In the past few years, much attention has been given to the development of neurophysiological methods of analyzing social interactions between subjects in response to natural stimuli presented in videos. This article describes a methodological approach for assessing similarities, and differences in how videos are perceived by different subjects based on their phasic electrodermal response (EDR)...

Sliced inverse regression and principal Hessian directions (Li, 1991, 1992) aim to reduce the dimensionality of regression problems. An important step in the method is the determination of a suitable dimension. While statistical tests based on the nullity eigenvalues are usually suggested, we here focus on the quality of the estimation of the eeective dimension reduction (edr) spaces. Essential...

where POPt21 is the total population in the previous year; ADR t and EDR t are, respectively, the actual and expected death rates in year t ; and ABR t and EBR t are, respectively, the actual and expected birth rates in year t. Expected death and birth rates are those that would have prevailed if there had been no famine. In other words, the difference between ADR t and EDR t is an increased de...

In this paper, we consider regression models with a Hilbert-space-valued predictor and a scalar response, where the response depends on the predictor only through a finite number of projections. The linear subspace spanned by these projections is called the effective dimension reduction (EDR) space. To determine the dimensionality of the EDR space, we focus on the leading principal component sc...

This paper proposes a surrounding word sense model (SWSM) that uses the distribution of word senses that appear near ambiguous words for unsupervised all-words word sense disambiguation in Japanese. Although it was inspired by the topic model, ambiguous Japanese words tend to have similar topics since coarse semantic polysemy is less likely to occur than that in Western languages as Japanese us...

A key question for healthcare is how to operationalize the vision of the Learning Healthcare System, in which electronic health record data become a continuous information source for quality assurance and research. This project presents an initial, ontology-based, method for secondary use of electronic dental record (EDR) data. We defined a set of dental clinical research questions; constructed...

In this paper we describe a word clustering method for class-based n-gram model. The measurement for clustering is the entropy on a corpus di erent from the corpus for n-gram model estimation. The search method is based on the greedy algorithm. We applied this method to a Japanese EDR corpus and English Penn Treebank corpus. The perplexities of word-based n-gram model on EDR corpus and Penn Tre...

(By measurement we mean all variables of a theoretical relation that determine the length have been quantitatively observed, no ROMs.) The skew above the electron skin depth of the scale length population determined an average scale length of the ‘‘EDRs’’ 80% higher than the upper bound stated in the ‘‘EDR’’ study’s abstract. This situation contributes another average multiplicative enhancement...

Two studies with the same goal, but different instruments, investigated correlation between basic personality traits and electrodermal reactivity to aversive visual stimuli. Study 1 focused on Five Factor Model traits, while in 2, we HEXACO model, an additional trait, Disintegration. In 1, emotional was expressed using Polyscore, a composite polygraph measure which response (EDR) had largest we...