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Scene viewing is used to study attentional selection in complex but still controlled environments. One of the main observations on eye movements during scene viewing is the inhomogeneous distribution of fixation locations: While some parts…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-14 Hans A. Trukenbrod , Simon Barthelmé , Felix A. Wichmann , Ralf Engbert

Given that hierarchical count data in many fields are not Normally-distributed and include random effects, this paper extends the Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) into Poisson Mixed-Effect Linear Model (PMELM) and do numerical…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-09 N. Zhang

The precision matrix that encodes conditional linear dependency relations among a set of variables forms an important object of interest in multivariate analysis. Sparse estimation procedures for precision matrices such as the graphical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-09 Gaëtan Louvet , Jakob Raymaekers , Germain Van Bever , Ines Wilms

This paper presents methods for analyzing spatial experiments when complex spillovers, displacement effects, and other types of "interference" are present. We present a robust, design-based approach to analyzing effects in such settings.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Cyrus Samii , Ye Wang , Jonathan Sullivan , Peter M. Aronow

The Influence Function (IF) is a widely used technique for assessing the impact of individual training samples on model predictions. However, existing IF methods often fail to provide reliable influence estimates in deep neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xichen Ye , Yifan Wu , Weizhong Zhang , Cheng Jin , Yifan Chen

Influence functions (IFs) are a powerful tool for detecting anomalous examples in large scale datasets. However, they are unstable when applied to deep networks. In this paper, we provide an explanation for the instability of IFs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Thang Nguyen-Duc , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Quan Hung Tran , Dang Huu-Tien , Hieu Ngoc Nguyen , Anh T. V. Dau , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Traditional analysis of marked spatial point processes often relies on global summary statistics, which tend to obscure local spatial heterogeneity by averaging dependencies across the entire observation window. To overcome this limitation,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-13 Clemens Baldzuhn , Matthias Eckardt

Outlier detection in high-dimensional data is a challenging yet important task, as it has applications in, e.g., fraud detection and quality control. State-of-the-art density-based algorithms perform well because they 1) take the local…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Bas van Stein , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

We provide sensitivity comparisons for two competing versions of the dimension reduction method principal Hessian directions (pHd). These comparisons consider the effects of small perturbations on the estimation of the dimension reduction…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-09-29 Luke A. Prendergast , Jodie A. Smith

We present a nonparametric method for outlier detection that takes full account of local variations in intrinsic dimensionality within the dataset. Using the theory of Local Intrinsic Dimensionality (LID), our 'dimensionality-aware' outlier…

Spatial documentation is exponentially increasing given the availability of Big IoT Data, enabled by the devices miniaturization and data storage capacity. Bayesian spatial statistics is a useful statistical tool to determine the dependence…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-01 Francisco Louzada , Diego C. Nascimento , Osafu Augustine Egbon

Surface, image and video data can be considered as functional data with a bivariate domain. To detect outlying surfaces or images, a new method is proposed based on the mean and the variability of the degree of outlyingness at each grid…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-01 Mia Hubert , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Pieter Segaert

Cook's [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 48 (1986) 133--169] local influence approach based on normal curvature is an important diagnostic tool for assessing local influence of minor perturbations to a statistical model. However, no rigorous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Hongtu Zhu , Joseph G. Ibrahim , Sikyum Lee , Heping Zhang

Outlier detection (also known as anomaly detection or deviation detection) is a process of detecting data points in which their patterns deviate significantly from others. It is common to have outliers in industry applications, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Kasra Babaei , ZhiYuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Spatial statistics is concerned with the analysis of data that have spatial locations associated with them, and those locations are used to model statistical dependence between the data. The spatial data are treated as a single realisation…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-09 Noel Cressie , Matthew Sainsbury-Dale , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

Area-level models for small area estimation typically rely on areal random effects to shrink design-based direct estimates towards a model-based predictor. Incorporating the spatial dependence of the random effects into these models can…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-22 Sho Kawano , Paul A. Parker , Zehang Richard Li

As a rule statistical measures are often vulnerable to the presence of outliers and spatial correlation coefficients, critical in the assessment of spatial data, remain susceptible to this inherent flaw. In contexts where data originates…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-13 Vincenzo Nardelli , Giuseppe Arbia

The detection of outliers is of critical importance in the assurance of data quality. Outliers may exist in observed data or in data derived from these observed data, such as estimates and forecasts. An outlier may indicate a problem with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Charles D. Coleman , Thomas Bryan

In this paper, we investigate the impact of outliers on the statistical significance of coefficients in linear regression. We demonstrate, through numerical simulation using R, that a single outlier can cause an otherwise insignificant…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-21 Felix Reichel

Spatial statistics is an area of study devoted to the statistical analysis of data that have a spatial label associated with them. Geographers often refer to the "location information" associated with the "attribute information," whose…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-18 Noel Cressie , Matthew T. Moores