3 papers
cs.CL2024
From Narratives to Numbers: Valid Inference Using Language Model Predictions from Verbal Autopsy Narratives
Shuxian Fan, Adam Visokay, Kentaro Hoffman +4
In settings where most deaths occur outside the healthcare system, verbal autopsies (VAs) are a common tool to monitor trends in causes of death (COD). VAs are interviews with a su…
stat.ME2024
Dempster-Shafer P-values: Thoughts on an Alternative Approach for Multinomial Inference
Kentaro Hoffman, Kai Zhang, Tyler McCormick +1
In this paper, we demonstrate that a new measure of evidence we developed called the Dempster-Shafer p-value which allow for insights and interpretations which retain most of the s…
stat.ME2024
Do We Really Even Need Data?
Kentaro Hoffman, Stephen Salerno, Awan Afiaz +2
As artificial intelligence and machine learning tools become more accessible, and scientists face new obstacles to data collection (e.g. rising costs, declining survey response rat…