Robo-advisors estimate clients' risk aversion using interactive questionnaires.
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We consider the problem of identifying the most profitable product design from a finite set of candidates under unknown consumer preference. A standard approach to this problem follows a two-step strategy: First, estimate the preference of the consumer population, represented as a point in part-worth space, using an ad…
A framework uses preprocessing to improve psychiatric questionnaire predictions while maintaining interpretability.
Can humans impute missing data with similar proficiency as machines? This is the question we aim to answer in this paper. We present a novel idea of converting observations with missing data in to a survey questionnaire, which is presented to crowdworkers for completion. We replicate a multiple imputation framework by …
The study analyzes how large language models form and express investor risk profiles.
New method detects careless responding in long surveys.
MOAI evaluates indoor airflow's impact on COVID-19 transmission.
GPT-4 assesses its confidence in answering USMLE questions with and without feedback.
Prediction of disease onset from patient survey and lifestyle data is quickly becoming an important tool for diagnosing a disease before it progresses. In this study, data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) questionnaire is used to predict the onset of type II diabetes. An ensemble model…
Simulation workflow is a top-level model for the design and control of simulation process. It connects multiple simulation components with time and interaction restrictions to form a complete simulation system. Before the construction and evaluation of the component models, the validation of upper-layer simulation work…
The main aim of this paper is to inspect the properties of survey based on households inflation expectations, conducted by Reserve Bank of India. It is theorized that the respondents answers are exaggerated by extreme response bias. Latent class analysis has been hailed as a promising technique for studying measurement…
TabSODA improves imputation of surveys with skips and ordinal data.
In many countries information on expectations collected through consumer confidence surveys are used in macroeconomic policy formulation. Unfortunately, before doing so, the consistency of responses is often not taken into account, leading to biases creeping in and affecting the reliability of the indices hence created…
Ordinal data is omnipresent in almost all multiuser-generated feedback - questionnaires, preferences etc. This paper investigates modelling of ordinal data with Gaussian restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs). In particular, we present the model architecture, learning and inference procedures for both vector-variate and …
Study explores factors influencing saving behavior among Dhaka employees.
This essay reviews human observer-based methods employed in shark spotting in Muizenberg Beach. It investigates Machine Learning methods for automated shark detection with the aim of enhancing human observation. A questionnaire and interview were used to collect information about shark spotting, the motivation of the a…
Archetypal analysis helps understand binary data sets.
New algorithm estimates intrinsic dimension of discrete datasets.
Process discovery has seen a rise in popularity in the last decade for both researchers and businesses. Recent developments mainly focused on the power and the functionalities of the discovery algorithm. While continuous improvement of these functional aspects is very important, non-functional aspects such as visualiza…
Bluetooth data predicts depression severity, showing 18.8% extra variance.
Is it possible to predict the motivation of players just by observing their gameplay data? Even if so, how should we measure motivation in the first place? To address the above questions, on the one end, we collect a large dataset of gameplay data from players of the popular game Tom Clancy's The Division. On the other…
Existing Recommender Systems mainly focus on exploiting users' feedback, e.g., ratings, and reviews on common items to detect similar users. Thus, they might fail when there are no common items of interest among users. We call this problem the Data Sparsity With no Feedback on Common Items (DSW-n-FCI). Personality-base…
Survey of techniques for diagnosing pediatric sleep apnea from inexpensive data.
Method completes mixed matrix from complex surveys with heterogeneous missingness.
Researchers study how teachers' advising relationships influence their perceptions of satisfaction and students, not policy influence.
The aim of this paper is to get an overview of the online buyer profile, and also some key aspects in the way the online shopping is conducted. In this project we conducted a quantitative research, consisting of a questionnaire based survey. For data processing and interpretation we used SPSS statistical software and E…
Model predicts increased social unrest during COVID-19 using social media data.
Early diagnosis is important for type 2 diabetes (T2D) to improve patient prognosis, prevent complications and reduce long-term treatment costs. We present a novel risk profiling approach based exclusively on health expenditure data that is available to Belgian mutual health insurers. We used expenditure data related t…
Study reveals LLM personas have two distinct components: frame-robust aggregated traits and frame-dependent geometric features.
Client appraisal improves efficiency in microfinance banks in Adamawa State.
Sepsis is the leading cause of death in non-coronary intensive care units. Moreover, a delay of antibiotic treatment of patients with severe sepsis by only few hours is associated with increased mortality. This insight makes accurate models for early prediction of sepsis a key task in machine learning for healthcare. P…
Study shows financial literacy, social capital, and financial tech positively impact financial inclusion of Indonesian students.
Tangles improve clustering in various datasets.
The paper proposes a test to determine the number of latent classes in ordinal categorical data.
User surveys for Quality of Experience (QoE) are a critical source of information. In addition to the common "star rating" used to estimate Mean Opinion Score (MOS), more detailed survey questions (problem tokens) about specific areas provide valuable insight into the factors impacting QoE. This paper explores two aspe…
Surrogate-based analysis of interactions via local effect smooths
New estimators improve Rasch model item parameter estimation for sparse data.
Factorization Machine (FM) is a widely used supervised learning approach by effectively modeling of feature interactions. Despite the successful application of FM and its many deep learning variants, treating every feature interaction fairly may degrade the performance. For example, the interactions of a useless featur…
A new method detects interactions in neural networks using topological analysis.
iKF method uncovers complex variable interactions for scientific discovery.
A graph neural network detects beneficial feature interactions for recommender systems.
We describe and extract time-ordered multibody interactions from complex systems.
Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by canceling interaction rates.
Understanding how features interact with each other is of paramount importance in many scientific discoveries and contemporary applications. Yet interaction identification becomes challenging even for a moderate number of covariates. In this paper, we suggest an efficient and flexible procedure, called the interaction …
Multitask Gaussian process (MTGP) is powerful for joint learning of multiple tasks with complicated correlation patterns. However, due to the assembling of additive independent latent functions, all current MTGPs including the salient linear model of coregionalization (LMC) and convolution frameworks cannot effectively…
SocialInteractionGAN generates realistic human interactions from low-dimensional data.
Study predicts online procrastination using machine learning.
We provide a novel approach and an exploratory study for modelling life event choices and occurrence from a probabilistic perspective through causal discovery and survival analysis. Our approach is formulated as a bi-level problem. In the upper level, we build the life events graph, using causal discovery tools. In the…