A misclassified size-biased Borel Distribution (MSBBD), where some of the observations corresponding to x = c + 1 are wrongly reported as x = c with probability α, is defined. Various estimation methods like the method of maximum likelihood (ML), method of moments, and the Bayes estimation for the parameters of the MSBB distribution are used. The performance of the estimators are studied using ...

ROC analysis makes it possible to evaluate how well classiiers will perform given certain misclas-siication costs and class distributions. Given a set of classiiers, it also provides a method for constructing a hybrid classiier that optimally uses the available classiiers. Now in some cases it is possible to derive multiple classiiers from a single one, in a cheap way, and such that these class...

Bicircular lift matroids are a class of matroids defined on the edge set of a graph. For a given graph G, the circuits of its bicircular lift matroid are the edge sets of those subgraphs of G that contain at least two cycles, and are minimal with respect to this property. The main result of this paper is a characterization of when two graphs give rise to the same bicircular lift matroid, which ...

Abstract Previous research has shown that algorithmic decisions can reflect gender bias. The increasingly widespread utilization of algorithms in critical decision-making domains (e.g., healthcare or hiring) thus lead to broad and structural disadvantages for women. However, women often experience bias discrimination through human may turn the hope receiving neutral objective evaluations. Acros...

Noise pollution is a major problem in cities around the world. The current methods to assess it neglect to represent the real exposure experienced by the citizens themselves, and therefore could lead to wrong conclusions and a biased representations. In this paper we present a novel approach to monitor noise pollution involving the general public. Using their mobile phones as noise sensors, we ...

A small-biased function is a randomized function whose distribution of truth-tables is small-biased. We demonstrate that known explicit lower bounds on the size of (1) general Boolean formulas, (2) Boolean formulas of fan-in two, (3) de Morgan formulas, as well as (4) correlation lower bounds against small de Morgan formulas apply to small-biased functions. As a consequence, any strongly explic...

To successfully apply RNAi, the very first step is to design functional siRNA or shRNA sequences targeting specific genes. Many characteristics of functional synthetic siRNAs have been identified, but it remains questionable if these characteristics can be equally applied to the design of functional shRNAs. Our three-phase algorithm was developed based on the characteristics of functional siRNA...

A family CL of circuits of a matroid M is a linear class if, given a modular pair of circuits in CL, any circuit contained in the union of the pair is also in CL. The pair (M, CL) can be seen as a matroidal generalization of a biased graph. We introduce and study an OrlikSolomon type algebra determined by (M, CL). If CL is the set of all circuits of M this algebra is the Orlik-Solomon algebra o...

the wild pistachio, pistacia atlantica subsp. mutica, is belonged to mountain of irano-turanian region, and distributed in northwest, northeast, center, east and south of iran. the sexual identification mechanism of this species is unknown and denotation of gender is impossible until flowering. in this study sex ratio of populations of this dioecious shrub was evaluated by several hypothesis co...