” by Lee, Fosdick, and McCormick

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · March 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Concept Uncertainty in Adversarial Statistical Decision Theory

Chapter · January 1, 2018 We focus on concept uncertainty which adds a new layer to the traditional risk analysis distinction between aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, when adversaries are present. The idea is illustrated with a problem in adversarial point estimation framed as ... Full text Cite

Use of Mandel’s bundle of lines model to improve agreement of a panel of tea tasters

Journal Article Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka · January 1, 2018 Sensory evaluation is of prime importance in the tea industry. The price of tea is predominantly determined by the tea taster’s judgement. Hence, statisticians and sensory analysts have significant interest in improving the reliability of sensory panel eva ... Full text Cite

Discussion

Journal Article Statistica Sinica · October 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Modeling Opponents in Adversarial Risk Analysis

Journal Article Risk Analysis · April 1, 2016 Adversarial risk analysis has been introduced as a framework to deal with risks derived from intentional actions of adversaries. The analysis supports one of the decisionmakers, who must forecast the actions of the other agents. Typically, this forecast mu ... Full text Cite

Agent-based models and microsimulation

Journal Article Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application · April 10, 2015 Agent-based models (ABMs) are computational models used to simulate the actions and interactions of agents within a system. Usually, each agent has a relatively simple set of rules for how he or she responds to his or her environment and to other agents. T ... Full text Cite

Agent Based Modeling, Statistics of

Chapter · March 26, 2015 Agent-based models (ABMs) have become an important simulation tool for understanding certain categories of complex phenomena. They are widely used in epidemiology, ecology, transportation research, social networks, and other applications in which the globa ... Full text Cite

Discussion of '(sfi)2 statistics for innovation - The experience of the Oslo centre in industrial statistics'

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Adversarial risk analysis

Book · January 1, 2015 Winner of the 2017 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) A relatively new area of research, adversarial risk analysis (ARA) informs decision making when there are intelligent opponents and uncertain outcomes. Adve ... Full text Cite

Preface

Book · January 1, 2014 Cite

Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science

Book · January 1, 2014 Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science was commissioned in 2013 by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) to celebrate its 50th anniversary and the International Year of Statistics. COPSS consists of five charter member stat ... Cite

Introduction

Journal Article Statistical Analysis and Data Mining · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Applications of multiple systems estimation in human rights research

Journal Article American Statistician · January 1, 2013 Multiple systems estimation (MSE) is becoming an increasingly common approach for exploratory study of underreported events in the field of quantitative human rights. In this context, it is used to estimate the number of people who died as a result of poli ... Full text Cite

Rejoinder

Journal Article American Statistician · January 1, 2013 Full text Cite

Text mining in computational advertising

Journal Article Statistical Analysis and Data Mining · January 1, 2013 Computational advertising uses information on web-browsing activity and additional covariates to select advertisements for display to the user. The statistical challenge is to develop methodology that matches ads to users who are likely to purchase the adv ... Full text Cite

A spatio-temporal absorbing state model for disease and syndromic surveillance.

Journal Article Statistics in medicine · August 2012 Reliable surveillance models are an important tool in public health because they aid in mitigating disease outbreaks, identify where and when disease outbreaks occur, and predict future occurrences. Although many statistical models have been devised for su ... Full text Cite

Bayesian CAR models for syndromic surveillance on multiple data streams: Theory and practice

Journal Article Information Fusion · April 1, 2012 Syndromic surveillance has, so far, considered only simple models for Bayesian inference. This paper details the methodology for a serious, scalable solution to the problem of combining symptom data from a network of US hospitals for early detection of dis ... Full text Cite

Bayesian methodology for the analysis of spatial-temporal surveillance data

Journal Article Statistical Analysis and Data Mining · January 1, 2012 Early and accurate detection of outbreaks is one of the most important objectives of syndromic surveillance systems. We propose a general Bayesian framework for syndromic surveillance systems. The methodology incorporates Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF ... Full text Cite

Statistical methods in metabolomics.

