Innovative data inference

Innovative Statistical Inference for Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery

Inference on the Sources of Innovative Inefficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-parametric Bootstrapping Inference on the Sources of Innovative Inefficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Semi-parametric Bootstrapping

Using the US states plus the District of Columbia, output-oriented innovative efficiency scores are computed using data envelopment analysis (DEA) where total patent counts serve as the measure of innovative output and industry and academic research and development expenditures, and numbers of research scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral positions are inputs. In the second stage the...

Inference for Clustered Data

This article introduces clusteff, a new Stata command for checking the severity of cluster heterogeneity in cluster robust analyses. Cluster heterogeneity can cause a size distortion leading to underrejection of the null hypothesis. Carter, Schnepel, and Steigerwald (2015) develop the effective number of clusters to reflect a reduction in the degrees of freedom, thereby mirroring the distortion...

Computational Neuroscience Breakthroughs through Innovative Data Management

Simulations have become key in many scientific disciplines to better understand natural phenomena. Neuroscientists, for example, build and simulate increasingly fine-grained models (including subcellular details, e.g., neurotransmitter) of the neocortex to understand the mechanisms causing brain diseases and to test new treatments in-silico. The sheer size and, more importantly, the level of de...

Innovative Data Collection Strategies in Qualitative Research

This article provides an innovative meta-framework comprising strategies designed to guide qualitative data collection in the 21st century. We present a meta-framework comprising strategies for collecting data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and documents/material culture. We present a template for collecting nonverbal data during interviews and discuss the concept of debriefing th...