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The present work introduces floodlight, an open source Python package built to support and automate team sport data analysis. It is specifically designed for the scientific analysis of spatiotemporal tracking data, event data, and game…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Dominik Raabe , Henrik Biermann , Manuel Bassek , Martin Wohlan , Rumena Komitova , Robert Rein , Tobias Kuppens Groot , Daniel Memmert

Maximum-likelihood exponent maps have been studied as a technique to increase the understanding and improve the fit of power-law exponents to experimental and numerical simulation data, especially when they exhibit both upper and lower…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-02 Jordi Baró , Eduard Vives

Braidlab is a Matlab package for analyzing data using braids. It was designed to be fast, so it can be used on relatively large problems. It uses the object-oriented features of Matlab to provide a class for braids on punctured disks and a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Marko Budisic

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a powerful tool in building classifiers with easy computation and interpretation. Recent advancements in science technology have led to the popularity of datasets with high dimensions, high orders and…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-09 Yuqing Pan , Qing Mai , Xin Zhang

We propose a new method of statistical analysis of nucleotide sequences yielding the true scaling without requiring any form of de-trending. With the help of artificial sequences that are proved to be statistically equivalent to the real…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicola Scafetta , Vito Latora , Paolo Grigolini

The paper advocates the use of a statistical tool dedicated to the exploration of data samples populated by several sources of events. This new technique, called sPlot, is able to unfold the contributions of the different sources to the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-08-23 Muriel Pivk

Probabilistic forecasts in the form of probability distributions over future events have become popular in several fields including meteorology, hydrology, economics, and demography. In typical applications, many alternative statistical…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-31 Alexander Jordan , Fabian Krüger , Sebastian Lerch

The different between the inverse power function and the negative exponential function is significant. The former suggests a complex distribution, while the latter indicates a simple distribution. However, the association of the power-law…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Yanguang Chen

We bring rigor to the vibrant activity of detecting power laws in empirical degree distributions in real-world networks. We first provide a rigorous definition of power-law distributions, equivalent to the definition of regularly varying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 Ivan Voitalov , Pim van der Hoorn , Remco van der Hofstad , Dmitri Krioukov

The prediction interval is gaining prominence in meta-analysis as it enables the assessment of uncertainties in treatment effects and heterogeneity between studies. However, coverage probabilities of the current standard method for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-18 Kengo Nagashima , Hisashi Noma , Toshi A. Furukawa

We suggest partial logarithmic binning as the method of choice for uncovering the nature of many distributions encountered in information science (IS). Logarithmic binning retrieves information and trends "not visible" in noisy power-law…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-04-03 Staša Milojević

Law at large underpins modern society, codifying and governing many aspects of citizens' daily lives. Oftentimes, law is subject to interpretation, debate and challenges throughout various courts and jurisdictions. But in some other areas,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Denis Merigoux , Nicolas Chataing , Jonathan Protzenko

SafePILCO is a software tool for safe and data-efficient policy search with reinforcement learning. It extends the known PILCO algorithm, originally written in MATLAB, to support safe learning. We provide a Python implementation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Kyriakos Polymenakos , Nikitas Rontsis , Alessandro Abate , Stephen Roberts

Power law is one of the the simplest forms of the relationship between different variables of a system. It leads naturally to the introduction of compound parameters describing physical properties of the system. Often one of the variables…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander M. Korsunsky

In prefix coding over an infinite alphabet, methods that consider specific distributions generally consider those that decline more quickly than a power law (e.g., Golomb coding). Particular power-law distributions, however, model many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-06 Michael B. Baer

Instance Space Analysis is a methodology to evaluate algorithm performance across diverse problem fields. Through visualisation and exploratory data analysis techniques, Instance Space Analysis offers objective, data-driven insights into…

Data analysis is a powerful tool in all experimental sciences. Statistical methods, such as sampling theory, computer technologies necessary for handling large amounts of data, skill in analysing information contained in different types of…

Physics Education · Physics 2012-06-20 Vera Montalbano

We propose a method for setting limits that avoids excluding parameter values for which the sensitivity falls below a specified threshold. These "power-constrained" limits (PCL) address the issue that motivated the widely used CLs…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-17 Glen Cowan , Kyle Cranmer , Eilam Gross , Ofer Vitells

A new version of a strong law of large numbers for a ``good'' pairwise independent sequence of random variables (r.v.'s) with a small part of ``bad'' dependent r.v.'s is proposed. The main goal is to relax the assumption on the existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-10 I. V. Kozlov , A. Yu. Veretennikov

pandapower is a Python based, BSD-licensed power system analysis tool aimed at automation of static and quasi-static analysis and optimization of balanced power systems. It provides power flow, optimal power flow, state estimation,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Leon Thurner , Alexander Scheidler , Florian Schäfer , Jan-Hendrik Menke , Julian Dollichon , Friederike Meier , Steffen Meinecke , Martin Braun