• Probabilistic models of floating point and logarithmic arithmetic are constructed using assumptions with both theoretical and empirical justification. (benfordonline.net)
  • The present paper examines the extent to which existing empirical specifications and interpretations of parameter estimates are compromised by reliance on either of these assumptions. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The article is comprehensive, and expounds on all aspects from the new extended formal task (Robust Markov Game), via algorithms to their theoretical convergence and empirical exposition of performance. (nips.cc)
  • An explorative mixed methods study on beliefs regarding the justification of compulsory classroom music education Abstract The publication (doctoral thesis) is structured in an introduction, a theoretical part, an empirical study and first conclusions. (researchgate.net)
  • Since it is recognised that theoretical clarification has only a limited influence on practice, the justification convictions of interested persons with regard to school music lessons will then be examined in an empirical study. (researchgate.net)
  • In contrast with Rescher, our work here began with the theoretical model, which made a prediction largely validated by empirical data. (ox.ac.uk)
  • An advantage to having a general theoretical model is that we can understand which features are key to generating the behaviour, and therefore we can reasonably predict when the behaviour will extend to fields where we do not yet have empirical support. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The combination of these contributions will deliver fruitful new theoretical perspectives, include new experiments, and novel ideas, whereby all proposals are strongly anchored in up-to-date empirical research. (tsc2019-interlaken.ch)
  • Theoretical justification for this framework is provided and is based on an asymptotic setting in which the sampling interval of high frequency returns goes to zero as the sampling span goes to infinity. (duke.edu)
  • However, it might be better to give the theoretical guarantee of the discrepancy between the learned policy and true policy as well as the equilibrium guarantee by using such an optimization framework (MADDPG). (nips.cc)
  • In the second title we develop the theoretical framework underlying the present investigation, the conceptual framework and the assumptions made. (edu.pe)
  • Investigators who strive to specify the structural and psychological processes that regulate people's behavior lament the fact that too many interventions are not guided by a theoretical framework that specifies how they are supposed to elicit health behavior change. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The justification for the implicit assumption that it is impossible to design a tax reduction without costs is more practical than theoretical. (ucp.pt)
  • The programme theory is the often implicit set of assumptions that steers the choice and design of an intervention. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Knowledge and understanding · be able to show awareness and apply, in oral and written form, the methodological perspectives and approaches presented in the course, including their underlying assumptions. (lu.se)
  • The course aims to present the key schools of theoretical and methodological thought in the social sciences. (lu.se)
  • accompanied by a range of more detailed guidance on specific aspects of the research process,4-8 several important conceptual, methodological and theoretical developments have taken place since 2006. (cancercentrum.se)
  • The realization that our citizenship is a product of developments and activities in all three levels has theoretical, analytical and practical implications. (degruyter.com)
  • This is an essential preliminary step as it can be used to justify the assumptions made by statistical analyses. (nature.com)
  • In this paper we conduct a detailed theoretical analysis on the estimation of arbitrary moments from a data set that has been anonymized by means of the IR method. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • This theory provides the justification for applying standard statistical estimation techniques to the anonymized data without having to correct for a possible bias caused by anonymization. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • More precisely, we will argue that under some assumptions about the distribution of problems in the area, we can expect to find approximately logarithmic returns to resources ex post as well as ex ante . (ox.ac.uk)
  • Algorithms for causal discovery identify patterns of conditional independencies (CI) with theoretical justification for refuting candidate models that are unlikely to have generated the observed data. (nature.com)
  • En el segundo título desarrollamos el marco teórico en que se sustenta la presente investigación, el marco conceptual y las hipótesis planteadas. (edu.pe)
  • For each of the aims, we provide theoretical and simulation-based justification for the proposed approach and apply the methods to estimate cancer patient cost trajectories from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database. (tmc.edu)
  • To do this, we have structured this work follows: The first title is referred to the approach of the problem, its background, objectives, justification and identification of variables. (edu.pe)
  • He is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (Brill, The Netherlands, 2013), co-author (with Harry H. Haladjian) of Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention (MIT Press, 2015) and co-author (with Abrol Fairweather) of Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2017). (tsc2019-interlaken.ch)
