Simulations found a clearer advantage for changing privacy spending over time in longer website experiments; across an experiment portfolio, regret-based allocation often produced more simulated clicks than equal splitting at intermediate budgets.
An arXiv preprint gives an if-and-only-if characterization of independent increments for a specified class of non-negative random valuations. It also develops Poisson and geometric representations, while remaining entirely theoretical rather than empirical.
An arXiv preprint gives a closed-form upper boundary for Spearman’s rho when Spearman’s footrule is prescribed, identifies a unique optimizer, and maps the exact attainable region. It extends the analysis to finite rankings and mixability, but leaves the exact relationship between ξ and η unresolved.
A new preprint evaluates MCES, a system that combines 11 analytical methods into one score for ranking candidate driver–outcome pairs. It performed strongly in several tested benchmarks, but the authors describe it as a hypothesis-prioritisation tool rather than proof of cause and effect.
A methods preprint classifies covariance-polynomial denominators used in rational causal estimators. It reports exact self-normalization for products built from nested covariance volumes, while weak denominators can produce non-Gaussian ratio behavior.
A preprint describes a Bayesian method that borrows information across related brain connections. Applied to multisite autism data, it produced a predominantly negative but non-uniform association pattern; the authors stress that the result is observational and conditional on model choices.
A conceptual preprint links the development of spatial statistics with Spatial AI, arguing for flexible learning alongside explicit spatial structure and careful validation.
A new arXiv preprint argues that gradient-free random-walk Metropolis can retain positive worst-case acceptance for certain steep target distributions when proposal size is tied to curvature and local force. Its implications for mixing remain conditional on additional geometric assumptions.
A methods preprint proposes D3 and D3op, which use logistic Lasso screening and post-Lasso inference to test whether groups share the same mean vector across many variables. D3 was faster in the reported benchmark, but the findings are conditional on the study’s assumptions and selected settings.
A preprint presents an assumption-dependent central-limit theorem for higher-order Markov chains whose order grows with sequence length, with a binary variable-length example showing one sufficient growth condition.
Selected simulations found that an overshoot-based identity tracked martingale threshold crossings more closely than Ville’s bound, while the preprint extends the accounting to random times, finite-step paths and pooled tests.
An arXiv preprint presents PEtab SciML, an interoperable format for specifying, sharing and training scientific machine-learning models that combine ordinary differential equations with machine learning.
A statistical methods preprint proposes fitting a working model and then calibrating its decision threshold on separate data. Theory and simulations report stronger control of false inclusions and smaller disagreement between estimated and true reliability sets under the tested conditions.
A new arXiv preprint derives a Gumbel extreme-value law for the largest nearest-neighbour gap in a fixed bulk region of the complex Ginibre ensemble, with explicit centering corrections and numerical constants. The result is asymptotic, applies to the complex Gaussian model away from the spectral edge, and has not been checked by simulation or finite-size data.
A new graph-based AI system performed strongly in simulated epidemic forecasts, especially when predicting hospitalisation peaks. Its real-world accuracy remains unknown.
A methods preprint tests propensity-score approaches for case-control studies. Weighting was close to target in simulations, while matching depended strongly on its settings. In a Montreal ovarian-cancer application, regular aspirin-use estimates were below 1 but varied by method and uncertainty.