Search Results - "Wyner, Abraham J"

Entropy-Based Strategies for Multi-Bracket Pools by Brill, Ryan S, Wyner, Abraham J, Barnett, Ian J

“…Much work in the parimutuel betting literature has discussed estimating event outcome probabilities or developing optimal wagering strategies, particularly for…”
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Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Debt Accrues in Mice Exposed to Volatile Anesthetics by PICK, Jeremy, YIHAN CHEN, MOORE, Jason T, YI SUN, WYNER, Abraham J, FRIEDMAN, Eliot B, KELZ, Max B

“…General anesthesia has been likened to a state in which anesthetized subjects are locked out of access to both rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and wakefulness…”
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Hypnotic Hypersensitivity to Volatile Anesthetics and Dexmedetomidine in Dopamine β-Hydroxylase Knockout Mice by HU, Frances Y, HANNA, George M, WEI HAN, MARDINI, Feras, THOMAS, Steven A, WYNER, Abraham J, KELZ, Max B

“…Multiple lines of evidence suggest that the adrenergic system can modulate sensitivity to anesthetic-induced immobility and anesthetic-induced hypnosis as…”
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DAF-16/FOXO Regulates Homeostasis of Essential Sleep-like Behavior during Larval Transitions in C. elegans by Driver, Robert J., Lamb, Annesia L., Wyner, Abraham J., Raizen, David M.

“…Sleep homeostasis, which refers to the maintenance of sleep amount or depth following sleep deprivation, indicates that sleep and sleep-like states serve…”
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YULE'S "NONSENSE CORRELATION" SOLVED by Ernst, Philip A., Shepp, Larry A., Wyner, Abraham J.

“…In this paper, we resolve a longstanding open statistical problem. The problem is to mathematically prove Yule's 1926 empirical finding of "nonsense…”
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A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE PROXIES: ARE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES OVER THE LAST 1000 YEARS RELIABLE? by McShane, Blakeley B., Wyner, Abraham J.

“…Predicting historic temperatures based on tree rings, ice cores, and other natural proxies is a difficult endeavor. The relationship between proxies and…”
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Novel use of a virtual driving assessment to classify driver skill at the time of licensure by Walshe, Elizabeth A., Elliott, Michael R., Romer, Daniel, Cheng, Shukai, Curry, Allison E., Seacrist, Tom, Oppenheimer, Natalie, Wyner, Abraham J., Grethlein, David, Gonzalez, Alexander K., Winston, Flaura K.

“…•A population-based analysis of 33,249 virtual driving assessments of new drivers at the time of licensure revealed 20 Skill Clusters that were then grouped…”
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Licensing Examination and Crash Outcomes Postlicensure in Young Drivers by Walshe, Elizabeth A, Romer, Daniel, Wyner, Abraham J, Cheng, Shukai, Elliott, Michael R, Zhang, Robert, Gonzalez, Alexander K, Oppenheimer, Natalie, Winston, Flaura K

“…Despite US graduated driver licensing laws, young novice driver crash rates remain high. Study findings suggest comprehensive license policy that mandates…”
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Assessing REM sleep in mice using video data by McShane, Blakeley B, Galante, Raymond J, Biber, Michael, Jensen, Shane T, Wyner, Abraham J, Pack, Allan I

“…Assessment of sleep and its substages in mice currently requires implantation of chronic electrodes for measurement of electroencephalogram (EEG) and…”
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Statistical Learning With Time Series Dependence: An Application to Scoring Sleep in Mice by McShane, Blakeley B, Jensen, Shane T, Pack, Allan I, Wyner, Abraham J

“…We develop methodology that combines statistical learning methods with generalized Markov models, thereby enhancing the former to account for time series…”
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Variable Length Markov Chains by Buhlmann, Peter, Wyner, Abraham J.

“…We study estimation in the class of stationary variable length Markov chains (VLMC) on a finite space. The processes in this class are still Markovian of high…”
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Bayesball: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Evaluating Fielding in Major League Baseball by Jensen, Shane T., Shirley, Kenneth E., Wyner, Abraham J.

“…The use of statistical modeling in baseball has received substantial attention recently in both the media and academic community. We focus on a relatively…”
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Assessing REM Sleep in Mice Using Video Data by McShane, Blakeley B., Galante, Raymond J., Biber, Michael, Jensen, Shane T., Wyner, Abraham J., Pack, Allan I.

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Comment: Boosting Algorithms: Regularization, Prediction and Model Fitting by Buja, Andreas, Mease, David, Wyner, Abraham J.

“…The authors are doing the readers of Statistical Science a true service with a well-written and up-to-date overview of boosting that originated with the…”
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Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of hitting performance in baseball by Jensen, Shane T., McShane, Blakeley B., Wyner, Abraham J.

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Universal codes for finite sequences of integers drawn from a monotone distribution by Foster, D.P., Stine, R.A., Wyner, A.J.

“…We offer two noiseless codes for blocks of integers X/sup n/ = (X/sub 1/, ..., X/sub n/). We provide explicit bounds on the relative redundancy that are valid…”
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The redundancy and distribution of the phrase lengths of the fixed-database Lempel-Ziv algorithm by Wyner, A.J.

“…The fixed-database version of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm closely resembles many versions that appear in practice. We ascertain several key asymptotic properties…”
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More on Recurrence and Waiting Times by Wyner, Abraham J.

“…Let X = {Xn: n = 1,2,...} be a discrete valued stationary ergodic process distributed according to probability P. Let Zn 1= {Z1, Z2,..., Zn} be an independent…”
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Rejoinder by McShane, Blakeley B., Jensen, Shane T., Pack, Allan I., Wyner, Abraham J.

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Rejoinder by McShane, Blakeley B., Jensen, Shane T., Pack, Allan I., Wyner, Abraham J.

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