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A protocol for assessing bias and robustness of social network metrics using GPS based radio-telemetry data

Background Social network analysis of animal societies allows scientists to test hypotheses about social evolution, behaviour, and …
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How group structure impacts the numbers at risk for coronary artery disease: polygenic risk scores and nongenetic risk factors in the UK Biobank cohort

The UK Biobank (UKB) is a large cohort study that recruited over 500,000 British participants aged 40–69 in 2006–2010 at 22 assessment …
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A scoping review on bovine tuberculosis highlights the need for novel data streams and analytical approaches to curb zoonotic diseases

Zoonotic diseases represent a significant societal challenge in terms of their health and economic impacts. One Health approaches to …
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Genomic insights into the population history and adaptive traits of Latin American Criollo cattle

Criollo cattle, the descendants of animals brought by Iberian colonists to the Americas, have been the subject of natural and …
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Verifying origin claims on dairy products using stable isotope ratio analysis and random forest classification

Scientifically underpinning geographic origin claims will improve consumer trust in food labels. Stable isotope ratio analysis (SIRA) …
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A simulation study for multifactorial genetic disorders to quantify the impact of polygenic risk scores on critical illness insurance

With advances in genetic research, the understanding of the genetic structure of disease and the ability to predict disease risk have …
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Genome-wide local ancestry and evidence for mitonuclear coadaptation in African hybrid cattle populations (Bos taurus/indicus)

The phenotypic diversity of African cattle reflects adaptation to a wide range of agroecological conditions, human-mediated selection …
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Static and dynamic methods in social network analysis reveal the association patterns of desert-dwelling giraffe

Patterns of association in animal societies vary through space and time. Understanding such variation is key to predicting inter- and …
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Computational modelling of Chromosomally Clustering Protein Domains In Bacteria

Background: In bacteria, genes with related functions - such as those involved in the metabolism of the same compound or in infection …
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Local Ancestry Inference in Non-Model Organisms

Recent advances have allowed accurate inference of the timings of and contributors to admixture events (wherein genetically diverged …
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Fine-scale Inference of Ancestry Segments without Prior Knowledge of Admixing Groups

We present an algorithm for inferring ancestry segments and characterizing admixture events, which involve an arbitrary number of …
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Statistical challenges in estimating past climate changes

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Latent Space Models for Multiview Network Data

Social relationships consist of interactions along multiple dimensions. In social networks, this means that individuals form multiple …
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Online Trans-dimensional von Mises-Fisher Mixture Models for User Profiles

The proliferation of online communities has attracted much attention to modelling user behaviour in terms of social interaction, …
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The influence of network structures of Wikipedia discussion pages on the efficiency of WikiProjects

As a platform for discussion and communication, talk pages play an essential role in Wikipedia to facilitate coordination, sharing of …
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Role analysis in networks using mixtures of exponential random graph models

This article introduces a novel and flexible framework for investigating the roles of actors within a network. Particular interest is …
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Making a Case for an Irish500 List

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Bayesian inference for palaeoclimate with time uncertainty and stochastic volatility

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Mixtures of biased sentiment analysers

Modelling bias is an important consideration when dealing with inexpert annotations. We are concerned with training a classifier to …
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Exploring the Relationship between Membership Turnover and Productivity in Online Communities

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Sentiment Analysis of Online Media

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Variational Bayesian Inference for the Latent Position Cluster Model for network data

A number of recent approaches to modeling social networks have focussed on embedding the nodes in a latent “social space”. Nodes that …
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Fast inversion of a flexible regression model for multivariate pollen counts data

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Analysing my Facebook friends

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Review of statistical network analysis: models, algorithms, and software

The analysis of network data is an area that is rapidly growing, both within and outside of the discipline of statistics. This review …
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A latent space mapping for link prediction

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Variational Bayesian inference for the latent position cluster model

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Modelling zero inflation of compositional data

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Modelling temporal uncertainty in palaeoclimate reconstructions

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Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction

We consider the problem of reconstructing prehistoric climates by using fossil data that have been extracted from lake sediment cores. …
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