Errata: Hyperinsulinemia: A unifying theory of chronic disease?

Pattern Theory: A Unifying Perspective

The term "Pattern Theory" was introduced by Ulf Grenander in the 70s as a name for a field of applied mathematics which gave a theoretical setting for a large number of related ideas, techniques and results from fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, image and acoustic signal processing, pattern recognition and its statistical side, neural nets and parts of artificial intelligence ...

A Unifying Theory for SIDS

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has four distinctive characteristics that must be explained by any theory proposed for it. (1) A characteristic male fraction of approximately 0.61 for all postneonatal SIDS in the US; (2) a distinctive lognormal-type age distribution arising from zero at birth, mode at about 2 months, median at about 3 months, and an exponential decrease with age going t...

A sketch of a unifying statistical theory

A new statistical theory is outlined which builds a bridge between frequentist and Bayesian approaches and very naturally uses upper and lower probabilities. It started with an attempt to investigate how far one can get with a frequentist approach; this approach goes beyond the Neyman-Pearson and the Fisherian theory in explicitly using intersubjective epistemic upper and lower probabilities al...

Matroid Theory - Errata and Updates on . . .

A Unifying Theory of Biological Function

A new theory that naturalizes biological function is explained and compared with earlier etiological and causal role theories. Etiological (or selected effects) theories explain functions from how they are caused over their evolutionary history. Causal role theories analyze how functional mechanisms serve the current capacities of their containing system. The new proposal unifies the key notion...