Most serious health system reform proposals include a prominent role for states, despite documented variation in costs, delivery systems, and health status among states. As policymakers search for an approach that will reform the health system and minimize inappropriate interstate variation, the experience of nursing home policies and politics in two states--New York and California--can offer u...

Reshef et al. presented a novel measure of dependence the maximal information coefficient (MIC) aimed to capture a wide range of associations between pairs of variables, and a statistical test for independence based on MIC. They defined a concept of equitability and claim that non-equitable methods are less practical for data exploration. By simple power comparisons, we show that this conclusio...

This paper introduces a nonparametric copula-based index for detecting the strength and monotonicity structure of linear and nonlinear statistical dependence between pairs of random variables or stochastic signals. Our index, termed Copula Index for Detecting Dependence and Monotonicity (CIM ), satisfies several desirable properties of measures of association, including Rényi’s properties, the ...

This paper presents a viewpoint on an emerging dichotomy in data science: applications in which predictions of datadriven algorithms are used to support people in making consequential decisions that can have a profound effect on other people’s lives and applications in which data-driven algorithms act autonomously in settings of low consequence and large scale. An example of the first type of a...

In this paper we empirically try to estimate productivity and growth of the world's economies by selected indicators measuring sustainability, equity, and the state of democratic rights and civil liberties. We use models from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature to compare productivity levels in a multiple output setting. This productivity level can then be interpreted as a new human ...

We consider the problem of selecting fair divisions a heterogeneous divisible good among set agents. Recent work (Cohler et al., AAAI 2011) focused on designing algorithms for computing maxsum—social welfare maximizing—allocations under fairness notion envy-freeness. Maxsum allocations can also be found alternative notions such as equitability. In this paper, we examine properties these allocat...

River regularization plays an important role in socio economic development. However, it also modifies the natural flow system of river and its biotic abiotic characteristics, causing significant impacts on rivers. To evaluate macroinvertebrate community caused by dam construction Poxim-Açú River, metrics composition structure macroinvertebrates were analyzed, as well ecological biological trait...

Abstract Periodic deterministic bang–bang dynamical decoupling and the quantum Zeno effect are known to emerge from same physical mechanism. Both concepts based on cycles of strong frequent kicks provoking a subdivision Hilbert space into independent subspaces. However, previous unification results do not capture case random decoupling, which can be advantageous but has an inherently acyclic st...