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Abstract: The Joint Reliability Importance (JRI) of two components evaluates the interaction effect between the components on system reliability. This paper focuses on the JRI of components in a ...

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If a new pathogen causes a large epidemic, then it might “burn out” before causing a second epidemic. The burnout probability can be estimated from large numbers of computationally intensive ...

The prognosis of breast cancer varies by histologic subtype, with infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) being the most prevalent, comprising 70% of infiltrating breast cancers. Long-term survival ...

Probability is a fundamental concept in mathematics and statistics that deals with the likelihood of events occurring. It provides a framework for quantifying uncertainty and making predictions based ...

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Abstract: Feature weighting is used to alleviate the conditional independence assumption of Naïive Bayes text classifiers and consequently improve their generalization performance. Most traditional ...

The binomial distribution is a key concept in probability that models situations where you repeat the same experiment several times, and each time there are only two possible outcomes—success or ...

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