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Mean first passage times of higher-dimensional velocity jump processes
Maria R. D'Orsogna, Alan E. Lindsay, Thomas Hillen
First passage phenomena arise across physics, biology, and finance when stochastic processes first reach a threshold, triggering downstream events. Examples include the irreversibl…
First passage times to T cell activation
Tony Wong, Ikchang Cho, Maria R. D'Orsogna +1
Effective recognition of foreign antigens by the adaptive immune system relies on T cells being activated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in lymph nodes. Here, diffusing T cells…
Efficient Portfolio Selection through Preference Aggregation with Quicksort and the Bradley--Terry Model
Yurun Ge, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou +1
How to allocate limited resources to projects that will yield the greatest long-term benefits is a problem that often arises in decision-making under uncertainty. For example, orga…
Aggregating multiple test results to improve medical decision-making
Lucas Böttcher, Maria R. D'Orsogna, Tom Chou
Gathering observational data for medical decision-making often involves uncertainties arising from both type I (false positive)and type II (false negative) errors. In this work, we…
A knapsack for collective decision-making
Yurun Ge, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou +1
Collective decision-making is the process through which diverse stakeholders reach a joint decision. Within societal settings, one example is participatory budgeting, where constit…
A probabilistic model of relapse in drug addiction
Sayun Mao, Tom Chou, Maria D'Orsogna
More than 60% of individuals recovering from substance use disorder relapse within one year. Some will resume drug consumption even after decades of abstinence. The cognitive and p…