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This paper introduces a class of Schur-constant survival models, of dimension n, for arithmetic non-negative random variables. Such a model is defined through a univariate survival function that is shown to be n-monotone. Two general representations are obtained, by conditioning on the sum of the n variables or through a doubly mixed multinomial distribution. Several other properties including ...

In this work, we develop and evaluate a wide range of feature spaces for deriving Levinstyle verb classifications (Levin, 1993). We perform the classification experiments using Bayesian Multinomial Regression (an efficient log-linear modeling framework which we found to outperform SVMs for this task) with the proposed feature spaces. Our experiments suggest that subcategorization frames are not...

Given a group G acting on a set S, Mobius inversion over the lattice of subgroups can be used to obtain congruences relating the number of elements of S stabilized by each subgroup. By taking S to be a set of subsets, partitions, or permutations congruences for binomial and multinomial coefficients. Stirling numbers of both kinds, and various other combinatorial sequences are derived. Congruenc...

By counting flags in finite vector spaces, we obtain a q-multinomial analog of a recursion for q-binomial coefficients proved by Nijenhuis, Solow, and Wilf. We use the identity to give a combinatorial proof of a known recurrence for the generalized Galois numbers.

Many common probability distributions in statistics like the Gaussian, multinomial, Beta or Gamma distributions can be studied under the unified framework of exponential families. In this paper, we prove that both Rényi and Tsallis divergences of distributions belonging to the same exponential family admit a generic closed form expression. Furthermore, we show that Rényi and Tsallis entropies c...

Two different approaches for treating response bias in the process-dissociation procedure were assessed: a multinomial approach proposed by A. Buchner, E. Erdfelder, and B. Vaterrodt-Pliinnecke (1995) and a dual-process, signal-detection approach proposed by A. P. Yonelinas, G. Regehr, and L. L. Jacoby (1995). The authors examined data presented by Buchner et al. and found that, although the si...

Due to growing expectations for quality and safety of food products and an increasing demand for more transparent food supply chains, pork production faces new challenges. In the course of this development, chain-wide communication has gained importance in agribusiness. Nonetheless, existing approaches focus primarily on information supply, whereas the use of information for managerial decision...