Empirical studies have shown that decision makers do not usually treat probabilities linearly. Instead, people tend to overweight small probabilities and underweight large probabilities. One way to model such distortions in decision making under risk is through a probability weighting function. We present a nonparametric estimation procedure for assessing the probability weighting function and ...

Acquisition-weighting improves the localization of MRI experiments. An approach to acquisition-weighting in a purely phase-encoded experiment is presented that is based on a variation of the sampling density in k-space. In contrast to conventional imaging or to accumulation-weighting, where k-space is sampled with uniform increments, density-weighting varies the distance between neighboring sam...

Many of the conventional similarity methods assume that molecular fragments that do not relate to biological activity carry the same weight as the important ones. One possible approach to this problem is to use the Bayesian inference network (BIN), which models molecules and reference structures as probabilistic inference networks. The relationships between molecules and reference structures in...

In this paper, we propose a method how to construct density weighting functions from Copulas. The notion of Copula was introduced by A. Sklar in 1959. A Copula is a dependence function to construct a bivariate distribution function that links joint distributions to their marginals. Other forms of dependence function, based on density weighing functions, have also been developed. The proposed me...

in this paper, a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-ii (nsga-ii) based approach is presented for distribution system reconfiguration. in contrast to the conventional ga based methods, the proposed approach does not require weighting factors for conversion of multi-objective function into an equivalent single objective function. in order to illustrate the performance of the proposed method,...

In this paper, a Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) based approach is presented for distribution system reconfiguration. In contrast to the conventional GA based methods, the proposed approach does not require weighting factors for conversion of multi-objective function into an equivalent single objective function. In order to illustrate the performance of the proposed method,...

Many developmental processes in the life sciences, ecology and even economics depend strongly on environmental conditions occurring a bounded time interval, results often far later. Examples are as diverse plant phenology, grapewine maturation, diapause induction so on. The method proposed here, aims at detecting quickly such effects. basic idea is to regress recorded of series replications pro...