Study reveals holiday effect on China's time-honored brands, especially alcoholic beverages.
problem Understanding holiday impact on China's time-honored brands.
method Event study using listed companies of China's time-honored brands from 2012-2021.
result Time-honored brand stocks show significant post-holiday effect during Chinese New Year, alcoholic beverages more sensitive.
The professional services sector is at a turning point, with some industries showing growth opportunities.
problem Identifying growth opportunities in the professional services sector after decades of growth.
method A simple framework applied to the US economic context to diagnose growth opportunities.
result The professional services sector is expected to stall at a national level, but some industries still offer growth opportunities.
Phone sensors could be useful in assessing changes in gait that occur with alcohol consumption. This study determined (1) feasibility of collecting gait-related data during drinking occasions in the natural environment, and (2) how gait-related features measured by phone sensors relate to estimated blood alcohol concen…
Method predicts NAFLD risk with high accuracy and distribution-free coverage guarantees.
problem Insufficient population-level screening tools for NAFLD.
method Gradient-boosted decision trees with conformal prediction.
result Method achieves AUROC of 0.912 internally and 0.891 externally, superior to other models.
DeepPPMNet forecasts EMS demand and performs causal analyses for policy-making.
problem Accurate prediction and causal analysis of EMS demand for effective policy-making.
method DeepPPMNet, a LSTM-based framework, globally forecasts and analyzes causal relationships using Granger causality.
result DeepPPMNet outperforms traditional methods in forecasting EMS demand and policy-making.
FuDGE estimates differences between functional graphs in high-dimensional settings.
problem Estimating differences between two undirected functional graphical models with shared structures.
method FuDGE: A method that directly estimates the functional differential graph without first estimating individual graphs.
result FuDGE consistently estimates the functional differential graph in high-dimensional settings.
LSTMs improve demand forecasting for e-grocery products.
problem Improving demand forecasting accuracy in e-grocery retail.
method Developed and tested univariate and multivariate LSTM models for 100 fast-moving consumer goods.
result LSTMs outperform traditional models for food products, especially in beverage category.
This study uses ARM to analyze pedestrian crashes under different lighting conditions.
problem Identifying crash risk factors under varying lighting conditions.
method Applied Association Rules Mining to Louisiana pedestrian crash data.
result Daylight crashes are associated with children, seniors, and older drivers.
Paper predicts recycling bin full events to reduce RVM downtime.
problem Predicting bin full events to increase RVM uptime.
method Hybrid approach combining machine learning and statistical approximation.
result Forecasting leads to less downtime and costs compared to emptying strategies.
Paper develops PGMM framework for debiased inference on nonparametric IV estimators.
problem Automatic debiased inference on nonparametric IV functionals.
method Penalized GMM (PGMM) framework for functionals of IV estimators.
result PGMM-based debiased estimator performs well, achieving near-nominal coverage.
This study identifies RwD crash patterns on rural two-lane highways under different lighting conditions.
problem Insufficient investigation of RwD crashes under varying lighting conditions.
method Data mining using association rules mining (ARM) on crash database.
result Interesting crash patterns and risk factors identified under different lighting conditions.
We consider the problem of estimating the difference between two functional undirected graphical models with shared structures. In many applications, data are naturally regarded as high-dimensional random function vectors rather than multivariate scalars. For example, electroencephalography (EEG) data are more appropri…
SyGlasso models tensor data dependencies using Sylvester equations.
problem Capturing multiway dependencies in tensor-valued data.
method Based on Sylvester equation, uses nodewise regression for estimation.
result Demonstrates simultaneous estimation of brain connectivity and temporal dependencies.
It is widely acknowledged that addiction relapse is highly associated with spatial-temporal factors such as some specific places or time periods. Current studies suggest that those factors can be utilized for better relapse interventions, however, there is no relapse prevention application that makes use of those facto…
New method uses nuclear and ℓ1 penalties for matrix regression, improving brain disorder detection.
problem Modeling high-dimensional matrix predictors with binary responses.
method Convex optimization with ADMM for low-rank and sparse structures.
result Effective in identifying brain disorder-related connectivity patterns.
Framework predicts mortality risk in MAFLD subjects.
problem Lack of mortality prediction methods for MAFLD subjects.
method Artificial Intelligence-based framework MAFUS using ML algorithms.
result Support Vector Machines (SVM) is the best model for mortality prediction.
Bayesian method for estimating functional graphical models from neuroimaging data.
problem Estimating dependence structures from functional data in neuroscience.
method Fully Bayesian regularization scheme, including direct Bayesian analog of functional graphical lasso and graphical horseshoe.
result Insight into brain compensation after traumatic brain injury.
Quantitatively predicting phenotype variables by the expression changes in a set of candidate genes is of great interest in molecular biology but it is also a challenging task for several reasons. First, the collected biological observations might be heterogeneous and correspond to different biological mechanisms. Seco…
This paper considers the problem of recognizing eating gestures by tracking wrist motion. Eating gestures can have large variability in motion depending on the subject, utensil, and type of food or beverage being consumed. Previous works have shown viable proofs-of-concept of recognizing eating gestures in laboratory s…
ST-GCN improves rs-fMRI prediction accuracy by modeling spatio-temporal graph connectivity.
problem Existing rs-fMRI methods neglect functional connectivity or temporal dynamics.
method Spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) trained on BOLD time series.
result ST-GCN predicts gender and age more accurately than common methods.
The analysis of comorbidity is an open and complex research field in the branch of psychiatry, where clinical experience and several studies suggest that the relation among the psychiatric disorders may have etiological and treatment implications. In this paper, we are interested in applying latent feature modeling to …
PhysioMTL learns personalized HRV rhythms from wearable data, improving prediction and counterfactual analysis.
problem Challenges in interpreting HRV measurements due to variability and stressors.
method PhysioMTL combines Optimal Transport and MTL to learn personalized diurnal rhythms from heterogeneous data.
result PhysioMTL outperforms other methods in predicting unseen subjects and generating counterfactual effects.
Unified method for discovering biclusters and triclusters in longitudinal data.
problem High-dimensional, sparsely sampled, irregularly observed longitudinal data.
method Tri-SfSVD, a unified sparse functional Singular Value Decomposition framework.
result Identified localized structures at the subject, subject-feature, and subject-feature-time levels.
Unified framework for estimating indirect effects in observational studies with unmeasured confounding.
problem Challenges in evaluating indirect effects due to unmeasured confounding and unethical exposures.
method Developed a unified identification and estimation framework using proximal causal inference.
result Unified identification and estimation of PIIE and causal effect of an intervening variable in settings with pervasive unmeasured confounding.
Syndromic surveillance detects and monitors individual and population health indicators through sources such as emergency department records. Automated classification of these records can improve outbreak detection speed and diagnosis accuracy. Current syndromic systems rely on hand-coded keyword-based methods to parse…
Community-based Question Answering (CQA) sites play an important role in addressing health information needs. However, a significant number of posted questions remain unanswered. Automatically answering the posted questions can provide a useful source of information for online health communities. In this study, we deve…
GFA model uncovers brain-behavior associations in incomplete data sets.
problem Incomplete data sets and lack of robust statistical inferences.
method Hierarchical Bayesian model that handles missing data and models modality-specific associations.
result GFA identified four relevant shared factors and predicted non-imaging measures from brain connectivity.
Develops a new method to model overlapping asymmetric datasets effectively.
problem Handling overlapping asymmetric datasets in data science.
method Twice penalized P-Spline approximation method.
result Improves model fit by over 65% in a real-life dataset.