4 papers
Raking mortality rates across cause, population group and geography with uncertainty quantification
Ariane Ducellier, Alexander Hsu, Parkes Kendrick +5
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is the single largest and most detailed scientific effort ever conducted to quantify levels and trends in heal…
WENDY: Covariance Dynamics Based Gene Regulatory Network Inference
Yue Wang, Peng Zheng, Yu-Chen Cheng +2
Determining gene regulatory network (GRN) structure is a central problem in biology, with a variety of inference methods available for different types of data. For a widely prevale…
Robust Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Peng Zheng, Nahom Worku, Marlena Bannick +4
Benchmarking tools, including stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), data envelopment analysis (DEA), and its stochastic extension (StoNED) are core tools in economics used to estimat…
Corrected Correlation Estimates for Meta-Analysis
Alexander Johnson-Vázquez, Alexander W. Hsu, Peng Zheng +1
Meta-analysis allows rigorous aggregation of estimates and uncertainty across multiple studies. When a given study reports multiple estimates, such as log odds ratios (ORs) or log…