Almost every person has to deal with transgressions committed by a romantic partner and faces their negative psychological outcomes, coping strategies might be key understanding post-transgression dynamics forgiveness. We tested the construct validity of Inventory Strategies for Coping Partner's Transgression which include emotion (E-FCS), problem (P-FCS), meaning-focused (M-FCS) scales. Result...

David Bryant University of Otago, New Zealand Phylogenetics with Nets and a Lasso Joint work with Alethea Rea The (positive) lasso is a widely used method in statistics which selects variables and improves least squares estimates. The key idea is to find the best non-negative least squares estimate min β≥0 ‖Xβ − y‖2 while slapping on the constraint ‖β‖1 ≤ λ. Increasing λ gives (usually) solutio...