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The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data
M. C. Jones,John Aitchison +1 more
- Vol. 150, Iss: 4, pp 396-396
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Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approaches for Proportional Data Modeling and Classification
TL;DR: The goal is to discover and capture the intrinsic nature of the data by proposing some approaches that combine the major advantages of generative models namely finite mixtures and discriminative techniques namely support vector machines (SVMs).
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A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500–50 ka
TL;DR: The chronometric dating evidence for all hominid fossils from Africa and the Near East that have previously been dated to 500-50 ka is critically assessed using the concept of chronometric hygiene, and these dates are revised using Bayesian statistical analyses where possible.
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A New Dataset on Infant Mortality Rates, 1816—2002:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new dataset reporting annual infant mortality rates for all states in the world, based on the Correlates of War state system list, between 1816 and 2002.
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Cokriging particle size fractions of the soil
R. M. Lark,Thomas F. A. Bishop +1 more
TL;DR: The additive log-ratio (alr) transform can be used to transform data from a compositional variate into a form that can be treated as a realization of an unbounded random variable as discussed by the authors.
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Reliability of School Surveys in Estimating Geographic Variation in Malaria Transmission in the Western Kenyan Highlands
Jennifer C. Stevenson,Gillian Stresman,Caroline W. Gitonga,Caroline W. Gitonga,Jonathan Gillig,Chrispin Owaga,Elizabeth Marube,Wycliffe Odongo,Albert Okoth,Pauline China,Robin Oriango,Simon Brooker,Simon Brooker,Teun Bousema,Teun Bousema,Chris Drakeley,Jonathan Cox +16 more
TL;DR: Estimates of malaria prevalence from school surveys were consistently higher than those from community surveys and were strongly correlated, which can be used as a reliable indicator of malaria transmission intensity in the wider community and may provide a basis for identifying priority areas for malaria control.
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