  • We adopt a functional analytic approach which require neither specific assumptions on the class of priors $\mathcal{P}$ nor on the structure of the state space. (academic-quant-news.com)
  • Another thing that is common in typical convolutional networks these days is batch normalization, which is also not discussed, but might help justify the extra assumptions needed to show that the main results hold using ReLU nonlinearities. (neurips.cc)
  • According to this account, guilt involves the feeling of being unable to justify ourselves to others, and we lack self-justification when we (however blamelessly) stand on the positive side of an undesirable asymmetry with them. (philarchive.org)
  • An overview of selected studies ( Supplementary material 1 ) shows a large variety of research designs and theoretical approaches. (frontiersin.org)
  • The first part will cover mixed methods research design issues, theoretical assumptions, and justifications for mixed methods. (ipsa.org)
  • After an introduction that discusses the author's own experiences as a research impulse as well as his own position on the research question and in the literature, chapters 2 to 5 focus on theoretical aspects of the legitimation of music as well as the presentation of possible polarities. (researchgate.net)
  • Based on considerations of how a search for consensus on the justification of compulsory music lessons can take place, the research question is clarified, and the study design is developed from this. (researchgate.net)
  • Assumptions based on previous research in selected populations were taken to support the simulation. (who.int)
  • analysis of theoretical constructs that leads to the questioning of existing models and to the elaboration of hypotheses for further research. (bvsalud.org)
  • Research communication should clarify what methods and assumptions underpin the research findings and research evaluations, as well as the associated uncertainty aspects. (lu.se)
  • Research results are always affected by varying degrees of uncertainty depending, for example, on the method, research design, data, or theoretical assumptions used. (lu.se)
  • Daniel provided critical assistance with the mapping, El en Dexter, Uchechi Durunna and Ei- leen Henderson contributed important research assistance, and Lina Wal enberg provided assistance with translations. (lu.se)
  • Besides, they propose a new formalization of Nash Equilibrium and give it a theoretical guarantee of convergence. (nips.cc)
  • The theoretical analysis of convergence improves the soundness of this method. (nips.cc)
  • For this method, we prove convergence of the optimization algorithm under basic assumptions. (studylib.net)
  • We prove that, under analytic assumptions, sparsifying gradients by magnitude with local error correction provides convergence guarantees, for both convex and non-convex smooth objectives, for data-parallel SGD. (deepai.org)
  • Causal inference via Mendelian randomization requires making strong assumptions about horizontal pleiotropy, where genetic instruments are connected to the outcome not only through the exposure. (nature.com)
  • From the perspective of theory, the course focuses on issues such as the nature of justification in social inquiry, the distinction between causal explanation and interpretative understanding, the role of language in social inquiry, the historical and philosophical meaning of science, and the importance of ethical and normative questions in the social sciences. (lu.se)
  • It is what programme designers have in mind as assumptions and objectives when designing the programme. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Empirically, the essay shows that inference on risk-neutral parameters becomes much more conservative once the assumption of identification is relaxed. (duke.edu)
  • It asserts that P=NP is the more conservative assumption, with no reasons given. (stackexchange.com)
  • This paper will enumerate the theoretical assumptions that are justifications of these expectations. (motherservice.org)
  • The paper introduces the notion of effective receptive-field size in convnets, showing that it grows far slower with depth than the theoretical receptive field size growth one usually thinks of. (neurips.cc)
  • In this paper, I argue against this assumption. (philarchive.org)
  • But neither assumption is realistic. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • When the standard rationality assumption is replaced with a more realistic, bounded rationality assumption, liability rules no longer support exchange efficiency. (harvard.edu)
  • So, for Aim 2, we developed a flexible model to address further challenges such as heteroscedasticity without imposing a cost data distributional assumption. (tmc.edu)
  • To this end, greater advantage needs to be taken of the opportunities that interventions afford for theory-testing and, moreover, the data generated by these activities need to stimulate and inform efforts to revise, refine, or reject theoretical principles. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some of the theoretical results are somewhat buried in the discussion, and it would be clearer to lift them out and present them as propositions/lemmas/theorems etc so that the assumptions and conclusions are separated from the justification. (neurips.cc)
  • Yet, this family of methods currently has no theoretical justification. (deepai.org)
