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Using conditional promises, the reliability of promises can be measured without considering the reliability of the whole agent, by defining notions of when conditions operate and when promises are expected to be fulfilled. This inspires an analytical method based upon “incomplete conditions” that attributes failures to incomplete knowledge rather than operational faults. This analysis allows ag...

We investigate quantile regression based on the pinball loss and the ǫ-insensitive loss. For the pinball loss a condition on the data-generating distribution P is given that ensures that the conditional quantiles are approximated with respect to ‖ · ‖1. This result is then used to derive an oracle inequality for an SVM based on the pinball loss. Moreover, we show that SVMs based on the ǫ-insens...

The entropy of an ergodic finite-alphabet process can be computed from a single typical sample path x1 using the entropy of the k-block empirical probability and letting k grow with n roughly like logn. We further assume that the distribution of the process is a g-measure with respect to a continuous and regular g-function. We prove large deviation principles for conditional, non-conditional an...

As someone who has been advocating “living beyond one’s means” since before the Reagan administration, I welcome Thomas’s endorsement of the idea. If we embrace the maxim that statistics is about variation then we should stand ready to explore how that variation varies with covariates. Assuming, as theory may tempt us to do, that covariates shift only the central tendency of the response, while...

In many cases individuals benefit differently from the provision of a public good. We study in a laboratory experiment how heterogeneity in returns and uncertainty affects unconditional and conditional contribution behavior in a linear public goods game. The elicitation of conditional contributions in combination with a within subject design allows us to investigate belief-independent and type-...

Based on the entropy calculations of (Bonami & Boyé, à paraître), we propose an automatic analysis of inflection couched in the stem spaces framework. Our treatment is based on a lexicon of 6440 verbs present in BDLex (de Calmès & Pérennou, 1998) and associated with their frequencies from Lexique3 (New et al., 2001). The algorithm we propose consists in three steps : computing conditional entro...

What does a blind entity need in order to determine the geometry of the set of photocells that it carries through a changing lightfield? In this paper, we show that very crude knowledge of some statistical properties of the environment is sufficient for this task. We show that some dissimilarity measures between pairs of signals produced by photocells are strongly related to the angular separat...