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Disasters such as wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent occurrences, leaving homeowners scrambling for ways to proactively protect themselves and recover financially. Traditional insurance ...

In risk analysis, researchers often fit many candidate distributions to frequency and severity data and select based on goodness-of-fit. In a new study published in Risk Sciences, the authors ...

Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany developed a predictive model for light and elevated temperature induced degradation in gallium-doped silicon wafer that includes ...

In some studies, the seed germination is statistically evaluated using mean tests to determine the best treatment or regression analysis to examine the response’s behavior about explanatory variables.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it answers encouragingly as an “I.” The ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on monitoring the coefficient estimates of kernel semi-parametric models using exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control charts. The kernel semi-parametric ...

In environmental and nutritional epidemiology and in many other fields, there is increasing interest in estimating the effect of simultaneous exposure to several agents (e.g., multiple nutrients, ...

We’re now into the third year of the AI boom, and industry leaders are showing no signs of slowing down, pushing out newer and (presumably) more capable models on a regular basis. ChatGPT, of course, ...

According to the DeepSeek research paper, the project took only $6 million to train but it performs on par with leading AI models. The release of DeepSeek R1 — an open-source artificial intelligence ...