  • A review of surveys conducted to date reveals considerable variation in both the choice and use of survey methods and in the assumptions made in the analysis and interpretation of findings. (who.int)
  • We demonstrate that, under standard portfolio theory assumptions, the answer to the latter question is strikingly unequivocal: on average, the recovery spans three times the period involved in accumulating the maximum quantile loss for a given confidence level. (risk.net)
  • Some questions I have about the analysis: * The authors do not seem to discuss the multiple channel case of the problem, and it's not obvious to me whether the same theoretical arguments would hold for this setting. (neurips.cc)
  • This is largely premised on two assumptions: (1) overreach would result in regulatory chilling that could limit investment and (2) regulating investment inflows would limit their potential economic impact. (lu.se)
  • Rescher also gives one theoretical model as a possible explanation for this behaviour: arguing that it is based on the limits of instrumentation. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In chapter 2, the question of theoretical aspects for the justification and legitimisation of music education in schools is raised. (researchgate.net)
  • Starting with the question of what legitimation is in the first place and how this is reflected in a curriculum as a political framing (historical and current processes as well as the tension between the functions of legitimation and orientation are illuminated), theoretical justifications from the field of music education discourse are unfolded along three selected attempts at systematisation (Ott 1979, Spychiger 1995, Kaiser 2018). (researchgate.net)
  • Chapter 5 deals with the theoretical clarification of polarities, primarily on the question of the purpose of school music lessons, which shape the subject didactic discourse. (researchgate.net)
  • Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for theoretical computer scientists and researchers in related fields. (stackexchange.com)
  • The justification of these assumptions resolves open questions in Hamming (1970) and Bustoz et al. (benfordonline.net)
  • By lowering unemployment, bosses have to raise wages and this draws unemployed people into work (note the assumption that unemployment is voluntary). (linuxistsuper.de)
  • Why do computer scientists on the whole work under the assumption that P ≠ NP? (stackexchange.com)
  • Why do number theorists work under the assumption that the Riemann hypothesis is true? (stackexchange.com)
  • We provide a theoretical justification as to why investment firms typically set less strict stop-out rules for PMs with higher Sharpe ratios, despite the fact that they should be expected to deliver a superior performance. (risk.net)
  • Theoretical and practical innovations are needed if we are to advance efforts to persuade and enable people to make healthy changes in their behavior. (biomedcentral.com)
  • What is the theoretical justification for property rule protection? (bepress.com)
  • The latter perspective contends that neoliberalism is not only vacuous but has also become so politically charged that it serves as little more than a polemical tool for theoretical and political smear campaigns waged with denunciatory intentions. (sup.org)
  • Quantitative studies seeking to generate more comprehensive evidence use other theoretical concepts like interdependencies between job characteristics and personality traits ( Kohn and Schooler, 1982 ) or criteria influencing discrepancy and congruence experience ( Heinzer and Reichenbach, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The normative theory or action model contains the rationale and justification of the programme [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In theory-driven evaluation, the results of the evaluation are formulated as an improved programme theory and as such incorporated into the existing body of theoretical and programme knowledge. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Call 'radical moral theorizing' the project of developing a moral theory that not only tries to conform to our existing moral intuitions, but also manifests various theoretical virtues: consistency, simplicity, explanatory depth, and so on. (philarchive.org)
  • In both cases, these efforts have targeted improving how theoretical principles are applied and, in doing so, have relied on the assumption that current theories of health behavior are useful and productive. (biomedcentral.com)
  • An article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives recently outlined the theoretical justifications for taxing sugary drinks. (iea.org.uk)
  • either you have cross-disciplinary (software studies, etc.) and they do not (or very little) (or through the poetics, not the aesthetics) address source code directly, or you have computer science and they only address it in terms of their own particular practice, sometimes reaching out to "literary" or "beautiful", but without extensive theoretical backing. (enframed.net)
  • Other than this, this topic has been discussed at several other places, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Reasons_to_believe_P_.E2.89.A0_NP or https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/conventional-wisdom-and-pnp/ . (stackexchange.com)
  • The authors write with clarity and, if their assumptions are correct, the economics is sound. (iea.org.uk)
  • We show that classical moment estimators remain both consistent and asymptotically normal under relatively weak assumptions. (uni-muenchen.de)