Refining the Value Orientation Inventory

Refining Conditional Probative Value

Refining Multivariate Value Set Bounds

OF THE DISSERTATION Refining Multivariate Value Set Bounds By Luke Alexander Smith Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics University of California, Irvine, 2015 Professor Daqing Wan, Chair Over finite fields, if the image of a polynomial map is not the entire field, then its cardinality can be bounded above by a significantly smaller value. Earlier results bound the cardinality of the value set us...

Refining Motif Finders with E-value Calculations

Motif finders are an important tool for searching for regulatory elements in DNA. Popular existing programs optimize the entropy score to efficiently search for motifs. While E-values are commonly used for assigning significance to the optimal reported motifs they are not directly optimized for. This raises the question whether optimizing for E-values instead of entropy could improve the finder...

The Value of Information in Inventory Management

Inventory management traditionally assumes the precise knowledge of the underlying demand distribution and a risk-neutral manager. New product introduction does not fit this framework because (i) not enough information is available to compute probabilities and (ii) managers are generally risk-averse. In this work, we analyze the value of information for twostage inventory management in a robust...

Measuring Social Value Orientation

Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different motivations when choosing unilaterally among interdependent outcomes. Measuring the magnitude of the concern people have for others, sometimes called Social Value Orientation (SVO), has been an interest of many social scie...