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Representation for the Gauss-Laplace Transmutation
Peng Ding, Joseph K. Blitzstein
Under certain conditions, a symmetric unimodal continuous random variable can be represented as a scale mixture of the standard Normal distribution , i.e., ,…
Bias-Variance and Breadth-Depth Tradeoffs in Respondent-Driven Sampling
Sergiy Nesterko, Joseph Blitzstein
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a link-tracing network sampling strategy for collecting data from hard-to-reach populations, such as injection drug users or individuals at high…
Valued Ties Tell Fewer Lies, II: Why Not To Dichotomize Network Edges With Bounded Outdegrees
Andrew C. Thomas, Joseph K. Blitzstein
Various methods have been proposed for creating a binary version of a complex network with valued ties. Rather than the default method of choosing a single threshold value about wh…
Valued Ties Tell Fewer Lies: Why Not To Dichotomize Network Edges With Thresholds
Andrew C. Thomas, Joseph K. Blitzstein
In order to conduct analyses of networked systems where connections between individuals take on a range of values - counts, continuous strengths or ordinal rankings - a common tech…