Journal Article Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · January 2012 Metabolomics is the relatively new field in bioinformatics that uses measurements on metabolite abundance as a tool for disease diagnosis and other medical purposes. Although closely related to proteomics, the statistical analysis is potentially simpler si ... Full text Cite

Models for networks: A cross-disciplinary science

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics · January 1, 2012 This article is an incomplete review of the rapidly growing research on network models. It focuses chiefly upon contributions to network science that have been made by sociologists, physicists, and statisticians. It addresses several topics in the area of ... Full text Cite

Network routing for insurgency: An adversarial risk analysis framework

Journal Article Naval Research Logistics · September 1, 2011 Problems in counterterrorism and corporate competition have prompted research that attempts to combine statistical risk analysis with game theory in ways that support practical decision making. This article applies these methods of adversarial risk analysi ... Full text Cite

Adversarial risk analysis: Borel games

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · March 1, 2011 Adversarial risk analysis (ARA) offers a new solution concept in game theory. This paper explores its application to a range of simple gambling games, enabling comparison with minimax solutions for similar problems. We find that ARA has several attractive ... Full text Cite

Rejoinder to the discussion of 'Adversarial risk analysis: Borel games'

Journal Article Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry · March 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Reproducible Research: A Range of Response

Journal Article Statistics, Politics and Policy · January 1, 2011 This editorial explores statistical methods to improve reproducibility and provide a more reliable foundation for trust in scientific research. ... Full text Cite

Introduction to a special issue on statistical data mining

Journal Article Statistical Methodology · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Metabolomics in premature labor: a novel approach to identify patients at risk for preterm delivery.

Journal Article The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians · December 2010 ObjectiveBiomarkers for preterm labor (PTL) and delivery can be discovered through the analysis of the transcriptome (transcriptomics) and protein composition (proteomics). Characterization of the global changes in low-molecular weight compounds w ... Full text Cite

Statistical data mining

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics · February 1, 2010 Data mining is widely used in modern science to extract signal from complex data sets. This article summarizes some of the key intellectual issues in the development of this field, largely from a historical perspective. There is particular emphasis on the ... Full text Cite

Dynamic network models: Introduction to new and interdisciplinary approaches

Journal Article Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

Cherry-picking for complex data: robust structure discovery.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · November 2009 Complex data often arise as a superposition of data generated from several simpler models. The traditional strategy for such cases is to use mixture modelling, but it can be problematic, especially in higher dimensions. This paper considers an alternative ... Full text Cite

Adversarial risk analysis

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · June 1, 2009 Applications in counterterrorism and corporate competition have led to the development of new methods for the analysis of decision making when there are intelligent opponents and uncertain outcomes. This field represents a combination of statistical risk a ... Full text Cite

Social network methodology in the study of disasters: Issues and insights prompted by post-katrina research

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · January 1, 2009 Dynamic social networks, a key concept in modern social science research, are beginning to play a major role in understanding the ways in which individuals and communities respond to disasters. The authors of this paper review the relevant theory and resea ... Full text Cite

After a disaster: Lessons in survey methodology from Hurricane Katrina

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · January 1, 2009 In 2005, the National Science Foundation funded a number of projects to study the impact of Hurricane Katrina. The current article provides an overview of several research approaches used to conduct post-Katrina research. Each method had some advantages an ... Full text Cite

New issues in human rights statistics

Journal Article · December 1, 2008 The traditional Western conception of human rights has focused upon political and civil liberties. Recent trends are bringing social and economic rights to the fore. This chapter considers the kinds of contributions that statisticians might make in this ar ... Full text Cite

Scientists urge DHS to improve Bioterrorism Risk Assessment.

