A new machine learning system, INNER, is presented in this paper. The system starts out from a collection of training examples; some of them are inflated generalizing their description so as to obtain a first draft of classification rules. An optimization stage, borrowed from our previous system, Fan, is then applied to return the final set of rules. The main goal of INNER, besides its high lev...

Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than the procedure of science. What I call the “null ritual” consists of three steps: (1) set up a statistical null hypothesis, but do not specify your own hypothesis nor any alternative hypothesis, (2) use the ...

Certain recently reported statistical regularities relating to the dispersion of firms' growth rates have begun to attract attention among IO economists. These relationships take the form of power law or scaling relationships and this has led to suggestions that the underlying mechanisms which drive these relationships may have some interesting analogies with the mechanisms which drive scaling ...

This response to the CEPT report was prepared by Melanie Campbell and is submitted on behalf of the Status of Women and Equity Committee (SWEC), a subcommittee of the Faculty Association of UWaterloo (FAUW). SWEC appreciates the substantial work of the CEPT committee, including broad consultation with the campus community and the inclusion of several major concerns. We commend CEPT for noting t...

Previous research has shown that the Spanish subjunctive is a vulnerable mood in the process of acquisition for adult heritage speakers. Specifically, the subjunctive use in optional contexts tends to be more prone to simplification (i.e. in adjectival clauses). This subjunctive emerges in monolingual Spanish-speaking children as early as two years of age and reaches more adultlike development ...

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY This annotated bibliography provides an overview of my scholarly work. I prepared it to guide interested colleagues and collaborators—and even more importantly, potential colleagues and collaborators—through the seeming non-linearity of my interests, my scholarship, and my career. I prepared the first draft of this memo in the early 1990s, when much of the early material ...

The first draft of this case was prepared by Jane Seymour and Molly Kinder; significant contributions to the current version were made by Bruce Benton. as in a prominent square in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, visitors see a distinctive statue of a child leading a blind man—a symbolic reminder to passersby of the part each partner played in the control of one of Africa’s most devastating diseases....

This is the final paper in the series [18], [19], [20], [21] that establishes global regularity for two-dimensional wave maps into hyperbolic targets. In this paper we establish the remaining claims required for this statement, namely a divisible perturbation theory, and a means of synthesising solutions for frequencydelocalised, spatially-dispersed, or spatially-delocalised data out of solutio...

Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of the compensation paid. In particular, because the degree of risk aversion ought to decrease with income, people should appreciate a small chance of a subst...

This report gives an overview of two recent events on the validation and verification of Knowledge-Based Systems, namely EUROVAV’97 and AAAI-97 workshop on this topic. In order to give an integrated view of current research issues in this field, we have organised this report along thematical lines, unifying the reports of the two separate meetings. Our report focuses on the trends that we think...