Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

Abstract: With the preferable efficiency in storage and computation, hashing has shown potential application in large-scale multimedia retrieval. Compared with traditional hashing algorithms using ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a newly revealed technique in ...

Objective: People often have their decisions influenced by rare outcomes, such as buying a lottery and believing they will win, or not buying a product because of a few negative reviews. Previous ...

Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...

ABSTRACT: Numerous developing nations are grappling with high unemployment rates, as exemplified by South Africa’s 32.1% unemployment rate. This has resulted in a surge in youth unemployment, with ...

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c01231. Additional results on the long-time convergence of the ...

This technical note covers household surveys with a focus on probability sampling, bias, and survey weights. It explains how households are selected in a representative way from a population for a ...

The WeightedRandomItemSampler class implements a random sampler where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, with replacement allowed between samples. In other words, an ...