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Causal Modelling of Heavy-Tailed Variables and Confounders with Application to River Flow
Olivier C. Pasche, Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Anthony C. Davison
Confounding variables are a recurrent challenge for causal discovery and inference. In many situations, complex causal mechanisms only manifest themselves in extreme events, or tak…
The Tangent Exponential Model
Anthony C. Davison, Nancy Reid
The likelihood function is central to both frequentist and Bayesian formulations of parametric statistical inference, and large-sample approximations to the sampling distributions…
Space Oddity? A Statistical Formulation of Conjunction Assessment
Soumaya Elkantassi, Anthony Davison
Satellite conjunctions involving "near misses" of space objects are becoming increasingly likely. One approach to risk analysis for them involves the computation of the collision p…
Is there a cap on longevity? A statistical review
Léo R. Belzile, Anthony C. Davison, Jutta Gampe +2
There is sustained and widespread interest in understanding the limit, if any, to the human lifespan. Apart from its intrinsic and biological interest, changes in survival in old a…