Publications related to Confirmatory factor analysis

Weak correlations between visual abilities in healthy older adults, despite long-term performance stability

Using batteries of visual tests, most studies have found that there are only weak correlations between the performance levels of the tests. Factor analysis has confirmed these results. This means that a participant excelling in one test may rank low in ano ...

2024

An Ordinal Latent Variable Model of Conflict Intensity

Robert West

Measuring the intensity of events is crucial for monitoring and tracking armed conflict. Advances in automated event extraction have yielded massive data sets of '' who did what to whom '' micro-records that enable datadriven approaches to monitoring confl ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Safety climate in university laboratories. Part I: model development and practical application

Thierry Meyer, Anastasia Jung

Safety climate assessment has become a regular practice for most organisations. However, it is often limited to questionnaires, providing only qualitative information. The indicator-based approach takes precedence over decision-making, and practical risk a ...

2023

Discount models

Damir Filipovic

Discount is the difference between the face value of a bond and its present value. We propose an arbitrage-free dynamic framework for discount models, which provides an alternative to the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework for forward rates. We derive general c ...

Springer Heidelberg2023

Cultural Adaptation, Validation, and Psychometric Description of the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) in the Spanish Population

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Research in psychology and social neuroscience distinguishes between dispositional and situational empathy for the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. Yet, the Pictorial Empathy Test (PET) is one of the few brief tests focusing on situational affec ...

HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP2022

The competent Computational Thinking Test: Development and Validation of an Unplugged Computational Thinking Test for Upper Primary School

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

With the increasing importance of Computational Thinking (CT) at all levels of education, it is essential to have valid and reliable assessments. Currently, there is a lack of such assessments in upper primary school. That is why we present the development ...

2022

High-dimensional Data Cubes

Christoph Koch, Sachin Basil John

This paper introduces an approach to supporting high-dimensional data cubes at interactive query speeds and moderate storage cost. The approach is based on binary(-domain) data cubes that are judiciously partially materialized; the missing information can ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

High-dimensional Data Cubes

Christoph Koch, Sachin Basil John

This paper introduces an approach to supporting high-dimensional data cubes at interactive query speeds and moderate storage cost. The approach is based on binary(-domain) data cubes that are judiciously partially materialized; the missing information can ...

2022

Negative Associations of Stress and Anxiety Levels With Cytotoxic and Regulatory Natural Killer Cell Frequency in Chronic Tinnitus

Patrick Karl Alois Neff

BackgroundDepression and anxiety are known to be associated with stress-induced changes in the immune system. Bothersome tinnitus can be related to stress and often co-occurs with depression and anxiety. This study investigates associations of psychologica ...

Frontiers Media2022

Covariance matrices for variance-suppressed simulations

Cheng Zhao

Cosmological N-body simulations provide numerical predictions of the structure of the Universe against which to compare data from ongoing and future surveys, but the growing volume of the Universe mapped by surveys requires correspondingly lower statistica ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Assessing Computational Thinking: Development and Validation of the Algorithmic Thinking Test for Adults

Olivier Lévêque, Cécile Hardebolle, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Marc Lafuente Martinez

This study describes the development and validation process of a computational thinking (CT) test for adults. The team designed a set of items and explored a subset of those through two qualitative pilots. Then, in order to provide validity evidence based ...

2022

FANOK: Knockoffs in Linear Time

Quentin Rebjock

We describe a series of algorithms that efficiently implement Gaussian model-X knockoffs to control the false discovery rate on large-scale feature selection problems. Identifying the knockoff distribution requires solving a large-scale semidefinite progra ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2021

Interfacial Water Many-Body Effects Drive Structural Dynamics and Allosteric Interactions in SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Dimerization Interface

Frédéric Célerse, Théo Pierre Jaffrelot Inizan

Following our previous work (Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 4889-4907), we study the structural dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease dimerization interface (apo dimer) by means of microsecond adaptive sampling molecular dynamics simulations (50 mu s) using the A ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Exploring MEG brain fingerprints: Evaluation, pitfalls, and interpretations

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Alessandra Griffa, Enrico Amico, Ekansh Sareen, Sélima Zahar

Individual characterization of subjects based on their functional connectome (FC), termed “FC fingerprinting”, has become a highly sought-after goal in contemporary neuroscience research. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have dem ...

2021

Default mode network and the timed up and go in MCI: A structural covariance analysis

Alessandra Griffa

Background: The timed up and go (TUG) is a test used to assess mobility in older adults and patients with neurological conditions. This study aims to compare brain gray matter (GM) correlates and structural covariance networks associated with the TUG time ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Personalizable intervention systems to promote healthy behavior change

Igor Kulev

Adopting healthy behaviors can prevent the onset of many adverse health conditions. However, behavior changes are difficult to make, and often, people who like to improve their behaviors do not know how to do that. Personalizable intervention systems could ...

EPFL2020

Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou

Data cleaning is a time-consuming process that depends on the data analysis that users perform. Existing solutions treat data cleaning as a separate offline process that takes place before analysis begins. Applying data cleaning before analysis assumes a p ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Query-driven Repair of Functional Dependency Violations

Anastasia Ailamaki, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou

Data cleaning is a time-consuming process that depends on the data analysis that users perform. Existing solutions treat data cleaning as a separate offline process that takes place before analysis begins. Applying data cleaning before analysis assumes a p ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Markov cubature rules for polynomial processes

Damir Filipovic, Martin Larsson, Sergio Andres Pulido Nino

We study discretizations of polynomial processes using finite state Markov processes satisfying suitable moment matching conditions. The states of these Markov processes together with their transition probabilities can be interpreted as Markov cubature rul ...

ELSEVIER2020

Exploration and Inference in Spatial Extremes Using Empirical Basis Functions

Emeric Rolland Georges Thibaud

Statistical methods for inference on spatial extremes of large datasets are yet to be developed. Motivated by standard dimension reduction techniques used in spatial statistics, we propose an approach based on empirical basis functions to explore and model ...

SPRINGER2019