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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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