The role that fixed points play in regression diagnostics is investigated. A new mechanical device that uses linkages to model the role of fixed points is described. A numerical example is presented.

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a generalized multivariate regression problem where the responses are monotonic functions of linear transformations of predictors ... non-smooth objective function ...

31 Patient characteristics were age (eight ordinal categories); gender ... We first estimated multilevel linear regression models with a random intercept at the general practice level. We tested ...

Expert advice & development of Bayesian pricing & reserving models for insurance ... Time architecture that handles right-censoring, missing data, ordinal covariates and a linear regression submodel.

At the core of the method are nonmetric probabilistic difference scaling methods, a class of indirect scaling methods based on ordinal judgments of intensity ... attention or wrong key presses. This ...

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Health, Natural Resources and Applied Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia. Food insecurity ...

Researchers at EPFL have created a mathematical model that helps explain how breaking language into sequences makes modern AI ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric ...

The Chinese startup DeepSeek said Thursday that its upgraded artificial-intelligence model can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, while ...

When Donald Trump stormed into the White House in 2016, horrified Americans debated, almost endlessly, whether the shocking result was an expression of widespread racism (backlash to a Black ...