Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include ...

Selecting a random sample from a set is simple. But what about selecting a fair random sample from a set of unknown or indeterminate size? That’s where reservoir sampling comes in, and [Sam ...

Participants who chose not to learn their results said it would place a burden on themselves and their family members. As ...

Objectives To evaluate the analysis and reporting of comparative effectiveness research with observational data in rheumatology, informing European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology points to ...

In this paper, we study an online cost optimization problem for distributed data access. The goal of this problem is to dynamically create and delete data copies in a multi-server distributed system ...