Journal Article Biosecurity and bioterrorism : biodefense strategy, practice, and science · December 2008 In 2006, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) completed its first Bioterrorism Risk Assessment (BTRA), intended to be the foundation for DHS's subsequent biennial risk assessments mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 10 (HSPD-10). At t ... Full text Cite

Test power for drug abuse surveillance

Journal Article Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) · December 1, 2008 Syndromic surveillance can be used to assess change in drug abuse rates and to find regions in which abuse is most common. This paper compares the power of three syndromic surveillance procedures (a paired-sample test, a process control chart, and a condit ... Full text Cite

Network Analysis of Wikipedia

Chapter · January 2, 2008 Full text Cite

Statistical methods for human rights

Journal Article Statistical Methods for Human Rights · January 1, 2008 Human rights issues are shaping the modern world. They define the expectations by which nations are judged and affect the policy of governments, corporations, and foundations. They have set the agenda in prosecutions at the International Criminal Court at ... Full text Cite

Combining game theory and risk analysis in counterterrorism: A smallpox example

Journal Article · December 1, 2006 The U.S. government wishes to invest its resources as wisely as possible in defense. Each wasted dollar diverts money that could be used to harden crucial vulnerabilities, prevents investment in future economic growth, and increases taxpayer burden. This i ... Full text Cite

Biometric authentication

Journal Article · December 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Data mining in electronic commerce

Journal Article Statistical Science · May 1, 2006 Modern business is rushing toward e-commerce. If the transition is done properly, it enables better management, new services, lower transaction costs and better customer relations. Success depends on skilled information technologists, among whom are statis ... Full text Cite

Data quality: A statistical perspective

Journal Article Statistical Methodology · April 1, 2006 We present the old-but-new problem of data quality from a statistical perspective, in part with the goal of attracting more statisticians, especially academics, to become engaged in research on a rich set of exciting challenges. The data quality landscape ... Full text Cite

A special issue on Bioinformatics: Introduction

Journal Article Statistical Methodology · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Comparing data mining methods on the VAERS database.

Journal Article Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · September 2005 PurposeData mining may enhance traditional surveillance of vaccine adverse events by identifying events that are reported more commonly after administering one vaccine than other vaccines. Data mining methods find signals as the proportion of time ... Full text Cite

Comparing methods for multivariate nonparametric regression

Journal Article Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation · May 1, 2003 The ever-growing number of high-dimensional, superlarge databases requires effective analysis techniques to mine interesting information from the data. Development of new-wave methodologies for high-dimensional nonparametric regression has exploded over th ... Full text Cite

Functional brain maturation in neonates as measured by EEG-sleep analyses.

Journal Article Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · May 2003 ObjectiveSeven measures of neonatal EEG-sleep behavior were evaluated using multivariate analyses to ascertain if physiologic differences exist between healthy full- and preterm cohorts.MethodsA total of 381 24-channel EEG-sleep studies w ... Full text Cite

Data mining in federal agencies

Chapter · January 1, 2003 Federal agencies in the United States collect enormous quantities of data. Recently, they have begun to attempt to apply data mining to extract additional insights from their collections. ... Cite

Temperature differences during sleep between fullterm and preterm neonates at matched post-conceptional ages.

Journal Article Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · January 2003 ObjectiveAltered physiologic behaviors during sleep have been described for healthy preterm neonates at post-conceptional fullterm ages. These differences may reflect brain dysmaturity as a result of conditions of prematurity. The present study ex ... Full text Cite

Neonatal EEG-sleep disruption mimicking hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy after intrapartum asphyxia

Journal Article Sleep Medicine · September 1, 2002 Objectives: EEG-sleep organization of asphyxiated and non-asphyxiated full-term neonates was compared during the first 3 days after birth. Background: Aggressive fetal and neonatal resuscitative efforts have reduced the severe expression of the neonatal br ... Full text Cite

Combinatorial Search Problems in Statistical Modeling

Journal Article Statistics in Transition · 2002 Cite

Statistics on Homeland Defense

Journal Article Chance · 2002 Cite

Discussion of the invited session on Ethics and Publication

Journal Article Proceedings of the Secton on Government Statistics of the American Statistical Association · 2002 Cite

Data Quality in Federal Statistics

Journal Article Proceedings of Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association · 2002 Cite

Are Households with Interrupted Phone Service Like Those with No Phone Service?

