Sciweavers

6 search results - page 1 / 2
» Revisiting the uniqueness of simple demographics in the US p...
Sort
View
WPES
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Revisiting the uniqueness of simple demographics in the US population
According to a famous study [10] of the 1990 census data, 87% of the US population can be uniquely identified by gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. This short paper revisit...
Philippe Golle
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
The demographics of web search
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...
Ingmar Weber, Carlos Castillo
BMCBI
2010
185views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
ABCtoolbox: a versatile toolkit for approximate Bayesian computations
Background: The estimation of demographic parameters from genetic data often requires the computation of likelihoods. However, the likelihood function is computationally intractab...
Daniel Wegmann, Christoph Leuenberger, Samuel Neue...
KDD
2009
ACM
203views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Characterizing individual communication patterns
The increasing availability of electronic communication data, such as that arising from e-mail exchange, presents social and information scientists with new possibilities for char...
R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amara...
BMCBI
2010
124views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Estimating time since infection in early homogeneous HIV-1 samples using a poisson model
Background: The occurrence of a genetic bottleneck in HIV sexual or mother-to-infant transmission has been well documented. This results in a majority of new infections being homo...
Elena E. Giorgi, Bob Funkhouser, Gayathri Athreya,...