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Detecting Circadian Gene Expressions via Bayesian Analysis: an Application to the Arabidopsis Thaliana Dataset

In genomic applications, there is often interest in identifying genes whose time-course expression trajectories exhibit periodic oscillations with a period of approximately 24 hours (circadian genes). While it is natural to expect that the expression …

Joint Complete Records occurrence over Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern sequences

Clustering athlete performances in track and field sports

This study aims to cluster track and field athletes based on their average seasonal performance. Athletes’ performance measurements are treated as random perturbations of an underlying individual step function with season-specific random intercepts. …

The hierarchical Beta-Bernoulli process as out-of-scope query detector

Task-oriented dialog systems are computer systems that interact with humans in natural language. The system receives a query, converts the sequence of words into a semantic representation to be used by the dialog manager, decides the best response …

Bayesian functional mixed effects model for sports data

The use of statistical methods in sport analytics is common practice nowadays. In this work, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian model for describing and predicting the evolution of performance over time for shot put athletes. We address seasonality …

Prediction of gene expression from transcription factors affinities: an application of Bayesian non-linear modelling

The prediction of gene expressions from DNA sequences is a relevant problem in biology. While most of the existing methods dedicated to this task use genotypes as predictors, here we propose a method based on transcription factor affinities, which …

Predictive power of Bayesian CAR models on scale free networks: an application for credit risk

The monitoring of loans’ life-cycle has received the increasing attention of the scientific community after the 2008 global financial crisis. A number of aspects of this broad topic have been addressed by means of several regulatory, statistical and …