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Despite Having Small Brains Giraffes Use Statistical Inferences, New Study Finds

A new study reveals that giraffes can use statistical inferences to predict the likelihood of receiving carrot slices rather than zucchini slices, Phys.org reports. According to researchers, this ...
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Scalable statistical inference for averaged implicit stochastic gradient descent

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) provides a scalable way to compute parameter estimates in applications involving large-scale data or streaming data. As an alternative version, averaged implicit SGD ...
Forbes

Parrots Make Predictions Based On Statistical Probabilities

All of the captive kea were given the opportunity to participate in the sampling task, but not all of them were interested. (Credit: Amalia Bastos.) Those remarkable kea are at it again: now the ...
eLife

Virtual Brain Inference (VBI), a flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on whole-brain models

The Virtual Brain Inference (VBI) toolkit enables efficient, accurate, and scalable Bayesian inference over whole-brain network models, improving parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and ...
Massey University

Advanced Statistical Inference

Properties of estimators: unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency and sufficiency. Methods of estimation with particular emphasis given to the method of maximum likelihood. Hypothesis testing and ...
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Likelihood Inferences on Semiparametric Odds Ratio Model

A flexible semiparametric odds ratio model has been proposed to unify and to extend both the log-linear model and the joint normal model for data with a mix of discrete and continuous variables. The ...
lse

Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Actuarial Science and BSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics. This course is available on the BSc in Data Science, BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical ...
The Conversation

Research shows giraffes can use statistical reasoning. They’re the first animal with a relatively small brain known to do this

Scarlett Howard received funding from Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, RMIT University, Fyssen Foundation, L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talents French ...