Confirmation and Extra Information

A Linguistic Analysis of the Online Debate on Vaccines and Use of Fora as Information Stations and Confirmation Niche

This study looks at the communication between users concerning health risks, with the aim of exploring their use of fora and assessing whether participants establish a niche with like-minded users during these exchanges. By integrating a corpus linguistic approach with content analysis and multiple studies on computer mediated health discourse, this study analyses the intense attention paid to ...

Mining with Information Extra tionUn

Integer Factoring with Extra Information

In this paper we present an heuristic algorithm and its implementation in C++ program for integer factoring with high-order bits known based on lattice reduction techniques. Our approach is inspired in algorithms for predicting pseudorandom numbers.

Colin Howson Does information inform confirmation ?

In a recent survey of the literature on the relation between information and confirmation, Crupi and Tentori (2014) claim that the former is a fruitful source of insight into the latter, with two well-known measures of confirmation being definable purely information-theoretically. I argue that of the two explicata of semantic information (due originally to Bar Hillel and Carnap) which are consi...

Incorporating Extra Information in Nonparametric Smoothing

Nonparametric estimation of conditional mean functions has been studied extensively in the literature. This paper addresses the question of how to use extra informations to improve the estimation. Particularly, we consider the situation that the conditional mean function E(Z | X ) is of interest and there is an auxiliary variable available which is correlated with both X and Z. A two-stage kern...