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Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Abstract: In this article, we introduce a dynamic generative model, the Bayesian allocation model (BAM), for modeling count data. BAM covers various probabilistic nonnegative tensor factorization (NTF ...

Sometimes in a comparison of the frequency of observations in a fourfold table the numbers are too small for the χ² test (Chapter 8). The exact probability test devised by Fisher, Irwin, and Yates (1) ...

Abstract: Up-to Congestion (UTC) bidding, first adopted by the Pennsylvania–New Jersey–Maryland Interconnection (PJM), is a form of virtual transaction that enables profit from the spread between ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

Ocean observing systems in coastal, shelf and marginal seas collect diverse oceanographic information supporting a wide range of socioeconomic needs, but observations are necessarily sparse in space ...

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 ...

Industrialized countries aiming to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 have several strategies for decarbonizing electricity generation. In the US, renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are among the most ...

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