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stat.AP2019★ 32 cited

A Continuous-Time Dynamic Choice Measurement Model for Problem-Solving Process Data

Yunxiao Chen

Problem solving has been recognized as a central skill that today's students need to thrive and shape their world. As a result, the measurement of problem-solving competency has re…

q-fin.MF2019★ 9 cited

Simplified stochastic calculus with applications in Economics and Finance

Aleš Černý, Johannes Ruf

The paper introduces a simple way of recording and manipulating general stochastic processes without explicit reference to a probability measure. In the new calculus, operations tr…

cs.LG2019★ 17 cited

A Bayesian/Information Theoretic Model of Bias Learning

Jonathan Baxter

In this paper the problem of learning appropriate bias for an environment of related tasks is examined from a Bayesian perspective. The environment of related tasks is shown to be…

math.CO2019

Successive shortest paths in complete graphs with random edge weights

Stefanie Gerke, Balázs F. Mezei, Gregory B. Sorkin

Consider a complete graph with edge weights drawn independently from a uniform distribution . The weight of the shortest (minimum-weight) path between two given…

econ.EM2019★ 3 cited

Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Non-Stationary Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models

Matteo Barigozzi, Matteo Luciani

This paper considers estimation of large dynamic factor models with common and idiosyncratic trends by means of the Expectation Maximization algorithm, implemented jointly with the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2019★ 84 cited

First-passage and first-hitting times of Levy flights and Levy walks

V. V. Palyulin, G. Blackburn, M. A. Lomholt +4

For both Levy flight and Levy walk search processes we analyse the full distribution of first-passage and first-hitting (or first-arrival) times. These are, respectively, the times…

q-fin.ST2019

Sector Neutral Portfolios: Long memory motifs persistence in market structure dynamics

Jeremy Turiel, Tomaso Aste

We study soft persistence (existence in subsequent temporal layers of motifs from the initial layer) of motif structures in Triangulated Maximally Filtered Graphs (TMFG) generated…

math.CO2019★ 1 cited

Bounding the tripartite-circle crossing number of complete tripartite graphs

Charles Camacho, Silvia Fernández-Merchant, Marija Jelić Milutinović +4

A tripartite-circle drawing of a tripartite graph is a drawing in the plane, where each part of a vertex partition is placed on one of three disjoint circles, and the edges do not…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 3 cited

Detection of gamma-ray transients with wild binary segmentation

Sarah Antier, Kateryna Barynova, Piotr Fryzlewicz +2

In the context of time domain astronomy, we present an offline detection search of gamma-ray transients using a wild binary segmentation analysis called FWBSB targeting both short…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 28 cited

Timing Terminators: Forecasting Sunspot Cycle 25 Onset

Robert J Leamon, Scott W. McIntosh, Sandra C. Chapman +1

Recent research has demonstrated the existence of a new type of solar event, the "terminator." Unlike the Sun's signature events, flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, the terminator…

math.NA2019★ 8 cited

A fixed-point policy-iteration-type algorithm for symmetric nonzero-sum stochastic impulse control games

Diego Zabaljauregui

Nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with impulse controls offer a realistic and far-reaching modelling framework for applications within finance, energy markets, and other ar…

math.PR2019

Pure-jump semimartingales

Aleš Černý, Johannes Ruf

A new integral with respect to an integer-valued random measure is introduced. In contrast to the finite variation integral ubiquitous in semimartingale theory (Jacod and Shiryaev,…

cs.GT2019★ 3 cited

Auction Algorithms for Market Equilibrium with Weak Gross Substitute Demands

Jugal Garg, Edin Husić, László A. Végh

We consider the Arrow--Debreu exchange market model under the assumption that the agents' demands satisfy the weak gross substitutes (WGS) property. We present a simple auction alg…

math.CO2019★ 10 cited

The size-Ramsey number of powers of bounded degree trees

Sören Berger, Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Giulia Satiko Maesaka +4

Given a positive integer , the -colour size-Ramsey number of a graph is the smallest integer such that there exists a graph with edges with the property that,…

math.CO2019★ 3 cited

Uniform Orderings for Generalized Coloring Numbers

Jan van den Heuvel, H. A. Kierstead

The generalized coloring numbers col_r(G) (also denoted by scol_r(G)) and wcol_r(G) of a graph G were introduced by Kierstead and Yang as a generalization of the usual coloring num…

stat.ME2019★ 20 cited

A Note on Exploratory Item Factor Analysis by Singular Value Decomposition

Haoran Zhang, Yunxiao Chen, Xiaoou Li

We revisit a singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm given in Chen et al. (2019b) for exploratory Item Factor Analysis (IFA). This algorithm estimates a multidimensional IFA m…

math.CO2019★ 2 cited

The size-Ramsey number of 3-uniform tight paths

Jie Han, Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Shoham Letzter +2

Given a hypergraph , the size-Ramsey number is the smallest integer such that there exists a graph with edges with the property that in any colouring…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 15 cited

Don't follow the leader: How ranking performance reduces meritocracy

Giacomo Livan

In the name of meritocracy, modern economies devote increasing amounts of resources to quantifying and ranking the performance of individuals and organisations. Rankings send out p…

q-fin.ST2019★ 11 cited

Maximum Entropy approach to multivariate time series randomization

Riccardo Marcaccioli, Giacomo Livan

Natural and social multivariate systems are commonly studied through sets of simultaneous and time-spaced measurements of the observables that drive their dynamics, i.e., through s…

math.CO2019

The independent set problem is FPT for even-hole-free graphs

Edin Husic, Stephan Thomasse, Nicolas Trotignon

The class of even-hole-free graphs is very similar to the class of perfect graphs, and was indeed a cornerstone in the tools leading to the proof of the Strong Perfect Graph Theore…

cs.HC2019★ 4 cited

Peril v. Promise: IoT and the Ethical Imaginaries

Funda Ustek-Spilda, Alison Powell, Irina Shklovski +1

The future scenarios often associated with Internet of Things (IoT) oscillate between the peril of IoT for the future of humanity and the promises for an ever-connected and efficie…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 258 cited

Achieving competitive advantage in academia through early career coauthorship with top scientists

Weihua Li, Tomaso Aste, Fabio Caccioli +1

We quantify the long term impact that the coauthorship with established top-cited scientists has on the career of junior researchers in four different scientific disciplines. Throu…

cs.LO2019★ 23 cited

Dynamic Term-Modal Logics for First-Order Epistemic Planning

Andrés Occhipinti Liberman, Andreas Achen, Rasmus Kræmmer Rendsvig

Many classical planning frameworks are built on first-order languages. The first-order expressive power is desirable for compactly representing actions via schemas, and for specify…

stat.ME2019

Detecting linear trend changes in data sequences

Hyeyoung Maeng, Piotr Fryzlewicz

We propose TrendSegment, a methodology for detecting multiple change-points corresponding to linear trend changes in one dimensional data. A core ingredient of TrendSegment is a ne…