Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide, while depression is highly prevalent in this patient population and has long been regarded as an independent risk ...

Abstract: In order to optimally assign a desired probability distribution to the state of a nonlinear stochastic system, a convex duality approach is proposed to arrive at the associated optimality ...

A probability distribution of a random variable describes how the probabilities are distributed over the possible values of the random variable. A probability distribution shows the likelihood of ...

Interest Rate Probability Distributions Implied by Derivatives Prices is a daily measure of the distribution of future short-term interest rates, calculated from prices of fixed-income derivatives ...

Probability theory is indispensable in computer science: It is at the core of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which require decision making under uncertainty. It is integral to CS theory ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

ABSTRACT: In this study, we utilized data from Transparency International (TI) on 175 countries and from the World Bank (WB) on over 200 countries to develop the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Before the introduction of technology, banking had always been a face-to-face business. Yet even personal interactions have evolved from happening anywhere to meetings in coffee/tea shops and then ...