Journal Article Transactions of the Transportation Research Board · 2001 Cite

Exploratory Data Analysis: Multivariate Approaches

Journal Article International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences · 2001 Cite

Introduction of Willem Heiser

Journal Article Journal of Classification · 2001 Cite

The applicability of quasi-steady theory to pressure statistics beneath roof-top vortices

Journal Article Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics · 2001 During cornering winds, dual conical vortices form in the separated flow along the leading edges of flat roofs. These vortices cause the most extreme wind induced suction forces found anywhere on the building, so it is important to predict them accurately. ... Full text Cite

An Approach to Combining Results from Multiple Methods Motivated by the ISO GUM

Journal Article Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology · January 1, 2000 The problem of determining a consensus value and its uncertainty from the results of multiple methods or laboratories is discussed. Desirable criteria of a solution are presented. A solution motivated by the ISO Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Me ... Full text Cite

A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Psydorandom Number Generators for Statistical Applications

Journal Article NIST Special Publication in Computer Security · 2000 Cite

Combining classification trees using MLE

Journal Article Statistics in Medicine · 1999 We propose a probability distribution for an equivalence class of classification trees (that is, those that ignore the value of the cutpoints but retain tree structure). This distribution is parameterized by a central tree structure representing the true m ... Full text Cite

Nonparametric inference on mtDNA mismatches

Journal Article Journal of Nonparametric Statistics · January 1, 1999 Population biologists use fairly elementary methods to estimate parameters associated with DNA mismatch distributions, which serve as one basis for their formulation of an evolutionary history of the population. This paper presents new statistical methodol ... Full text Cite

Blind Men and Elephants

Journal Article Information Retrieval · 1999 Cite

Design of Cost-Effective Experiments

Journal Article Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Quality and Productivity · 1999 Cite

The Collision of Government, Ethics, and Statistics

Journal Article Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Social Statistics · 1999 Cite

Equating laboratories: Modelling and analysis

Journal Article Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference · January 1, 1999 Efficient world trade requires that manufacturers in one country have confidence that their product will meet specifications that are verified by purchasers in another country. But these trading partners rely upon different national metrology laboratories ... Cite

Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data

Journal Article Information Retrieval · January 1, 1999 The paper reviews six recent efforts to better understand performance measurements on information retrieval (IR) systems within the framework of the Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC): analysis of variance, cluster analyses, rank correlations, beadplots, mu ... Full text Cite

Reliability of conformance tests

Journal Article Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference · December 1, 1998 A conformance test is a software assurance test that is applied in order to determine if specification requirements of the software are being met. It is a time-independent model, where the software object is subjected to an a priori known test suite. The r ... Cite

Reliability of conformance tests

Conference Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference · January 1, 1998 A conformance test is a software assurance test that is applied in order to determine if specification requirements of the software are being met. It is a time-independent model, where the software object is subjected to an a priori known test suite. The r ... Full text Cite

Maximum Entropy Models for Random Objects

Journal Article Computing Science and Statistics · 1998 Cite

Metric models for random graphs

Journal Article Journal of Classification · January 1, 1998 Many problems entail the analysis of data that are independent and identically distributed random graphs. Useful inference requires flexible probability models for such random graphs; these models should have interpretable location and scale parameters, an ... Full text Cite

Testing Random Number Generators

Journal Article Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association · 1998 Cite

Software Testing : Protocol Comparison

Journal Article Proceedings of the Eleventh International Software Quality Week, Section 8 · 1998 Cite

