In Huang and Weng (2004), Huang and Weng introduced pooling spaces, and constructed pooling designs from a pooling space. In this paper, we introduce the concept of pooling semilattices and prove that a pooling semilattice is a pooling space, then show how to construct pooling designs from a pooling semilattice. Moreover, we give many examples of pooling semilattices and thus obtain the corresp...

The quantitative analysis of pooled data from related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments has the potential to significantly accelerate progress in brain mapping. Such data-pooling can be achieved through meta-analysis (the pooled analysis of published results), mega-analysis (the pooled analysis of raw data) or multi-site studies, which can be seen as designed mega-analyse...

Convolutional networks almost always incorporate some form of spatial pooling, and very often it is α × α max-pooling with α = 2. Max-pooling act on the hidden layers of the network, reducing their size by an integer multiplicative factor α. The amazing by product of discarding 75% of your data is that you build into the network a degree of invariance with respect to translations and elastic di...

A systematic literature review of population prevalence studies of low back pain between 1966 and 1998 was conducted to investigate data homogeneity and appropriateness for pooling. Fifty-six studies were analyzed using methodologic criteria that examined sample representativeness, data quality, and pain definition. Acceptable studies were assessed for homogeneity and appropriateness for poolin...

Organizations that use time series forecasting on a regular basis generally forecast many variables, such as demand for many products or services. Within the population of variables forecasted by an organization, we can expect that there will be groups of analogous time series that follow similar, time-based patterns. The co-variation of analogous time series is a largely untapped source of inf...

Aim Functional diversity indices that summarize trait variation between organisms within communities are widely used tools in community ecology. Although intraspecific is often an important component of the total variation, traditional functional neglect this component. Recently, Carmona et al. proposed a framework to overcome limitation based on fitting probability distributions (TPDs). Unfort...