Coercion: point, perception, process

Coercion: point, perception, process

Background The use of coercion in the treatment of persons with serious mental illness is a long debated strategy to gain adherence to treatment for persons believed to be cognitively impaired by their illness. This article examines the psychometric properties of a scale developed to measure perception of coercion. Using a psychometrically sound scale found to be both reliable and valid in a sp...

Type Coercion from a Natural Language Generation Point of View

We discuss the question of how phenomena of type coercion (TC) can be integrated into Natural Language Generation (NLG). The ultimate goal is the generation of expressions that instantiate type coercion in cases where such expressions are the most natural verbalization for a given piece of information. Our approach is an extension of the SPUD NLG system developed by Matthew Stone. This system i...

Bounds for Point Process

We consider the behavior of spatial point processes when subjected to a class of linear transformations indexed by a variable T . It was shown in Ellis [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 18 (1986) 646–659] that, under mild assumptions, the transformed processes behave approximately like Poisson processes for large T . In this article, under very similar assumptions, explicit upper bounds are given for the ...

Cryptic coercion.

Gaussian Process Change Point Models

•Combine Bayesian change point detection with Gaussian Processes to define a nonstationary time series model. •Central aim is to react to underlying regime changes in an online manner. •Able to integrate out all latent variables and optimize hyperparameters sequentially. •Explore three alternative ways of augmenting GP models to handle nonstationarity (GPTS, ARGPCP and NSGP – see below). •A Bay...