Traditionally, insights into neural computation have been furnished by averaged firing rates from many stimulus repetitions or trials. We pursue an analysis of neural response variance to unveil neural computations that cannot be discerned from measures of average firing rate. We analyzed single-neuron recordings from the lateral intraparietal area (LIP), during a perceptual decision-making tas...

The slope and curvature of the survivorship function reflect the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex, socioeconomic status, or other covariates. But within-group variance is large even in narrowly defined groups, and changes substantial...

Channel-state-dependent (CSD) radio-resource scheduling algorithms for wireless message transport using a framed ALOHA-reservation access protocol are presented. In future wireless systems that provide Mbps-class high-speed wireless links using high frequencies, burst packet errors, which last a certain number of packets in time, would cause serious performance degradation. CSD resource schedul...

Fisher's concepts of average effects and average excesses are at the core of the quantitative genetics theory. Their meaning and relationship have regularly been discussed and clarified. Here we develop a generalized set of one locus two-allele orthogonal contrasts for average excesses and average effects, based on the concept of the effective gene content of alleles. Our developments help unde...

But what about high dimensions? What is the density of the points near the mean? And how far away is the average point from it’s component mean? Let us address this questions for a single isotropic Gaussian distribution. First, note that E[‖x‖] = nσ. Hence, on average, we expect a point to be rather far from mean, but let us quantify this. Recall, that the distribution of ‖x‖ is a χn distributi...