Abstract Economics and social science research often require analyzing datasets of sensitive personal information at fine granularity, with models fit to small subsets the data. Unfortunately, such fine-grained analysis can easily reveal individual information. We study regression algorithms that satisfy differential privacy , a constraint which guarantees an algorithm’s output reveals little a...

We study random design linear regression with no assumptions on the distribution of covariates and a heavy-tailed response variable. In this distribution-free setting, we show that boundedness conditional second moment given is necessary sufficient condition for achieving nontrivial guarantees. As starting point, prove an optimal version classical in-expectation bound truncated least squares es...

OBJECTIVE The association between biochemical markers and left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with myocardial infarction was not completely studied. Our goal is to study the association between biochemical markers and left ventricular dysfunction in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction. METHODS With an observational and prospective design we included patients with...

This paper addresses the issue of incorporating a digital elevation model into the mapping of Ž . annual and monthly erosivity values in the Algarve region Portugal . Besides linear regression of erosivity against elevation, three geostatistical algorithms are introduced: simple kriging with Ž . Ž . varying local means SKlm , kriging with an external drift KED and colocated cokriging. Cross val...

Hydrologic and ecologic studies in mountainous terrain are sensitive to the temporal and spatial distribution of precipitation. In this study a geostatistical model, Auto-Searched Orographic and Atmospheric Effects Detrended Kriging (ASOADeK), is introduced to map mountain precipitation using only precipitation gauge data. The ASOADeK model considers both precipitation spatial covariance and or...

Rapid expansion of Torreya forests in the mountainous region in Zhejiang Province in the past three decades has produced many environmental problems such as soil erosion and poor water quality, requiring an update of its spatial distribution in a timely way. However, to date there are no suitable approaches available for mapping Torreya forest distribution, especially the new Torreya plantation...

klinkenberg permeability is an important parameter in tight gas reservoirs. there are conventional methods for determining it, but these methods depend on core permeability. cores are few in number, but well logs are usually accessible for all wells and provide continuous information. in this regard, regression methods have been used to achieve reliable relations between log readings and klinke...

Two-weekly AVHRR images were used to examine spatial patterns of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and their relationships with environmental variables for moist acidic tundra (MAT) and moist non-acidic tundra (MNT) along two latitudinal transects in northern Alaska. The NDVI database was derived from a 5-yr time series (1995-1999) of two-weekly AVHRR composites for Alaska. A di...