How to address non-normality: A taxonomy of approaches, reviewed, and illustrated

J Pek, O Wong, ACM Wong - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The linear model often serves as a starting point for applying statistics in psychology. Often,
formal training beyond the linear model is limited, creating a potential pedagogical gap …

Robust statistical methods: A primer for clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology researchers

AP Field, RR Wilcox - Behaviour research and therapy, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reviews and offers tutorials on robust statistical methods relevant to clinical and
experimental psychopathology researchers. We review the assumptions of one of the most …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Evidence for a gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67
pulsars from the 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz …

The NANOGrav 12.5 yr data set: search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

Z Arzoumanian, PT Baker, H Blumer… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the 12.5 yr
pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for …

Coping and tolerance of uncertainty: Predictors and mediators of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

H Rettie, J Daniels - American Psychologist, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The current pandemic wave of COVID-19 has resulted in significant uncertainty for the
general public. Mental health and examining factors that may influence distress have been …

Climate change will affect global water availability through compounding changes in seasonal precipitation and evaporation

G Konapala, AK Mishra, Y Wada, ME Mann - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Both seasonal and annual mean precipitation and evaporation influence patterns of water
availability impacting society and ecosystems. Existing global climate studies rarely consider …

A reinforcement learning-based metaheuristic algorithm for solving global optimization problems

A Seyyedabbasi - Advances in Engineering Software, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to utilize reinforcement learning in order to improve the
performance of the Sand Cat Swarm Optimization algorithm (SCSO). In this paper, we …

Wide and deep convolutional neural networks for electricity-theft detection to secure smart grids

Z Zheng, Y Yang, X Niu, HN Dai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electricity theft is harmful to power grids. Integrating information flows with energy flows,
smart grids can help to solve the problem of electricity theft owning to the availability of …

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

JK Balch, BA Bradley, JT Abatzoglou… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in
recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in …

Robust statistical methods in R using the WRS2 package

P Mair, R Wilcox - Behavior research methods, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces the R package WRS2 that implements various robust statistical
methods. It elaborates on the basics of robust statistics by introducing robust location …