Practical Reasonableness: Some Epistemic Issues

Pain, placebo, and nocebo: epistemic, ethical, and practical issues.

Some practical issues and their resolution

Clinical significance and health relatedness of islet cryopreservation. Diabetes mellitus is the seventh leading cause of death in U.S. as listed on death certificates in 2006, afflicting approximately 18 million people. It is estimated that a further 5.7 million patients have the disease but have not yet been diagnosed; the incidence of diabetes has increased by 13% in 2007 in comparison to 20...

Epistemic Issues and Group Knowledge

Formal models for group knowledge can help philosophers gain additional insight into the ramifications of the philosophical concepts that they propose by clarifying the abstract properties of these concepts and their relationship to alternative proposals. To date, however, formal treatments of group knowledge have remained largely disjointed from the related philosophical discussions and are th...

Training Continuous Space Language Models: Some Practical Issues

Using multi-layer neural networks to estimate the probabilities of word sequences is a promising research area in statistical language modeling, with applications in speech recognition and statistical machine translation. However, training such models for large vocabulary tasks is computationally challenging which does not scale easily to the huge corpora that are nowadays available. In this wo...

Matching Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Models: Some Practical Issues

Lechner and Miquel (2001) approached the causal analysis of sequences of interventions from a potential outcome perspective based on selection on-observables-type assumptions (sequential conditional independence assumptions). Lechner (2004) proposed matching estimators for this framework. However, many practical issues that might have substantial consequences for the interpretation of the resul...