Changes in spectral EEG energies during sleep over the first 2 months of life in healthy neonatal cohorts

Journal Article Journal of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Mortality · January 1, 1998 Two spectral EEG measures were compared from multiple-channel EEG-sleep 3-hr nap studies of 40 preterm and 31 fullterm infants from birth through 7 months of age. Spectral beta range EEG energies derived from fourteen cerebral channels decreased for both n ... Cite

Brain dysmaturity as expressed by EEG-sleep differences between healthy preterm and fullterm neonatal cohorts

Journal Article Journal of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Mortality · January 1, 1998 Two statistical strategies to analyze EEG-sleep are described for a population of 129 healthy newborns. Seven EEG-sleep measures were selected to quantitate the degree of EEG dysmaturity between preterm and fullterm neonatal cohorts. These analytical tools ... Cite

Regional differences in spectral EEG measures between healthy term and preterm infants.

Journal Article Pediatric neurology · October 1997 State-specific spectral electroencephalographic (EEG) values were compared among 14 bipolar channel derivations between two healthy neonatal cohorts. Fifty-five healthy preterm neonates of < or = 32 weeks gestational age at birth were studied with 24-chann ... Full text Cite

Computer classification of state in healthy preterm neonates.

Journal Article Sleep · February 1997 Nineteen electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep measures describing four physiologic aspects of sleep behavior (i.e. sleep continuity, EEG spectra, body and eye movements, and autonomic measures) were derived from visual and computer analyses of 71 24-channel ... Full text Cite

An MLE Strategy for Combining CART Models

Journal Article Computing Science and Statistics · 1997 Cite

Software Testing by Statistical Methods

Journal Article NIST Internal Report #6129 · 1997 Cite

Estimating Local Dimensionality

Journal Article Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association · 1997 Cite

Prediction of lower developmental performances of healthy neonates by neonatal EEG-sleep measures.

Journal Article Pediatric neurology · February 1996 Previous neurophysiologic studies from our laboratory have demonstrated altered EEG-sleep behavior at conceptional term ages in healthy preterm infant compared with a term cohort. Developmental assessments at 12 and 24 months of age of 16 children in each ... Full text Cite

A conversation with I. J. Good

Journal Article Statistical Science · January 1, 1996 Irving John Good was born in London on December 9, 1916. He attended the Haberdashers’ “secondary” School, distinguishing himself as a mathematical prodigy, and then entered Jesus College at Cambridge University in 1935. He studied under G. H. Hardy and A. ... Full text Cite

A multivariate statistical approach to metrology

Journal Article Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Transactions of the ASME · January 1, 1996 This paper presents an approach to metrology that allows one to set a confidence level on geometric parameters using multivariate statistical techniques. Furthermore, the analysis incorporates deviations from nominal geometry that are expected from various ... Full text Cite

Models for network evolution

Journal Article Journal of Mathematical Sociology · January 1, 1996 This paper describes mathematical models for network evolution when ties (edges) are directed and the node set is fixed. Each of these models implies a specific type of departure from the standard null binomial model. We provide statistical tests that, in ... Full text Cite

Postnatal adaptation of brain function in full-term neonates as assessed by EEG sleep analyses.

Journal Article Sleep · September 1995 Differences in electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep between preterm and full-term neonatal cohorts at matched postconceptional ages have been previously presented by our study group. These differences may have occurred, however, because of postnatal brain a ... Full text Cite

Maturational trends of EEG-sleep measures in the healthy preterm neonate.

