Statistical significance—meaningful or not

pre-coordination or not?

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Census Adjustment: Statistical Promise or Statistical Illusion?

The census has been taken every ten years since 1790. Counts are used to apportion Congress and redistrict states. Furthermore, census data are the basis for allocating federal tax money to cities and other local governments. For such purposes, the geographical distribution of the population matters rather than counts for the nation as a whole. Data from 1990 and previous censuses suggested the...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

euthanasia: murder or not: a comparative approach.

background euthanasia is one of the most intriguing ethical, medical and law issues that marked whole xx century and beginning of the xxi century, sharply dividing scientific and unscientific public to its supporters and opponents. it also appears as one of the points where all three major religions (catholic, orthodox, and islamic) have the same view. they are strongly against legalizing mercy...

To Swap or Not to Swap? Exploiting Dependency Word Pairs for Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation

Reordering poses a major challenge in machine translation (MT) between two languages with significant differences in word order. In this paper, we present a novel reordering approach utilizing sparse features based on dependency word pairs. Each instance of these features captures whether two words, which are related by a dependency link in the source sentence dependency parse tree, follow the ...