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Classical tools of nonlinear dynamics are used to study the highly excited vibrations of small molecules. For effective Hamiltonians with one polyad number (approximate constant of motion), previously developed methods locate new anharmonic…
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The tuning parameter selection strategy for penalized estimation is crucial to identify a model that is both interpretable and predictive. However, popular strategies (e.g., minimizing average squared prediction error via cross-validation)…
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