Contract consistency is important in ensuring the legal validity of contract. In many scenarios, a contract written by filling blanks precompiled form. Due to carelessness, two that should be filled with same (or different) content may incorrectly different same) content. This will result issue inconsistencies, which severely impair Traditional methods address this mainly rely on manual review,...

Numerous recent attempts to identify mediated and moderated effects in child-clinical and pediatric research on child adjustment have been characterized by terminological, conceptual, and statistical inconsistencies. To promote greater clarity, the terms mediating and moderating are defined and differentiated. Recommended statistical strategies that can be used to test for these effects are rev...

In this paper, we propose a novel framework to statistically measure the correlation inconsistency in mobile images for tamper detection. By first sampling a number of blocks at different image locations, we extract a set of derivative weights as features from each block using partial derivative correlation models. Through regularizing the within-image covariance eigenspectrum and performing ei...

Overlay networks can be used to find working paths when direct underlay paths are anomalously slow, e.g. because of a network fault. Overlay paths should not use links that are involved in a fault, so choosing which overlay path to use often requires path monitoring, which introduces an overhead. By using a routing matrix ‘M’ to define which links are used in each path, and sorting the matrix a...

Determining the direction of causal influence from observational data only is essential in many applications, such as the reconstruction of genetic networks from microarray data. As opposed to many probabilistic network inference algorithms which were designed to induce just statistical models of the data, Conditional Independence (CI) based algorithms are theoretically able to infer true causa...