Random Walk Picture of Basketball ScoringWe present evidence, based on play-by-play data from all 6087 games from the 2006/07--2009/10 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), that basketball scoring is well described by a…Alan Gabel, S. Redner·Sep 13, 2011SaveLearn
On the Performance of P2P Network: An Assortment MethodP2P systems have grown dramatically in recent years. The most popular type of P2P systems are file sharing networks, which are used to share various types of content over the Internet. Due to the…Yuqing Zhou·Sep 12, 2011SaveLearn
Correlations of record events as a test for heavy-tailed distributionsA record is an entry in a time series that is larger or smaller than all previous entries. If the time series consists of independent, identically distributed random variables with a superimposed…J. Franke, G. Wergen, J. Krug·Sep 9, 2011SaveLearn
Negatively Biased Relevant Subsets Induced by the Most-Powerful One-Sided Upper Confidence Limits for a Bounded Physical ParameterSuppose an observable x is the measured value (negative or non-negative) of a true mean mu (physically non-negative) in an experiment with a Gaussian resolution function with known fixed rms…Robert D. Cousins·Sep 9, 2011SaveLearn
Wavelets and wavelet-like transforms on the sphere and their application to geophysical data inversionMany flexible parameterizations exist to represent data on the sphere. In addition to the venerable spherical harmonics, we have the Slepian basis, harmonic splines, wavelets and wavelet-like Slepian…Frederik J. Simons, Ignace Loris, Eugene Brevdo et al.·Sep 8, 2011SaveLearn
Feldman-Cousins Confidence Levels - Toy MC MethodIn particle physics, the likelihood ratio ordering principle is frequently used to determine confidence regions. This method has statistical properties that are superior to that of other confidence…Till Moritz Karbach·Sep 4, 2011SaveLearn
Error Estimation for Moments Analysis in Heavy-Ion Collision ExperimentsFluctuations of conserved quantities are predicted to be sensitive to the correlation length and connected to the thermodynamic susceptibility. Thus, moments of net-baryon, net-charge and…Xiaofeng Luo·Sep 3, 2011SaveLearn
A Student-t based filter for robust signal detectionThe search for gravitational-wave signals in detector data is often hampered by the fact that many data analysis methods are based on the theory of stationary Gaussian noise, while actual measurement…Christian Röver·Sep 2, 2011SaveLearn
Extreme value and record statistics in heavy-tailed processes with long-range memoryExtreme events are an important theme in various areas of science because of their typically devastating effects on society and their scientific complexities. The latter is particularly true if the…Aicko Yves Schumann, Nicholas R. Moloney, Jörn Davidsen·Sep 1, 2011SaveLearn
Exact solutions for mass-dependent irreversible aggregationsWe consider the mass-dependent aggregation process (k+1)X -> X, given a fixed number of unit mass particles in the initial state. One cluster is chosen proportional to its mass and is merged into one…Seung-Woo Son, Claire Christensen, Golnoosh Bizhani et al.·Aug 31, 2011SaveLearn
Pheromone Static Routing Strategy for Complex NetworksIn this paper, we adopt the concept of pheromone to generate a set of static paths that can reach the performance of global dynamic routing strategy [Phys. Rev. E 81, 016113(2010)]. In the test…Xiang Ling, Henry Y. K. Lau, Rui Jiang et al.·Aug 31, 2011SaveLearn
Optimal Data Split Methodology for Model ValidationThe decision to incorporate cross-validation into validation processes of mathematical models raises an immediate question - how should one partition the data into calibration and validation sets? We…Rebecca Morrison, Corey Bryant, Gabriel Terejanu et al.·Aug 30, 2011SaveLearn
Unified nuclear core activity map reconstruction using heterogeneous instruments with data assimilationEvaluating the neutronic state of the whole nuclear core is a very important topic that have strong implication for nuclear core management and for security monitoring. The core state is evaluated…Bertrand Bouriquet, Jean-Philippe Argaud, Patrick Erhard et al.·Aug 30, 2011SaveLearn
Partial Wave Analysis using Graphics CardsPartial wave analysis is a key technique in hadron spectroscopy. The use of unbinned likelihood fits on large statistics data samples and ever more complex physics models makes this analysis…Niklaus Berger·Aug 30, 2011SaveLearn
Controlling overestimation of error covariance in ensemble Kalman filters with sparse observations: A variance limiting Kalman filterWe consider the problem of an ensemble Kalman filter when only partial observations are available. In particular we consider the situation where the observational space consists of variables which…Georg A. Gottwald, Lewis Mitchell, Sebastian Reich·Aug 30, 2011SaveLearn
Percolation of partially interdependent networks under targeted attackThe study of interdependent networks, and in particular the robustness on networks, has attracted considerable attention. Recent studies mainly assume that the dependence is fully interdependent.…Gao-Gao Dong, Jian-Xi Gao, Li-Xin Tian et al.·Aug 30, 2011SaveLearn
Partial wave analysis at BES III harnessing the power of GPUsPartial wave analysis is a core tool in hadron spectroscopy. With the high statistics data available at facilities such as the Beijing Spectrometer III, this procedure becomes computationally very…Niklaus Berger·Aug 29, 2011SaveLearn
Compression Waves and Phase Plots: SimulationsCompression wave analysis started nearly 50 years ago with Fowles.[1] Coperthwaite and Williams [2] gave a method that helps identify simple and steady waves. We have been developing a method that…Daniel Orlikowski, Roger Minich·Aug 29, 2011SaveLearn
Robustness of a Tree-like Network of Interdependent NetworksIn reality, many real-world networks interact with and depend on other networks. We develop an analytical framework for studying interacting networks and present an exact percolation law for a…Jianxi Gao, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin et al.·Aug 29, 2011SaveLearn
A Pattern MeasureIn this paper we propose numerical measures for evaluating the aesthetic interest of simple patterns. The patterns consist of elements (symbols, pixels, etc.) in regular square arrays. The measures…Allen Klinger, Nikos A. Salingaros·Aug 28, 2011SaveLearn
Deterministic multidimensional growth model for small-world networksWe proposed a deterministic multidimensional growth model for small-world networks. The model can characterize the distinguishing properties of many real-life networks with geometric space structure.…Aoyuan Peng, Lianming Zhang·Aug 27, 2011SaveLearn
Reference analysis of the signal + background model in counting experimentsThe model representing two independent Poisson processes, labelled as "signal" and "background" and both contributing at the same time to the total number of counted events, is…Diego Casadei·Aug 22, 2011SaveLearn
Failure of Numerical modeling of 3-D Position Reconstruction from 3-Axial Planar Spiral Coil Sensor Sensitivity due to Existence of Quadratic TermsA sensitivity profile of a planar spiral coil sensor (PSCS) is proposed and is used to generate the relation of 3-D position of object observed using three PSCSs, one in each x, y, and z axis to the…Edi Sanjaya, Mitra Djamal, Sparisoma Viridi·Aug 21, 2011SaveLearn
Are Percolation Transitions always Sharpened by Making Networks Interdependent?We study a model for coupled networks introduced recently by Buldyrev et al., Nature 464, 1025 (2010), where each node has to be connected to others via two types of links to be viable. Removing a…Seung-Woo Son, Peter Grassberger, Maya Paczuski·Aug 18, 2011SaveLearn
A simple pendulum: Obtaining motion of pendulum bob from string tension time seriesTime series of string tension of a simple pendulum has not yet been a interesting motion information, even nowadays using a force tension sensor can be measured easily. A numerical procedure is…Sparisoma Viridi, Siti Nurul Khotimah·Aug 17, 2011SaveLearn