Publications

Qualitative Analysis: Practice and Innovation

Offering a detailed introduction to the practice of data analysis, this book is both user-friendly and theoretically grounded. Drawing on his extensive experience of qualitative...

Conjugate coding

article Conjugate coding Share on Author: Stephen Wiesner Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.View Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGACT Ne...

A stagewise rejective multiple test procedure based on a modified Bonferroni test

Journal Article A stagewise rejective multiple test procedure based on a modified Bonferroni test Get access G. HOMMEL G. HOMMEL Institut für Medizinische Statistik und Dokument...

How Big Is the Random Walk in GNP?

This paper presents a measure of the persistence of fluctuations in gross national product (GNP) based on the variance of its long differences. That measure finds little long-te...

Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “True Self” on the Internet

Those who feel better able to express their “true selves” in Internet rather than face‐to‐face interaction settings are more likely to form close relationships with people met o...

Alternative factor specifications, security characteristics, and the cross-section of expected stock returns1We are especially grateful to Eugene Fama (a referee), an anonymous referee and Bill Schwert (the editor) for insightful and constructive suggestions. We also thank Wayne Ferson, Ken French, Will Goetzmann, Craig Holden, Ravi Jagannathan, Bob Jennings, Bruce Lehmann, Josef Lakonishok, Richard Roll, participants at the 1997 Meetings of the Western Finance Association, the 1997 UCLA/USC/UC Irvine conference, the November 1997 Asset Pricing Meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Atlanta Forum, and seminars at Columbia, Indiana, Florida, New York, Tulane, and Yale Universities; Eugene Fama and Ken French for providing part of the data used in this study; and Christoph Schenzler for excellent programming assistance. The second author acknowledges support from the Dean's Fund for Research and the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University. We are responsible for remaining errors. This paper was formerly titled `A Re-Examination of Security Return Anomalies'.1

HOGWILD!: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a popular algorithm that can achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks. Several researchers have recently ...

In transaction cost economics, trust has been treated as redundant or even misleading.This study tested the effects of governance and trust on the risk perceived by agents of fi...

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

In 1957, the United States Congress established the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health to evaluate the nation's resources for coping with both the psychological and e...

Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flow

Reactive flows encompass a broad range of physical phenomena, interacting over many different time and space scales. Such flows occur in combustion, chemical lasers, the earth's...

Markov Chains

Markov chains are central to the understanding of random processes. This is not only because they pervade the applications of random processes, but also because one can calculat...

Training Very Deep Networks

Theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that the depth of neural networks is crucial for their success. However, training becomes more difficult as depth increases, and tra...