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Genome-wide prediction of DNase I hypersensitivity using gene expression
(Nature Research, 2017-10-19)We evaluate the feasibility of using a biological sample’s transcriptome to predict its genome-wide regulatory element activities measured by DNase I hypersensitivity (DH). We develop BIRD, Big Data Regression for predicting ... -
Language-independent talker-specificity in first-language and second-language speech production by bilingual talkers: L1 speaking rate predicts L2 speaking rate
(Acoustical Society of America, 2017-01)Second-language (L2) speech is consistently slower than first-language (L1) speech, and L1 speaking rate varies within- and across-talkers depending on many individual, situational, linguistic, and sociolinguistic factors. ... -
An analysis of the organization and operation of selected negro retail business establishments in Mississippi
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The Belief-Function Approach to Aggregating Audit Evidence
(Wiley, 1995)In this article, we present the belief-function approach to aggregating audit evidence. The approach uses an evidential network to represent the structure of audit evidence. In turn, it allows us to treat all types of ... -
Virtual Auditing Agents: The EDGAR Agent Challenge
(Elsevier, 2000-05)Intelligent agents can be used as agents of organizational change. This potential exists in the domain of accounting audit, where much of what is currently done manually in batch mode could be done continuously and on-line. ... -
Structural Analysis of Audit Evidence Using Belief Functions
(Elsevier, 2002-10)This article performs two types of analysis using Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions for evidential reasoning. The first analysis deals with the impact of the structure of audit evidence on the overall belief at ... -
Analytical Formulas for Risk Assessment for a Class of Problems where Risk Depends on Three Interrelated Variables
(Elsevier, 2007-05)We derive general analytical formulas for assessing risks in a problem domain where the risk depends on three interrelated variables. More specifically, we derive general analytical formulas for propagating beliefs in a ... -
An Evidential Reasoning Approach to Sarbanes-Oxley Mandated Internal Control Risk Assessment
(Elsevier, 2009-06)In response to the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and of the release of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Auditing Standard No. 5, this study develops a risk-based evidential reasoning approach ... -
Representation of Interrelationships among Binary Variables under Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions
(Wiley, 2008-03-18)This paper presents an algorithm for developing models under Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions for categorical and 'uncertain' logical relationships among binary variables. We illustrate the use of the algorithm ... -
Assurance on XBRL Instance Document: A Conceptual Framework of Assertions
(Elsevier, 2009-11-23)XBRL stands for extensible business reporting language. It is an XML based computer language for reporting business information. In December 2008, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) voted to ... -
An Introduction to Evidential Reasoning for Decision Making under Uncertainty: Bayesian and Belief Functions Perspectives
(Elsevier, 2010-12-08)The main purpose of this article is to introduce the evidential reasoning approach, a research methodology, for decision making under uncertainty. Bayesian framework and Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions are ... -
A new definition of entropy of belief functions in the Dempster–Shafer theory
(Elsevier, 2017-10-10)We propose a new definition of entropy of basic probability assignments (BPAs) in the Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory of belief functions, which is interpreted as a measure of total uncertainty in the BPA. Our definition is ... -
Inference in Hybrid Bayesian Networks with Nonlinear Deterministic Conditionals.
(Wiley, 2017-03-17)To enable inference in hybrid Bayesian networks (BNs) containing nonlinear deterministic conditional distributions, Cobb and Shenoy in 2005 propose approximating nonlinear deterministic functions by piecewise linear (PL) ... -
Partially linear additive quantile regression in ultra-high dimension
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2016)We consider a flexible semiparametric quantile regression model for analyzing high dimensional heterogeneous data. This model has several appealing features: (1) By considering different conditional quantiles, we may obtain ... -
Senior Executives' IT Management Responsibilities: Serious IT-Related Deficiencies and CEO/CFO Turnover
(University of Minnesota, Management Information Systems Research Center, 2016-09-01)While the information systems scholarly and practice literatures both stress the importance of senior executive engagement with IT management, the recommendations for doing so remain, at best, limited and general. Examining ... -
On Computing Probabilities of Dismissal of 10b-5 Securities Class-Action Cases
(Elsevier, 2017-02)The main goal of this paper is to propose a probability model for computing probabilities of dismissal of 10b-5 securities class-action cases filed in United States Federal district courts. By dismissal, we mean dismissal ... -
Director networks and informed traders
(Elsevier, 2016-04-14)We provide evidence that sophisticated investors like short sellers, option traders, and financial institutions are more informed when trading stocks of companies with more connected board members. For firms with large ... -
Causal Compositional Models in Valuation-Based Systems with Examples in Specific Theories
(Elsevier, 2015-10)We show that Pearl’s causal networks can be described using causal compositional models (CCMs) in the valuationbased systems (VBS) framework. One major advantage of using the VBS framework is that as VBS is a generalization ... -
Compositional Models in Valuation-Based Systems
(Elsevier, 2014-01)Compositional models were initially described for discrete probability theory, and later extended for possibility theory and for belief functions in Dempster–Shafer (D–S) theory of evidence. Valuation-based system (VBS) ... -
Paraguay and MERCOSUR: The Lesser of Two Evils?
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06)This paper examines Paraguay’s experience with MERCOSUR in terms of its impact on economic growth, trade, investment, industrial competitiveness and income distribution. Of particular interest is MERCOSUR’s impact on the ...