Journal Article Pediatric neurology · May 1995 Five physiologic groupings of 45 EEG-sleep measures were acquired from serial 24-channel EEG-sleep recordings (i.e., sleep architecture, continuity, EEG spectral, phasic, and autonomic measures), utilizing 129 studies on 56 healthy preterm infants from 28 ... Full text Cite

Assessing Geometric Conformance

Journal Article Computing Science and Statistics · 1995 Cite

Statistical verification of conformance to geometric tolerance

Journal Article Computer-Aided Design · January 1, 1995 Modern coordinate measurement machines have provided industry with new tools for inspecting complex parts. The paper develops statistical procedures that complement these inspection methods, and it ties the conformance problem into the hypothesis testing f ... Full text Cite

Models for evolving fixed node networks: Model fitting and model testing

Journal Article Social Networks · January 1, 1995 Researchers in social networks are becoming increasingly interested in how networks evolve over time. There are theories that bear on the evolution of networks, but virtually no statistical methodology which supports the comparative evaluation of these the ... Full text Cite

Comparing Methods for Nonparametric Regression

Journal Article Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association · 1995 Cite

Statistical verification of conformance to geometric tolerance

Journal Article American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division (Publication) DE · December 1, 1994 Modern coordinate measurement machines have provided industry with new tools for inspecting complex parts. This paper develops statistical procedures that complement these inspection methods, and it ties the conformance problem into the hypothesis testing ... Cite

Statistical metrology

Journal Article American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC · December 1, 1994 This paper presents an approach to metrology that allows one to set a confidence level on geometric parameters using a multivariate statistical approach. Furthermore, the analysis incorporates deviations from nominal geometry that are expected from various ... Cite

Comparative estimates of neonatal gestational maturity by electrographic and fetal ultrasonographic criteria.

Journal Article Pediatric neurology · October 1994 We previously reported a high correlation between electrographic and postmortem neuroanatomic (i.e., sulcal-gyral) estimates of maturity in sick preterm neonates who were clinically abnormal because of neonatal medical illnesses. Electroencephalographic st ... Full text Cite

Metric inference for social networks

Journal Article Journal of Classification · March 1, 1994 Using a natural metric on the space of networks, we define a probability measure for network-valued random variables. This measure is indexed by two parameters, which are interpretable as a location parameter and a dispersion parameter. From this structure ... Full text Cite

Comparisons of EEG sleep state-specific spectral values between healthy full-term and preterm infants at comparable postconceptional ages.

Journal Article Sleep · February 1994 Differences in state-specific electroencephalographic (EEG) spectral values are described between groups of preterm and full-term neonates at comparable postconceptional term ages. Eighteen healthy preterm neonates of < or = 32 weeks gestation were selecte ... Full text Cite

Statistical verification of conformance to geometric tolerance

Conference Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 1994 Modern coordinate measurement machines have provided industry with new tools for inspecting complex parts. This paper develops statistical procedures that complement these inspection methods, and it ties the conformance problem into the hypothesis testing ... Full text Cite

Rejoinder

Journal Article Statistical Science · January 1, 1993 Full text Cite

Is Industrial Statistics Out of Control?

Journal Article Statistical Science · 1993 Cite

Nonparametric Inference for Network Data

Journal Article Journal of Mathematical Sociology · 1993 Cite

Pre-Analysis of Superlarge Industrial Data Sets

Journal Article Journal of Quality Technology · July 1992 Full text Cite

Rejoinder

Journal Article Statistical Science · January 1, 1992 Full text Cite

Preanalysis of Superlarge Datasets

Journal Article Journal of Quality Technology · 1992 Cite

The Minimal Spanning Tree for Nonparametric Regression and Structure Discovery

Journal Article Computing Science and Statistics · 1992 Cite

A Linear Mosel for Graph-Valued Random Variables

Journal Article Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association · 1992 Cite

Meeting the Needs of New Statistical Researchers

Journal Article Statistical Science · 1991 Cite

New Researchers Survival Guide

Journal Article IMS · 1991 Cite

A New Statistical Strategy for Assessing Human Rights Change

Journal Article Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association · 1990 Cite

Patterns of Oppression: An Exploratory Analysis of Human Rights Data

Journal Article Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1989 Cite

Bayesian Sieving

Journal Article Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association · 1989 Cite

New Human Rights Patterns

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