Search Results - "Lee, Ann B."

A composite likelihood approach for inference under photometric redshift uncertainty by Rau, M M, Morrison, C B, Schmidt, S J, Wilson, S, Mandelbaum, R, Mao, Y-Y

“…ABSTRACT Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid,…”
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Discovering genetic ancestry using spectral graph theory by Lee, Ann B., Luca, Diana, Klei, Lambertus, Devlin, Bernie, Roeder, Kathryn

“…As one approach to uncovering the genetic underpinnings of complex disease, individuals are measured at a large number of genetic variants (usually SNPs)…”
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An Optimal Transportation Approach for Nuclear Structure-Based Pathology by Wei Wang, Ozolek, J A, Slepčev, Dejan, Lee, Ann B, Cheng Chen, Rohde, G K

“…Nuclear morphology and structure as visualized from histopathology microscopy images can yield important diagnostic clues in some benign and malignant tissue…”
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The Nonlinear Statistics of High-Contrast Patches in Natural Images by Lee, Ann B, Pedersen, Kim S, Mumford, David

“…Issue Title: Special Issue on Computational Vision at Brown University Recently, there has been a great deal of interest in modeling the non-Gaussian…”
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On the Use of General Control Samples for Genome-wide Association Studies: Genetic Matching Highlights Causal Variants by Luca, Diana, Ringquist, Steven, Klei, Lambertus, Lee, Ann B., Gieger, Christian, Wichmann, H.-Erich, Schreiber, Stefan, Krawczak, Michael, Lu, Ying, Styche, Alexis, Devlin, Bernie, Roeder, Kathryn, Trucco, Massimo

“…Resources being amassed for genome-wide association (GWA) studies include “control databases” genotyped with a large-scale SNP array. How to use these…”
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Occlusion Models for Natural Images: A Statistical Study of a Scale-Invariant Dead Leaves Model by Lee, Ann B, Mumford, David, Huang, Jinggang

“…We develop a scale-invariant version of Matheron's "dead leaves model" for the statistics of natural images. The model takes occlusions into account and…”
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ABC-CDE: Toward Approximate Bayesian Computation With Complex High-Dimensional Data and Limited Simulations by Izbicki, Rafael, Lee, Ann B., Pospisil, Taylor

“…Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is typically used when the likelihood is either unavailable or intractable but where data can be simulated under…”
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Nonparametric Conditional Density Estimation in a High-Dimensional Regression Setting by Izbicki, Rafael, Lee, Ann B.

“…In some applications (e.g., in cosmology and economics), the regression is not adequate to represent the association between a predictor x and a response Z…”
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Converting high-dimensional regression to high-dimensional conditional density estimation by Izbicki, Rafael, B. Lee, Ann

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Non-Gaussianity in the weak lensing correlation function likelihood – implications for cosmological parameter biases by Lin, Chien-Hao, Harnois-Déraps, Joachim, Eifler, Tim, Pospisil, Taylor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Lee, Ann B, Singh, Sukhdeep

“…ABSTRACT We study the significance of non-Gaussianity in the likelihood of weak lensing shear two-point correlation functions, detecting significantly non-zero…”
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Most genetic risk for autism resides with common variation by Gaugler, Trent, Klei, Lambertus, Sanders, Stephan J, Bodea, Corneliu A, Goldberg, Arthur P, Lee, Ann B, Mahajan, Milind, Manaa, Dina, Pawitan, Yudi, Reichert, Jennifer, Ripke, Stephan, Sandin, Sven, Sklar, Pamela, Svantesson, Oscar, Reichenberg, Abraham, Hultman, Christina M, Devlin, Bernie, Roeder, Kathryn, Buxbaum, Joseph D

“…Joseph Buxbaum and colleagues use an epidemiological sample from Sweden to investigate the genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorders. They conclude…”
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Unlocking GOES: A Statistical Framework for Quantifying the Evolution of Convective Structure in Tropical Cyclones by McNeely, Trey, Lee, Ann B., Wood, Kimberly M., Hammerling, Dorit

“…Tropical cyclones (TCs) rank among the most costly natural disasters in the United States, and accurate forecasts of track and intensity are critical for…”
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A SPECTRAL GRAPH APPROACH TO DISCOVERING GENETIC ANCESTRY by Lee, Ann B., Luca, Diana, Roeder, Kathryn

“…Mapping human genetic variation is fundamentally interesting in fields such as anthropology and forensic inference. At the same time, patterns of genetic…”
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Diffusion maps and coarse-graining: a unified framework for dimensionality reduction, graph partitioning, and data set parameterization by Lafon, S., Lee, A.B.

“…We provide evidence that nonlinear dimensionality reduction, clustering, and data set parameterization can be solved within one and the same framework. The…”
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A spectral series approach to high-dimensional nonparametric regression by Lee, Ann B., Izbicki, Rafael

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Prevalence, risk factors, and surveillance patterns for gastric intestinal metaplasia among patients undergoing upper endoscopy with biopsy by Huang, Robert J., Ende, Alexander R., Singla, Anand, Higa, Jennifer T., Choi, Alyssa Y., Lee, Ann B., Whang, Stella G., Gravelle, Kayla, D'Andrea, Samantha, Bang, Sung Jo, Schmidt, Rodney A., Yeh, Matthew M., Hwang, Joo Ha

“…Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) is an important precursor lesion to gastric cancer (GC), the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. There exist…”
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Upper-ocean changes with hurricane-strength wind events: a study using Argo profiles and an ocean reanalysis by Sala, Jacopo, Giglio, Donata, Hu, Addison, Kuusela, Mikael, Wood, Kimberly M, Lee, Ann B

“…As the Earth's climate warms, the intensity and rain rate of tropical cyclones (TCs) is projected to increase. TCs intensify by extracting heat energy from the…”
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Treelets: An Adaptive Multi-Scale Basis for Sparse Unordered Data by Lee, Ann B., Nadler, Boaz, Wasserman, Larry

“…In many modem applications, including analysis of gene expression and text documents, the data are noisy, high-dimensional, and unordered-with no particular…”
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Spatiotemporal methods for estimating subsurface ocean thermal response to tropical cyclones by Hu, Addison J, Kuusela, Mikael, Lee, Ann B, Giglio, Donata, Wood, Kimberly M

“…Tropical cyclones (TCs), driven by heat exchange between the air and sea, pose a substantial risk to many communities around the world. Accurate…”
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Spectral Connectivity Analysis by Lee, Ann B., Wasserman, Larry

“…Spectral kernel methods are techniques for mapping data into a coordinate system that efficiently reveals the geometric structure-in particular, the…”
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