Objectives To determine the prevalence of cerebral atrophy in a multi-ethnic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) cohort and to ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

David Harper is the CEO and founder of Bionic Turtle. He is also a published author with a popular YouTube channel on expert finance topics. Probability distributions help investors model uncertainty ...

Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA. Ordinal outcome neural networks represent an innovative and robust methodology for analyzing high-dimensional ...

A quarter century is a long time for policy. It’s no different in the case of the big bang opening up of India’s state-controlled insurance industry in 2000. Two deals serve as book-ends for that ...

Abstract: A widely accepted way to assess the performance of iterative black-box optimizers is to analyze their empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF) of predefined quality targets achieved ...

The Poisson distribution is a special case of the binomial distribution that it models discrete events. It expresses the probability of a number of relatively rare events occurring in a fixed time if ...

Background The projected increase in extreme heat days is a growing public health concern. While exposure to extreme heat has been shown to negatively affect mortality and physical health, very little ...

In this paper, we consider the construction of the approximate profile-likelihood confidence intervals for parameters of the 2-parameter Weibull distribution based on small type-2 censored samples. In ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present novel exact closed-form expressions for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the sum of an arbitrary number of ...