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WSC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient tail estimation for sums of correlated lognormals
Our focus is on efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by corre...
Jose Blanchet, Sandeep Juneja, Leonardo Rojas-Nand...
IJAR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Computing best-possible bounds for the distribution of a sum of several variables is NP-hard
In many real-life situations, we know the probability distribution of two random variables x1 and x2, but we have no information about the correlation between x1 and x2; what are ...
Vladik Kreinovich, Scott Ferson
NIPS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Characterizing neural dependencies with copula models
The coding of information by neural populations depends critically on the statistical dependencies between neuronal responses. However, there is no simple model that can simultane...
Pietro Berkes, Frank Wood, Jonathan Pillow
KDD
2008
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Fastanova: an efficient algorithm for genome-wide association study
Studying the association between quantitative phenotype (such as height or weight) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is an important problem in biology. To understand und...
Xiang Zhang, Fei Zou, Wei Wang 0010
PAMI
1998
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13 years 4 months ago
Ordinal Measures for Image Correspondence
—We present ordinal measures of association for image correspondence in the context of stereo. Linear correspondence measures like correlation and the sum of squared difference b...
Dinkar N. Bhat, Shree K. Nayar