The City Health Department Statistician

Strategic Planning in the Occupational Health Department

Introduction: Universities play a key role in creating a knowledge-based society and its sustainable development. Strategic planning by strategically analyses internal and external environments of the organization, forecast its future, identifying its strategic direction, and strengthening organizational structures, processes, and outcomes, creates and sustains competitive advantages. This stud...

The Embodied Statistician

How do infants, children, and adults learn grammatical rules from the mere observation of grammatically structured sequences? We present an embodied hypothesis that (a) people covertly imitate stimuli; (b) imitation tunes the particular neuromuscular systems used in the imitation, facilitating transitions between the states corresponding to the successive grammatical stimuli; and (c) the discri...

Towards a Neural Statistician

An efficient learner is one who reuses what they already know to tackle a new problem. For a machine learner, this means understanding the similarities amongst datasets. In order to do this, one must take seriously the idea of working with datasets, rather than datapoints, as the key objects to model. Towards this goal, we demonstrate an extension of a variational autoencoder that can learn a m...

University of Groningen The statistician

Record Matching for a Large Master Client Index at the New York City Health Department

Executive Summary/Abstract: The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a pressing need to accurately identify individuals for a variety of public health purposes. This led to the construction of the Master Client Index (MCI). The system offers a department-wide service that provides fast, real-time processing of incoming medical records to determine whether the individual is ...